About the Branch

• Winning double statutory redundancy as a right.

• Contesting IPSA’s initial attempts to squeeze staff budgets, so now we have automatic annual uplifts and the promise of a wider pay review.

• Campaigning for and receiving House funding for the Employee Assistance Programme helpline.

• Demanding the setting up the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme, which has now seen the first MP lose their seat for bullying their staff.

• Winning equivalent benefits to House staff and mediation rights through the Speaker’s Conference.

• Successfully campaigning against the widespread long-term use of unpaid interns, ensuring that this is now no longer seen as legitimate, and interns should now have paid contracts for limited periods of time.

• Recognition from the Parliamentary Labour Party.

• A Memorandum of Understanding with the House and IPSA, giving us the right to be consulted and a monthly opportunity to raise matters at the House of Commons Commission.

We were the first union to represent MP staff in both Parliament and the constituencies, with a solid track record of winning for members.

The first meeting of the Branch was in 1983 – and its first victory was to secure the first standard Contract of Employment for MPs’ staff.

Read more about the history of the branch.

Our recent achievements include: