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In our annual awards to recognise and reward the hard work of our union reps in AXA offices across the country the following reps received awards at this year’s AXA reps seminar:

Rep of the Year: Eddy Phillips (Ipswich)
Site of the Year: Morecambe (Lee Brankston, Annie Brownlee, Tom Jackson)
Extraordinary Award: Ann Starkey (Coventry)

Following the sale of the life & pensions businesss to Friends Life, we have a number of vacancies for union reps within the new AXA Wealth operation in Basingstoke and Bristol.

Clearly it is important that we have reps in these areas to help assist the union in any potential forthcoming reorganisation as well as to ensure members concerns in this part of the business are heard.

AXA recognise the importance of the role by providing paid time off for training and between 10 to 25% time off to undertake union duties a week. The skills you learn as a union rep are exteremely helpful from a career development point of view as they cover many that team leaders and managers need to be successful.

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who want to make a their workplace a great place to work in and are prepared to help colleagues resolve any problems they may encounter at work.

If you are interested in finding out more please contact either myself at steve.blease@axa-insurance.co.uk or Steve Gooden at steve.gooden@axa-insurance.co.uk

Please don’t leave this for someone else to do, it is important that some of you step forward and ensure that members in AXA Wealth are fully represented by the union.

Unite is taking airline BMI to court over its failure to honour a negotiated pay rise.

More on this story can be read here.

The TUC’s latest Pensions Watch survey, which analyses the pension arrangements of 329 directors from 102 top UK companies, showed that the average value of a director’s pension was 26 times higher than that of staff.

Also, whilst most companies are moving away from defined benefit schemes for staff, the survey found that nearly two-thirds of companies continue to provide defined benefit schemes for at least some directors.

You can read more on this news item here.

Friends Provident submitted a proposal to the union on Friday 3rd September in respect of pension provision for the 2,000 plus staff transferring to Friends Life on 15th September.

Unite are now considering the proposal and will continue to endeavour to find an acceptable outcome for its members.