Wolverhampton Single Status Forum

Single Status Referendum

While recognising the principles of the Collective Bargaining process many Wolverhampton City Council (WCC) employees are not members of UNISON and will therefore have no formal voice in any forthcoming ballot of Trade Union members to confirm or reject the proposed Single Status pay model.

It is felt by many WCC Employees that we have not been provided with a forum to voice our views on the Pay Model or on a number of aspects of the Single Status process which have left many individuals with a poor impression of the Single Status process. Particularly in relation to the inadequate communications to Employees, lack of overall project management and transparency of the results and the process followed to arrive at them. These aspects specifically but not exhaustively include the following.

Poor co-ordination of the mailing of notification letters to WCC employees with the mixed messages on when they would be dispatched and delivered.
Lack of clear arrangements for the handling of the inevitable large volume of queries resulting from the results and and no commitment to a Service Level regarding the closure of those queries
Failure to provide information about the correlation between Single Status points and grades to support the WCC employee in understanding the newly published grade structure.
Failure to provide WCC employees with job trace information or to commit to a timescale in which this will be done
Failure to provide to WCC employees help text guiding them though the job evaluations
Failure to communicate a finalised appeals process to WCC employees with their Single Status results packs.
Failure to create and subsequently respond to a stated Service Level relating to obvious errors in the results
Lack of clarity around the alleged 21% "losers" figure or details of the definition(s) of losers
Conflicting information in issued formal Newsletters and communications to WCC Employees

Amongst a large number of WCC employees there appears to be a growing lack of confidence in the Single Status Scheme and its administration. It is therefore proposed to hold a referendum on this site to capture peoples views of the process and its impact upon themselves and colleagues. We can register our views here and they will then be collated , published on the site and provided to the Chief Executive Richard Carr and the Leader of the Council, Roger Lawrence.

Please take this opportunity to stand up and be counted and to voice your concerns in the only forum available to you. At least we will then know that we have used our combined strength to make our views known about this contentious issue to those in a position of power and with the ability to affect the final outcome.

You will need to register in order to vote.. Please do so, its no good to us if only 20 people bother to register and vote, if you are already registered for the forum you don't need to register again. Tell everyone about this, get them to register, get them to vote. Thanks