Branch Meeting Minutes - Friday 16th July @ TGWU

Branch Meeting was held at 2pm on Friday 16th July at TGWU Transport House.

Mike Dyer and Dave Knight chaired the meeting and the following was discussed:

Pension ballot

We discussed the work that has gone on so far, and explained that we have had a meeting with the company where an offer was tabled, the actual offer was not discussed, as we explained that we had a number of issues with the offer, mainly that we needed more money on the table. The next meeting is 5th August, with the next senior rep meeting on 6th August. If the offer is not acceptable, the Industrial Action ballot will continue.

ITS Pay

Situation so far - we started out with 0% for majority, 30% of staff would get some payrise depending on their objectives/ratings. We negotiated up to 0.5% and this was rejected by staff at an earlier meeting.

We had a meeting earlier today, with ITS HR and have managed to negotiate 1.5% as a percentage on your salary from August payroll. On-call and overtime rates would be increased and all pay would be backdated to January.

This was accepted within the meeting.

After the meeting we took a poll from members who could not attend the meeting, and was accepted by the majority of staff - the 1.5% pay offer was accepted,and ITS HR and Finance have been advised of the change.

We also advised members that we have been discussing the bonus rules / criteria for this year, and at the moment this could mean a similar situation to the 2009 bonus (paid Feb 2010), where Application Services did not meet their targets, and therefore staff got no bonus. Other ITS staff included did get a bonus, and ITS HR have taken our arguments for change away and will advise.

Len McCluskey

We then discussed the regional secretary nomination, and discussed with staff why we think that Len would be a good candidate. Members agreed with us, and the nomination has been sent off.