ISU Membership Circular 19.6.18 Dear Member, Membership Benefits The ISU is the only Trade Union to offer compensation should you lose your shift pay as the result of absence.  This applies regardless of what type of shift pay you receive. This is a very real and important support to members at [...]

ISU Membership Circular 29.5.18 Dear Member,   Hugh Ind The ISU is very saddened to see Hugh leave Immigration Enforcement.   We have had an immensely productive relationship with IE as a result of his, and Tony Eastaugh’s, leadership.  Very difficult times have been navigated with far better results than anticipated, largely [...]

ISU Membership Notice 21.05.2018 - GDPR Dear Member, It can hardly have escaped your notice that the way companies handle data is changing.  This includes how Home Office handle your data, and how we do. We have experienced some delays in getting finalised.  Formal notices and further information will be circulated [...]

ISU Membership Circular 03.05.2018 Dear Member, Blaming Officials for enacting Policy? 2 weeks ago Amber Rudd suggested that members were in some way at fault for what the press has come to call the “Windrush Scandal”.  The NEC sought urgent reassurance from Ms Rudd’s office and from the Perm Sec that [...]

ISU Membership Circular 20.04.18 Dear Members, You will all have seen this week’s appalling revelations about the Windrush Children issue. We have been left reeling in horror at the shameful injustices inflicted on people this nation owes a debt of thanks. Our thoughts are very much with those unjustly deprived of [...]

ISU Membership Circular 20.03.18 - Conference Special *Technical Glitch – Some of you may have received an email from a version of the ISU website asking you to register your user account. We can confirm this was not a spam email but was sent in error from a new ISU site [...]

ISU Membership Special 06.03.18 Dear Members, We have for some time now been reflecting our serious concerns that operational conditions within Border Force are compromising national security while posing serious and growing risk to the health and welfare of ISU members. In our judgement things are only growing worse and matters [...]

ISU Membership Update 20.02.18 - ISU Membership Subscriptions Dear Members, The NEC have reluctantly decided that our Union needs a significant rise in membership subscription rates and will be placing a motion before our National Conference in March seeking approval for that. We recognise this may prompt concerns and think it [...]

ISU NEC Election Special - 30.1.18 Dear Members, Following the recent election for four positions on the ISU National Executive Committee, the results are as follows as per the Independent Scrutineer’s report: “IMMIGRATION SERVICE UNION INDEPENDENT SCRUTINEER’S REPORT (TRADE UNION AND LABOUR RELATIONS (CONSOLIDATION) ACT 1992 AS AMENDED) This report is [...]

ISU Membership Update 26.1.18 - ISU Diary Dear Members, I appreciate it’s still only January and we’re only just acclimatised to the idea of 2018……but already we have to turn our minds to ordering our 2019 ISU Diaries from the suppliers. We’ve given you all an ISU diary each year for as long [...]

ISU Enforcement Circular 15.1.18 Dear Member, ISU Enforcement Sub-Committee Just a short note to let you all know that we are at last in a position to re-implement the ISU Enforcement Sub-Committee (the delay has been interminable for a variety of reasons, but at least we’re there now) and as such [...]

ISU Membership Circular 21.12.17 Dear Members, And so another eventful year comes to a close. There have been victories – the PDR system finally changed – as there have been setbacks, none more so than the continued absence of a meaningful pay rise. We will be campaigning strongly for Fair Pay [...]

ISU Election Bulletin 12.12.17 Dear Members, Further to our recent bulletin regarding elections for posts both as a National Officer and those on the National Executive Committee, I am pleased to report that I have today received confirmation from Popularis Ltd that Mark Gribbin has been returned in the ISU National Officer role [...]