- Conference
- 2024 Local Government Service Group Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2024
- Decision
- Carried
Since the establishment of the Scottish Joint Council and National Joint Council agreements, our members have seen significant decline in their terms and conditions, pay and protection arrangements. This may also be the case in other local government bargaining areas.
The decline has resulted in a post code lottery across all local authorities – this calls into question the entire national bargaining structure.
This conference believes that we must act now to establish in the SJC, NJC and other bargaining areas, where possible a national set of terms and conditions and protection provision for all local authority workers.
This conference recognises that there is a need for local determination in some areas where recruitment or retention is a problem, and that branches can seek to improve upon national conditions through local bargaining, however employers have exploited local arrangements to attack terms and conditions and protection arrangements, making cuts by stealth.
Every worker deserves to be treated fairly without fear of losing their job or being forced to accept detrimental changes. These actions disproportionality impact on women and the lowest paid.
This conference calls upon the Local Government Service Group Executive to:
1) Create a data base of terms and conditions variations across employers;
2) Issue a statement condemning these erosions and call for changes with the aim of raising local terms and conditions and protection arrangements up to a national minimum standard;
3) Support both SJC and NJC Committees to take forward a plan to address this national crisis through the bargaining structures;
4) Work with other bargaining groups where similar issues are prevalent.