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Trade union facility time

Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017

The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 came into force on 1st April 2017. These regulations place a legislative requirement on relevant public sector employers to collate and publish a range of data on the amount and cost of facility time within their organisation, annually.

The data must be broken down into Central Function and Education Function employees.

Data for Bury Council from April 2023-March 2024 (published July 2024) is detailed on this page.

Total number of staff who are union reps

Total Number of staff (in all Council services and schools) (absolute and Full Time Equivalent (FTE)) who are union representatives (including general, learning and health and safety representatives).

Union rep numbers and details
Union Paid reps Hours / year FTE
NAHT (National Association of Head Teachers) 1 247 0.2
NEU (National Education Union) 1 988 0.78
ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders) 0 0 0
NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers) 4 988 0.78
GMB 0 0 0
Unite 0 0 0
Unison 15 5858.93 3.56
Total 21 8081.93 5.32

Basic estimate of spending on unions

  • Total number (absolute and full time equivalent) of union representatives who devote at least 50 percent of their time to trade union duties:
    • Total number of staff: 4
    • Full time equivalent: 3.78
  • A basic estimate of spending on unions (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties by authority staff that spent the majority of their time on union duties multiplied by the average salary): £125,280.16
  • A basic estimate of spending on unions as a percentage of the total pay bill (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties by authority staff that spent the majority of their time on union duties multiplied by the average salary divided by the total pay bill): 0.07 percent
  • Average salary: £33,142.90
  • Total pay bill: £167,913,197.86

Unions represented

Names of all trade unions represented in the local authority:

  • Unison
  • Unite
  • GMB
  • AEP
  • NEU (NUT) and NEU(ATL)
  • NASUWT
  • ASCL
  • ATL
  • NAHT