Motions for AGM 2008
Honoraria payments
Support staff in schools
Funding crisis in the voluntary
sector
Support for Shelter Scotland affordable
housing campaign
Asylum seeker children
Shift allowance
Reduce child poverty
MOTION 1 - HONORARIA PAYMENTS
In accordance with Branch Rule 12 (iv) Honoraria payments are recommended
to be paid as follows:
Secretary £1736
Treasurer £1163
Assistant Secretary (2) £822 each
Auditors (2) £135 each
Proposed: Branch Committee
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MOTION 2 - SUPPORT STAFF IN SCHOOLS
This AGM believes that the education of our children is of major
importance and that this education should be holistic and should
enable children of every ability to reach their full potential.
It recognises that the staff who support the formal teaching role,
many of whom are UNISON members, have a key role as essential members
of the education team, whether they are nursery nurses, classroom
assistants and SFL auxiliaries, pupil support staff, janitors, technicians
or admin and clerical staff.
However, this is often not reflected in the pay and status of these
roles within schools and these staff are often treated as second
class to teaching staff.
The AGM welcomes the setting up of the Educational Issues Group
in UNISON Scotland, to take forward the issues and concerns of this
group of UNISON members and raise their profile and status. It also
supports the work already done in the branch over the past year
to promote the interest of our members who are classroom assistants
and SFL auxiliaries and janitorial and technical staff, particularly
in relation to single status and equal pay and the modernisation
reviews.
It calls on the branch:
1. to continue this work at branch level to protect the interest
of these and other members in education as appropriate;
2. to encourage further recruitment of members in this sector;
3. to identify, support and provide training for activists amongst
these members;
4. to continue to raise awareness of these issues through the branch
newsletter, website and members meetings etc;
5. to call on UNISON Scotland through the STUC to seek the support
of the Teaching Unions in building on the work already done and
to lobby for proper recognition, pay and status for our members
who support and deliver the Education of Scotland's children.
Proposed Branch Committee
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