Recent Current Issues

 

16/06/2011 Why submit a claim in the face of a pay freeze?

Unite reps at the TSA (Tenant Services Authority) have shared with the branch the arguments they have used:
15/04/2011 Unite For Our Society launches support for voluntary sector workers in the form of a new website: www.uniteforoursociety.org

A strong voluntary sector is the foundation for a fair and flourishing society. Yet the very heart of the sector is currently at risk from government cuts, short-term contracts and top-down commissioning structures.

The result is a deeply insecure funding environment, which prevents voluntary sector organisations from best supporting their service users, employees, volunteers or society.

http://www.uniteforoursociety.org/
31/03/2011 Housing workers attended the massive TUC demonstration against the cuts (London 26th March 2011). Click on the PDF to read the Housing Workers Branch Manifesto

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31/03/2011 Changes to Housing Benefit from January 2012

DWP information: The Government is planning to extend the age group for single young people who can only claim a shared accommodation rate to help with their rent (rather than being able to claim for self-contained one-bedroom accommodation). This means you may only be entitled to the lower rate of Housing Benefit for a room in shared accommodation if all of the following apply:

You are a single person
You are occupying one-bedroom self-contained accommodation in the private rented sector
Your Housing Benefit is due to be reviewed from January 2012 onwards
At the date of the review you will be aged 25 or over but under 35 years, and you are not covered by any of the exemptions on sharing accommodation.

The change means that from January 2012 onwards, instead of the one-bedroom self-contained rate as has been notified to you, you would move onto the shared accommodation rate applying at that date, which may be much lower.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk
17/02/2011 What now for trade unions ?

Click on the link below to see all the presentations from the recent Institute of Employment Rights (IER) seminar in Liverpool.
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