Agenda item

NOTICES OF MOTION

The following Notices of Motion have been received:-

 

(i)                 Dignity in Social Care - Improving Social Care Services and Jobs

This Council notes with alarm the continuing crisis of social care underfunding that makes it hard for local authorities and provider organisations to ensure decent jobs and quality services.   

 

This Council supports in principle the provisions of UNISON’s Ethical & Residential care charters. The Council intends to implement the charters at the earliest practicable opportunity, recognising that some aspects of the charters may require additional funding.

 

This Council welcomes the additional short term funding that the government pledged for social care in the 2017 budget but notes that this does not go far enough and does not represent a sustainable solution.

 

This Council welcomes UNISON’s Care Workers for Change campaign initiative which aims to expand union membership within the sector to give care workers the support and confidence to lead the public-facing campaign to increase central government funding, improve employee relations and raise standards within the sector. 

 

This Council undertakes to encourage those care providers that we currently commission or purchase provision from and to require those care providers that we commission or purchase provision from in future to:-

 

1)   Respect the right of care staff to organise a union in their workplace and do nothing to undermine the reasonable efforts of staff to organise a union.

 

2)   Allow access to accredited union representatives and officials for membership recruitment activity. Provider organisations should engage positively with union requests for access to staff and, where necessary, agree arrangements that do not disrupt service delivery

 

3)   Pursue a partnership approach to employment relations.  We would expect the provider to engage constructively with the union including a recognition and facilities agreement to underpin collective working.  

 

4)   Work with the providers and unions to pursue our shared objective of achieving the provisions of the UNISON Ethical and Residential Care Charters

 

The Council will write to all current providers of council-commissioned care services at the earliest opportunity to advise them of our expectation that they will comply positively with the above points (1-4). These principles will be enshrined in our future commissioning processes and procedures.

 

In the names of Councillors  P Adams, N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, A Cummings,  E FitzGerald, J Grimshaw, S Haroon, T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, S Kerrison, K Leach, A Mckay, J Mallon, E O’Brien, C Preston, A Quinn, R Shori, A Simpson, R Skillen, S Smith,  Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.

 

(ii)    Public Sector Pay

Council notes the freeze and then cap on public sector pay rises that meant most staff only received an increase of 4.4% from 2010 to 2016, compared to a cost of living increase of 22%. 

 

This Council Meeting believes that the continuation of the public sector pay cap is having an unreasonable effect on the living standards of many public sector staff, and that it is affecting recruitment and retention across the sector.

 

This Council Meeting therefore resolves to ask the Chief Executive to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to request that:


·  the cap is lifted to allow Pay Review Bodies to produce new recommendations and  allow fresh negotiations with employers and worker representative bodies to go forward; and

 
·  subsequent pay increases be fully funded via central government settlement. 

 

 

In the names of Councillors M D’Albert, T Pickstone and S Wright.

 

 

(iii)      Suspension of Bus Lane

 

This Council notes that the suspension of the Bus Lane on Rochdale Road, Bury has resulted in quicker and smoother traffic flows and accordingly resolves to suspend the Bus Lane along Bolton Road, Bury by the 15th January 2018.

 

In the names of Councillors I Bevan, R Caserta, J Daly, I Gartside, D Gunther, M Hankey, J Harris, R Hodkinson, K Hussain, G Keeley, O Kersh, S Nuttall,  I Schofield, D Silbiger,  R Walker, and Y Wright

 

Minutes:

(1)      Dignity in Social Care - Improving Social Care Services and Jobs

 

A motion had been received and set out in the summons in the names of:

 

In the names of Councillors  P Adams, N Bayley, J Black, S Briggs, R Cathcart, A Cummings,  E FitzGerald, J Grimshaw, S Haroon, T Holt, M James, D Jones, J Kelly, S Kerrison, K Leach,  A Mckay, J Mallon, E O’Brien,  C Preston, A Quinn, R Shori, A Simpson, R Skillen, S Smith,  Sarah Southworth, Susan Southworth, T Tariq, J Walker, S Walmsley and M Whitby.                                                                                  

 

It was moved by Councillor Black and seconded by Councillor Whitby:

 

This Council notes with alarm the continuing crisis of social care underfunding that makes it hard for local authorities and provider organisations to ensure decent jobs and quality services.   

 

This Council supports in principle the provisions of UNISON’s Ethical & Residential care charters. The Council intends to implement the charters at the earliest practicable opportunity, recognising that some aspects of the charters may require additional funding.

 

This Council welcomes the additional short term funding that the government pledged for social care in the 2017 budget but notes that this does not go far enough and does not represent a sustainable solution.

 

This Council welcomes UNISON’s Care Workers for Change campaign initiative which aims to expand union membership within the sector to give care workers the support and confidence to lead the public-facing campaign to increase central government funding, improve employee relations and raise standards within the sector. 

 

This Council undertakes to encourage those care providers that we currently commission or purchase provision from and to require those care providers that we commission or purchase provision from in future to:-

 

1)        Respect the right of care staff to organise a union in their workplace and do nothing to undermine the reasonable efforts of staff to organise a union.

 

2)        Allow access to accredited union representatives and officials for membership recruitment activity. Provider organisations should engage positively with union requests for access to staff and, where necessary, agree arrangements that do not disrupt service delivery

 

3)        Pursue a partnership approach to employment relations.  We would expect the provider to engage constructively with the union including a recognition and facilities agreement to underpin collective working.  

 

4)        Work with the providers and unions to pursue our shared objective of achieving the provisions of the UNISON Ethical and Residential Care Charters

 

The Council will write to all current providers of council-commissioned care services at the earliest opportunity to advise them of our expectation that they will comply positively with the above points (1-4). These principles will be enshrined in our future commissioning processes and procedures.

 

On being put to the vote, with 31 voting for, 0 voting against and 16 abstentions including the Mayor, the Mayor declared the motion carried.

 

 

(2)     Public Sector Pay

 

A motion had been received and set out in the Summons in the names of:

 

Councillors D’Albert, Pickstone and S Wright

 

It was moved by Councillor Pickstone and seconded by Councillor D’Albert that:

 

Council notes the freeze and then cap on public sector pay rises that meant most staff only received an increase of 4.4% from 2010 to 2016, compared to a cost of living increase of 22%. 

 

This Council Meeting believes that the continuation of the public sector pay cap is having an unreasonable effect on the living standards of many public sector staff, and that it is affecting recruitment and retention across the sector.

This Council Meeting therefore resolves to ask the Chief Executive to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to request that:

 

·         the cap is lifted to allow Pay Review Bodies to produce new recommendations and  allow fresh negotiations with employers and worker representative bodies to go forward; and

·         subsequent pay increases be fully funded via central government settlement. 

 

On being put to the vote, with 31 voting for, 0 voting against and 16 abstentions including the Mayor, the Mayor declared the motion carried.

 

 

(3)        Suspension of Bus Lane

A motion had been received and set out in the Summons in the names of:

 

Councillors I Bevan, R Caserta, J Daly, I Gartside, D Gunther, M Hankey, J Harris, R Hodkinson, K Hussain, G Keeley, O Kersh, S Nuttall,  I Schofield, D Silbiger,  R Walker, and Y Wright

 

It was moved by Councillor Nuttall and seconded by Councillor Harris that:

 

This Council notes that the suspension of the Bus Lane on Rochdale Road, Bury has resulted in quicker and smoother traffic flows and accordingly resolves to suspend the Bus Lane along Bolton Road, Bury by the 15th January 2018.

 

It was moved by Councillor Quinn and seconded by Councillor Shori  as an amendment to:-

 

Add:- 

 

The Council notes:

·         The A58 (Bury Bridge) is a key route in Bury’s Road Network

·         That the  Mayor of Greater Manchester is currently consulting on a Greater Manchester Congestion Plan with is due to report in March 2018

·         That the Council is currently developing an Air Quality Action Plan (as required by Government) to be submitted to the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs in March 2018

 

This Council notes that although the suspension of the Bus Lane on Rochdale Road, Bury has not resulted in quicker journey times, it has facilitated smoother traffic flows as a consequence of removing the need for motorists to merge into one lane when leaving the roundabout at Heap Bridge and accordingly resolves to:

 

Delete: suspend the Bus Lane along Bolton Road, Bury by the 15th 

 

Add:  in relation to the Bus Lane along Bolton Road Bury to: 

                       

Replace With:

 

1)   Await the completion of the GM Manchester Congestion Plan and the Air Quality Action Plan

2)   Identify the costs associated with the removal of said Bus Lane and relevant consultation required.

3)   Review the information contained in points 1 & 2 and delegate the decision as to the future of the Bus Lane on Bury Bridge to the Cabinet Member for the Environment.

 

On being put, with 28 voting for and 15 voting against and 4 abstentions including the Mayor,  the Mayor declared the amendment carried.

 

On being put, with 28 voting for and 15 voting against and 4 abstentions including the Mayor,  the Mayor declared the substantive motion carried.