Friday, February 16, 2007

Huge Efforts Reach Agreement

The next meeting of the Hera group is next Tuesday on 20th February. Having reduced the number of red circled posts down - so far - to 72 (from 335) we are confident that this part of the process is drawing to a close.

The new grading boundaries and tweaks of the scoring criteria seem to have benefitted the low paid and although this has been a long drawn out process we seem to be on target to ensure the completion of the project.

Parallel with this is the framework terms and conditions and we are still a long way from reaching agreement with management but we are still confident of getting the support side unions together to resist the change of pay date and other awkward terms. A fuller explanation of thios will be made at the next Branch meeting on Wednesday but I also hope to get a local meeting in the very near future but that may be after the 28th - management have held that date for teh conclusion of the framework negotaitions. As always more details can be obtained from either Nick or myself.

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