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Trade union facility time
As part of the local government transparency code, councils must publish the following information on trade union facility time:
- trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- total pay bill and facility time cost
- paid trade union activities
Trade union facility time - central function
Barnsley Borough Council (central function employees)
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 22
- FTE trade union representatives: 21.5
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 5 representatives
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 13 representatives
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 4 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £136,723,223
- Total cost of facility time: £174,341
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.13%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 6,350.75 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 507.5 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 7.99%
Trade union facility time - education function
Barnsley Borough Council (education function employees)
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 5
- FTE trade union representatives: 3.55
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 0 representative
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 2 representative
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 3 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £47,347,310
- Total cost of facility time: £120,358
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.25%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 2,662.4 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 0 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 0.0%
Trade unions represented in the council
- AEP
- The ASPECT group of PROSPECT
- GMB
- NAHT
- NASUWT
- NEU
- RCN
- UCU
- UNISON
- Unite
Trade union contact details
GMB
Email andrewsteele@barnsley.gov.uk or call (01226) 772 980.
NASUWT
Email secretary.barnsley@nasuwt.org.uk or call 07825 345947.
NEU
Email selina.hardwick@neu.org.uk, carron.popplewell@neu.org.uk or call 01302 342448.
UNISON
Email branchoffice@unisonbarnsleylg.org or call (01226) 772 988.
Unite
Contact Unite online or call 0114 321 0702.