Public Works Toolkit

Issues in the campaign

Toolkit contents

• A basic guide to campaigning
• Assessing your campaign: an essential checklist
• Communications: Getting the message across
• Draft Press Release
• How to produce a newsletter
• Political Lobbying

Budgets and cuts

Selected briefings from Bargaining and Campaigns Team – see more on Briefings page

• e-briefing: Scottish Government Programme 2015-16 September 2015
• e-briefing: UK Summer Budget July 2015
• Briefing 67: Policy – Public Libraries Strategy June 2015
• e-briefing: Public Spending Cuts June 2015
• Briefing 65: Policy – Queen’s Speech: UK government programme and Scotland May 2015
• e-briefing: Public services election 7 May 2015 Mar 2015
• e-briefing: Local Government Funding Challenges – Fiscal Affairs Scotland analysis Mar 2015
• MSP e-briefing: Public Services Jan 2015
• e-briefing: Draft Scottish Budget 2015-16 Oct 2014
• e-briefing: Council Tax Freeze 2014 June 2014
• Briefing 44: Policy – Paying for Local Government Nov 2013

Guidance for branches

• Defending council services – needs-based budgets – challenge councils to prepare and publish alternative budgets based on needs
• Reading a council budget – guidance on accessing and making sense of local government accounts
• Job reductions – negotiating guidance– issues and resources when dealing with jb reductions
• Redundancy – legal guidance
• Redundancy – pensions guidance – (to be added)
• Equality duties– guidance on accessing and making sense of local government accounts

Public sector pensions – key facts, challenging the myths

• UNISON Scotland Pensions pages – with articles and links

Recruitment – (to be added)

Keep UNISON informed – Cuts Impact Assessment form 2015
For branches to provide information about cuts to jobs and service so we can target our campaigning (NB Word document – right clickto download – around 1MB)