Trade Union Facilities for non-schools staff in Manchester City Council. The dataset includes the total number of union representatives, those spending over 50% of their time on union duties, and spending as a percentage of the total pay bill for the 2013/14 financial year. Data is derived from council records on union representatives and assigned cost centre spending.
Use Cases
- Analyze the scale of union representation based on the total number of union representatives.
- Assess the resource commitment to union duties based on the count of representatives devoting over 50% of their time.
- Evaluate financial investment in union facilities based on the percentage of the total pay bill spent.
- Study the composition of union representation based on the named recognized Trade Unions.
Strengths
- Includes specific financial year data (2013/14) for spending calculations.
- Lists the five recognized Trade Unions (UNISON, GMB, UNITE, UCU, UCATT) represented.
- Provides both absolute numbers and full-time equivalent (FTE) counts for union representatives.
Limitations
- Data is specific to the 2013/14 financial year; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Manchester City Council
- Collection Method
- Derived from council records on trade union representatives and spend data assigned to the trade union facilities cost centre.
- Time Range
- 2013/14 financial year
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:31.926241; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Manchester City Council, United Kingdom