AFG: Cancel the Cuts

"As Support Workers, we have gone above and beyond during the pandemic to support some of our community’s most vulnerable residents.

Despite this, our employer Alternative Futures Group (AFG) is proposing drastic cuts to our pay and conditions. This includes sick pay, holiday entitlement, sleep-in pay and bank holiday enhancements. We deserve decent pay and conditions for the exceptional job we do. We need occupational sick pay to protect the health and wellbeing of ourselves and the people we care for. 

We call on our employer, AFG, to stop proposed cuts to our pay and conditions and to pay the Foundation Living Wage to all Support Workers at AFG. 

We call on local authorities that commission AFG to take responsibility for how public funds are being spent, to ensure that our pay and conditions aren’t cut and to improve commissioning standards to ensure all care workers receive decent pay and conditions. 

And we call on members of the public to hold local councillors to account and to stand with us in our campaign for reward and recognition at work".

Say NO to: Attacks on pay and conditions Cuts to occupational sick pay Fire and rehire Profits before people in social care

Say YES to: A Foundation Living Wage Sick pay for all A voice at work through union recognition Publicly delivered social care

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AFG: Reinstate UNISON rep Peter Moorhead and stop victimising trade unionists

AFG: Reverse your immoral decision to make UNISON Convenor Peter Moorhead redundant and stop victimising your employees who are members of trade unions. SIGN PETITION HERE

Why is this important?

I'm Peter Moorhead, I have worked for social care provider AFG for over 20 years.

In 2019, AFG care workers took strike action against our employer because we were not being paid the minimum wage for so-called "sleep in" shifts.

As UNISON's convenor (lead representative) for AFG, I was involved in supporting our members in their fight for fair pay.

AFG did not react positively to the strike action. Recently, I have been informed by AFG that they are going to make me redundant and scrap any provision for a UNISON convenor at the care provider.

We feel that AFG have unfairly selected the UNISON Convenor position for redundancy and that in reality this is about AFG responding to last year's industrial dispute by trying to shut down any worker representation at the organisation.

AFG did not enter into meaningful consultation and their decision potentially amounts to trade union victimisation.

This is bigger than my job though. With over 750 UNISON members working for AFG across the North West, the removal of the position will severely impact on the industrial relation with AFG and also hamper the day to day needs of UNISON members.

Please sign this petition calling on AFG to do the decent thing and reverse their decision to make me redundant.

Thank you for your support, Peter Moorhead (UNISON Convenor- AFG)