Dear Brother/Sister
Industrial action: Introduction of tactical response vehicles with reduced crewing, unsafe changes to standard operating procedures at operational incidents, imposing additional duties on members without agreement and disregard of agreed procedures
Call for Industrial Action
Members have been informed of the result of the ballot for industrial action short of a strike.
As the person authorised to make the call for industrial action, I now confirm that this continuous industrial action will continue unchanged up to and from 08.00 hours on 10 January 2017, ie it will remain as follows:
- A refusal to undertake any variation to members’ usual contracted hours of work. For example, members will refuse to swap a night shift for a day shift or a rota day in order to undertake training etc.
- A refusal to work any pre-arranged overtime.
- A refusal to work any additional hours other than that laid down in a members’ primary contract - for clarity, this involves providing additional hours of work over and above your usual retained or wholetime duty contract for example additional voluntary hours in the Operational Staffing Reserve (OSR) – It does not include those whose primary contract involves being in the OSR.
These are the details which have been determined upon. We hope the matter will be resolved shortly. If not, further details in respect of this ongoing industrial action will be notified once determined. Members are now called upon to continue to take industrial as specified above and any further action to be so notified.
Best wishes.
Yours fraternally
Matt Wrack
General Secretary
MW/DG/jr
