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 Council (central function employees)
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 18
- FTE trade union representatives: 17.54
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 4 representatives
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 11 representatives
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 3 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £116,670,987
- Total cost of facility time: £134,945.27
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.12%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 6029 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 390 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 6.47%
Education function
Barnsley Council (education function employees)
1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 4
- FTE trade union representatives: 3.55
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 1 representative
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 1 representative
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 2 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £42,820,538
- Total cost of facility time: £111,633.34
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.26%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 2603 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 73 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 2.8%
Trade Union contact details
GMB
Email anngallagher@barnsley.gov.uk or call (01226) 772 980.
NASUWT
Email secretary.barnsley@nasuwt.org.uk or call 07825 345947.
NEU
Email margaret.baggley@neu.org.uk or call 07478 282692.
Unison
Email branchoffice@unisonbarnsleylg.org or call (01226) 772 988.
Unite
Contact Unite online or call 0114 321 0702.