The Ministry of Defence has agreed to the unions’ request to use Acas, the conciliation service, to break the deadlock over pay for 2019.
>Labour parliamentary candidate, Ian Mearns, who is standing again in the Gateshead seat that he has represented since 2010, was the guest speaker at Prospect’s Education and Children’s Services professional seminar in late November.
>Sector president Richard Clatworthy explains why he believes our Dignity at Work Charter for the energy sector is so timely and important.
>Members working for the Environment Agency in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, the East and West Midlands and Northamptonshire have suspended their industrial action.
>Prospect members in the British Library have rejected their pay offer for 2019/20.
>BT must be more transparent with employees about how it will reduce its estate from more than 300 locations to around 30.
>Prospect members in the Metropolitan Police Service have voted to accept their pay offer for 2019.
>Sector president Richard Clatworthy explains why he believes our Dignity at Work Charter for the energy sector is so timely and important.
>Prospect is balloting members in Guernsey who are on Agenda for Change contract terms on a revised pay offer for 2019.
>Prospect reps at the James Hutton Institute met Scotland’s deputy first minister, John Swinney, to discuss the proposed redundancies at the Institute, the impact on staff and the organisation and the financial challenges it faces.
>Prospect, the independent union for Professional Referees in Scotland, is appalled by media reports that a referee may have been targeted with threatening messages.
>Prospect is trying to reach agreement with Highways England on proposals for new working patterns.
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