Welcome to UNISON Highland Branch Website
WELCOME to our website. UNISON Highland Branch represents Highland Council Staff, Further Education Support Staff, Highlands & Islands Fire Rescue Support Staff, Highlife Highland and Community and Voluntary Organisations in and around Highlands and Islands. We negotiate with employers on pay, terms and conditions, and assist members with work issues including grievances and disciplinary, bullying, and health and safety matters.
UNISON is Britain's biggest public service union, representing more than 1.3 million people across the UK's public services.
On this site you can:
- get help and advice
- contact the branch office
- find out about joining UNISON
- check up on branch news and events
- update your membership details
- connect to UNISON nationally and other useful links
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Getting Poorer
Wages for workers in public services have been frozen. Prices have not. You don’t need a Nobel prize in economics to work out that means living standards for workers in public services have been going down. When you factor in that inflation bites harder on the lower paid, unavoidable essentials have been rising at higher rates than the headline rate of inflation and there have been sharp increases in charges for the public services that UNISON members use as well work in. It’s a pretty bleak picture.
Of course the view from the boardroom is significantly better, FTSE 100 directors managed an average 12% last year meaning they have an average package of £4.8m a year...and the richest in Britain , have quite literally, never been richer. So the idea that public services and the living standards of those who provide them need to decline is about as true as the statement “ We're all in this together”
We won’t get a significant economic recovery without increasing demand in the economy..and wage rises for workers in public services are an effective way of doing that. Melting the pay freeze is necessary, fair and makes economic sense. More on all this here.
THE DATE OF NEXT YEARS AGM IS SATURDAY 8TH MARCH 2014.
The amount you pay to join depends on your salary, please see the table below for the monthly cost:
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Monthly cost |
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Up to £2,000 |
£1.30 |
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£2,001 - £5,000 |
£3.50 |
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£5,001 - £8,000 |
£5.30 |
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£8,001 - £11,000 |
£6.60 |
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£11,001 - £14,000 |
£7.85 |
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£14,001 - £17,000 |
£9.70 |
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£17,001 - £20,000 |
£11.50 |
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£20,001 - £25,000 |
£14.00 |
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£25,001 - £30,000 |
£17.25 |
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£30,001 - £35,000 |
£20.30 |
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Over £35,000 |
£22.50 |
Northern Ireland membership rates do not have contributions towards political funds and start from £1.22 a month.
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