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Social Work Stewards' Committee Meeting 10/05/04, 9.30am, Conference
Room, Shrubhill Present K Hey VSSWC, R Johnson Regent Road SWC,
B Carbis Leith SWC, G Corbett Bonnington Resource Centre, L Williams Working Together,
J McBride Regent Road SWC, M Kinghorn MBG SWC, Andrew Reeves WGH SWC, A Laughland
CR SWC, A Goswell Shrubhill, I McAdam Regent Road SWC, A Cochrane Muirhouse Crescent
SWC, P Yates WPG SWC, M Tweedie Social Care, D Hall Drylaw YPC, E Wishart Branch
Office, H Manclark Craigmillar C&F Centre, J Murray Oxgangs Path SWC Apologies J
Black, C Grant Restructuring of Social Work Department
- meeting last week - L Williams, J Stevenson, K Hey, C Grant, E Wishart
discussed proposals for action
- some people would prefer a one day strike
with selective action
- want to involve health and education
- John
Ross will meet with Jim Inch to inform him of potential action
- many issues
at the moment eg council housing sell-off, departments being reorganised - ?council-wide
strike
- Revenues & Benefits on verge of strike
- not just about
SW Dept - about whole council way of working - call centres etc
- will have
major impact on admin and community care
- "bits that don't fit" - likely
PPP
- AGM called for joint stewards' meeting with housing and education
- ?
arrange special general meeting
- ? set up broader action committee
- emergency
cover - where is it needed? who provides it?
- health and social care -
?becoming a not for profit trust
- people angry and confused - feel it's
going to happen anyway
- members aware of media attitude to SW Dept
- need
to make it clear the department needs us
- check the SSSC Code of Conduct
- employers' responsibilities
- we need a clear strategy
- how do
we deal with unallocated work? - pass it back to Shrubhill or to councillors?
- important
to get across the need for improved services
- make it clear we are not
against appropriate change
- ?need a public meeting with members from all
departments
- point out cost of war in Iraq and financial implications for
public services
- use public sympathy for health and education
- how
much do health and EIS members understand? Need time for them to get up to speed
- what
do we want to achieve?
- we want resources
- we want council plans
to stop or change
- we want to protect the public and ourselves
- we
want to make a public statement
- no council decision is irreversible
- consultation
was bogus
- we want a list of which way which councillors voted
- members
should target councillors and MSPs
- draft letter to be drawn up - Elaine,
Barry and Kirsten
- have a rally and make it visible - get support from
nursery nurses
- ask Branch Committee to arrange a joint meeting for affected
departments
Votes - to ballot for a half day
strike with rally -unanimous
- to ballot for passing unallocated work back
up - carried all in favour except 2 abstentions
- to ballot for immediate
walk out if members disciplined for refusing to carry out work as instructed -
unanimous
- to request Branch Committee to propose disaffiliation from the
Labour Party - unanimous
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