Stop the Unfair Winsor Report Recommendation: Removal of Weekend Premium

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This affects every single police force in the UK - Please Sign to try to protect  Police Staff.


The Winsor Report has set out some traumatic recommendations for Police Staff who work regular shifts. Basically, amongst the recommendations is one that states that Police Staff should lose the premium for weekend working if it is part of their accepted shift working hours.

In Greater Manchester Police this includes the 999 call handlers, the Radio Dispatchers , the Crime Scene Examiners, PCSO's and many others that Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary recognise as front line services.

To put this into perspective a Communications Supervisor on top of Grade F will lose 14.69% of their pay or £3697.

A Radio Despatcher dispatcher on top of Grade E will lose £3348.02

A Call Handler on top of Grade D will lose £2975.64 this will be on top of the two year pay freeze.

Other Police Staff Roles depending on their grading and premium rate will lose similar amounts. Overtime payment rates are also being cut.

But think on this:

This is not the fault of the Chief Constable or the Police Authorities, this is the fault of a government that promised to be strong on Law and Order yet has imposed cuts that are supposed to protect the front line policing but will in effect lead to less bobbies on the beat.

Firstly these recommendations if accepted could lead to industrial action, which will mean officers will have to leave the beat to staff the control rooms. The first point of contact for any member of the public is now normally a police staff member if they're not there, Chief Constables have no choice but to fill the control rooms with officers off the beat.

Secondly, if imposed these cuts would lead to an exodus in staff as they seek work that is either less demanding and remunerated fairly or just to find a wage that will allow them to feed, house and care for their families.

Thirdly, and more divisively , The Winsor report recommends that Police Officers who work shifts should also be paid an extra 10% for working those shifts. Their pay was historically already set at a level to remunerate them for shifts. However, most Police staff do not begrudge them extra pay . What is unfair is that the Winsor report wants to increase a PC's pay who works along side a Police Staff member, doing exactly the same job in the control rooms whilst cutting the pay of the Police Staff member.

 The report is supposed to ensure these three things:

• Ensure that pay and conditions maximise officer and staff deployment to frontline roles where their powers and skills are required


• Provide pay and conditions that are fair and reasonable for taxpayers, police officers and staff


• Enable modern management practices in line with practices elsewhere in the public sector and the wider economy
  
  This review is obviously failing in all three areas just by including this one recommendation.
  
  Please sign the petition and send it on to contacts in all the forces you can think of. Please cut and paste this into an email to your local MP!  (You can find your MP's Contact details here  )
  I would like to reiterate this is not aimed at Chief Officers or other Police Officers it is aimed at the unfair recommendations made and is an attempt to show that they would be disastrous to the Police Service as a whole and Police Staff in particular and to stop the unfair recommendations being accepted by the Home Secretary.


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I have hidden the signatures on receipt of good advice.
Here are a selection of comments. 

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These are the Forces I have counted as signed so far.


Stop Press :Winsor Report Part 2 will now be Jan 2012 not June 2011.
 http://review.police.uk/documents/police-remun-and-conditions/part2-timing
Why I wonder?


UNISON have asked me to point out that they are not affilliated with this petition that this petition guaranteees nothing. That is, that even if it does reach 100,000 signatures, it might not change anything. Also that strike action would only be lawful if organised through a ballot through them. 
In the interests of openness I have included this comment.