Petition – Alternative Futures Group

Colleagues

Alternative Futures Group (AFG) is a major North West provider of care services for adults with learning disabilities and employs around 700 UNISON members.

AFG is planning to remove top-up payments for staff working sleep-in shifts from January 2019.  This will amount to a loss of up to £90 per week for AFG’s dedicated care workers and take those workers to below National Minimum Wage rates for sleep-ins.  

UNISON NW is currently in dispute with the employer and will shortly launch a consultative ballot for industrial action.

We have also launched a petition (click on link below) and ask that you please sign and circulate as widely as possible.

https://campaign.goingtowork.org.uk/petitions/care-at-night-pay-us-right

Care At Night, Pay Us Right! AFG are planning to remove top-up payments for staff working sleep-in shifts from January 2019. This will amount to a loss of up to £90 per week for AFG’s dedicated care workers, this means that we could stand to lose up to £4500 per year. AFG staff work incredibly hard to deliver top quality care, day and night, and this includes so-called “sleep-in” shifts. When we work sleep-ins, we will often be up throughout the night delivering care, spending the night away from our own homes and… campaign.goingtowork.org.uk