nick venedi

Saturday 3 September 2011

Local government conference on pensions?

There is a debate going on between some who think that a special conference on local government conference should be called by Unison to consider what action to take against government decisions to impose major changes to the pension scheme.

Some on on NEC are having the discussion online and are expressing their opinions in their respective blogs. There are those with blogs on the NEC and others who aspire to be on it. Nothing wrong with that.

My take on the idea of a special conference is that a big gathering so soon after the last national conference will not have much more to say than what's been said already? Would it not be beter for Unison to do the followinig insted?

1. Have intensive talks with GMB and Unite for coordinated action;
2. Agree a programme of action;
3. Go ahead with selective action throughouot the country which would involve members from all 3 major unions;
4. Get on with it before its too late..

I feel that decisions have already been made and that the next stage is to continue the action that was taken on the 26 March and 30 June otherwise we had those two days in isolation (30 of June didn't really involve Unison) and members might think that we are not too good at following a strategy? And if members think that what would Tory boy Cameron and the others think..















2 comments:

  1. Maybe the point is if unison were doing those points you suggest, we wouldn't need a conference?

    Reality is they are not and especially in LG are failing to protect our pensions so we need to use our lay democracy to instruct them to get off their arse

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  2. Hi Rosa

    Well as far as I understand it (from info on other blogs) the conference dealt with the matter and decisions were made. If you are now saying that no action has been taken since then then there is an argument for holdinng another big meeting to get things moving, so yes I would agree with that.

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