News for Members of the East Midlands Gas (Southern) Branch

CBS Consultation Update 03/09/2020

British Gas Proposed Changes to Terms and Conditions Negotiations Update

UNISON has now concluded its consultative survey of members in British Gas on the key questions of support for industrial action. Thank you for taking time to complete the survey which has demonstrated again, that members are resolute in lending support to an industrial action ballot of UNISON members in response to the issuance of […]

British Gas Proposed Changes to Terms and Conditions Negotiations Update 08/20

We have now received the full set of proposals from the business and although some detail is still lacking, we have enough information to be clear about what the impact is on you as an employee of British Gas and a UNISON member The summary of the main proposals is on the second page of […]

Update for British Gas Members

 Support available to our members throughout the negotiations 07/20

British Gas Negotiations Update

The first set of meetings took place this week between the trade unions and the business to discuss company proposals to attack member’s terms and conditions of employment. The business spent time at the meetings outlining why it needed to make sweeping changes. These reasons largely related to the financial state of the business. We […]

East Midlands Gas (Southern) Branch Update

The Branch has now held two stewards’ meetings following the company’s announcement of some 5,000 redundancies and they are signalling that they want to change terms and conditions of employment. In addition to which the Branch has been represented at the British Gas sector committee meetings. The union will be undertaking a significant amount of […]

British Gas Member Survey Result

Please see below newsletter for latest update from UNISON members working in British Gas British Gas Newsletter 01/07/2020

Further Update on British Gas Annoucement

Please see below bulletin that has been sent to all members working for British Gas BGnews06iii0620 (004)

Further Update on British Gas Annoucement

The trade unions met with the business again today to talk through yesterday’s announcements. It was unfortunately another disappointing meeting and the business failed to give any clarity to the messages it launched yesterday. Full Statement can be found below; Full Statement

Company Announcement on Job Reduction

You will no doubt be aware by now of the company’s announcement – widely covered in the media, and through the so called Town Hall meeting conducted by Chris O’Shea the CEO – in respect of some 5,000 job losses within the company. Alongside which the company has announced its intention to look at changing […]