Surrey County UNISON branch

Collective Dispute

UNISON met with Colin Rowett (Service Manager) on 26 September 2007 and Tony Draper (Surrey County Council) at Stage 1 of the Collective Disputes Procedure.

UNISON had been approached with a large number of signatures of Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist Assistants, to register their disapproval of the service offered from Surrey County Council's supplier NRS, with a number of problems being documented over a number of years.

This meeting proved to be very constructive as a number of measures had already been put in place to address these problems over the past month.

Communication between Surrey County Council and NRS about the measures taken to address all concerns raised, shall be made available to all staff in the form of a newsletter.  This newsletter will first be discussed with UNISON Stewards, prior to it going out.

In addition, the Managing Director of NRS will meet with UNISON Representatives in three months to discuss business delivery and the improvements that should have been made.

In six months, a review of the service will be done with Surrey County Council and UNISON.

With a satisfactory reply from Management at this meeting, the Formal Procedure for Collective Disputes were withdrawn at Stage 1.

Andy Pattinson, Service Conditions Officer