Water services, local democracy, job evaluation remote working, flexitime, and a union-led campaign for a four-day working week are set to be big issues at Fórsa’s biennial Local Government and Local Services conference, which takes place next Wednesday (12^th May).

Representatives of all Fórsa branches with members in the sector will attend the conference, where union policy is set for the next two years.

Andrew Barnes of the ‘4-Day Week Global’ campaign will speak to delegates from New Zealand, where his company Perpetual Guardian successfully pioneered a four-day week without loss of pay or productivity.

Fórsa has recently written to all city and council managers inviting them to work with the union to pilot similar arrangements in Irish local authorities.

The conference will also hear from Fórsa general secretary Kevin Callinan and the head of the union’s local government division, Peter Nolan.

The proceedings will be live-streamed through Fórsa’s YouTube account and full reports of the conference will be carried in the next issue of this bulletin.

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