- Conference
- 2024 Local Government Service Group Conference
- Date
- 23 February 2024
- Decision
- Carried
Conference notes that our members employed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) work tirelessly to ensure the public eats safe and clean meat, dairy and seafood. Our membership is not getting any younger, so we must widen our reach to attract other roles within the Agency.
Conference also notes the contributions of members employed by the contractor Eville & Jones towards protecting the UK from unsafe and unclean meat.
Conference calls upon the Service Group Executive to continue to defend our members’ terms and conditions by:
1) Negotiating for higher wages for our members through collective bargaining;
2) Increasing our profile within the meat and food sector through press communications;
3) Opposing attempts to undermine the roles of our members working in food by promoting the Protect Our Food campaign to decision-makers by holding events and using social media and digital communications;
4) Organising in new areas of the FSA to maintain membership and recruit in non-traditional roles;
5) Organising pay and pension webinars to inform, consult and support our member’s terms and conditions;
6) Benchmarking FSA pay grades against other equivalent regulatory roles;
7) Opposing privatisation and deregulation of meat hygiene inspection.