E/MS2/3/1

File including correspondence and notes of meetings with National Union of Public Employees [NUPE] and General & Municipal Workers Union [GMWU]; the material is chiefly concerned with budget implications on School Meals Service including increase in school meal charges, reduction in staffing and the introduction of cash cafeteria system in high and upper schools with its implications for Union members; the following are also included:

1979 - 1982

From: 1979 To: 1982

- corrected draft statement of policy on health and safety at work in School Meals Service [c.1979]; - list of school kitchens with staffing problems [1980]; - correspondence with National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers [NAS/UWT] and NUPE regarding lunchtime supervision of children [1981]; - 1981/82 Education Committee revenue estimates; - suggestions of South Bedfordshire Area cooks and cooks supervisors designed to save money, with Local Education Authority response [1982]; - implementation of new basic kitchen establishment scales in traditional and cash cafeteria kitchens [1982]; - invocation of disputes procedure by NAS/UWT regarding reduction in hours of canteen staff in schools [1982]; - agenda for meeting to discuss proposed reductions in 1982/83 budget.

Access to material may be permitted under supervision

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National Union of Public Employees,
National Association of Schoolmasters,
Union of Women Teachers

EDUCATION, school meals, catering, trades unions, employment, industrial relations, business correspondence, political correspondence, National Union of Public Employees, General & Municipal Workers Union, budget, fees/charges, unemployment, cafeteria, high schools, upper schools, business papers, HEALTH & SAFETY, kitchen, National Association of Schoolmasters, Union of Women Teachers, NASUWT, supervisor, sales figures, South Bedfordshire, cook, Local Education Authority, labour disputes, agenda