Sorry itts a quick fire posting to close what has been another extraordinary week which has largely been taken up with the Sodexo CRC and EVR issues that I have been covering of late. I was nevertheless able to make a visit to speak with Western Branch members today in Bath which was both a pleasure and a privilege and I am really grateful for the hospitality shown to me and the positive feedback about what Napo are actually doing on their, and your, behalf.
But back to Sodexo, where the probation unions focus this past week has been about making it clear that we expect any announcement by Sodexo next week (over their EVR offer) to be 'without prejudice' to negotiation and consultation with members. The NNC Joint Secretaries have endorsed this view, but how this will square with the way in which Sodexo do business with other unions in their empire is anyones guess at the moment, but there again Napo are not just any union.
We need a structured set of negotiations so that we can seek out answers to the many questions we are receiving about EVR and the associated job cuts. We can then put a negotiated offer, if that indeed proves possible, out to members for consultation so that they can decide on whether or not it is acceptable.
Thats the dignified way to deal with serious issues such as this, as opposed to communication techniques that seek to sideline the National Collective Bargaining Machinery and treat the unions as an irritating irrelevance.
We are definitely the former, but will never be the latter.
Have a great weekend.
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