Circular No IR/04/15 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR1/14/18th January 2015 Dear…Read more…
Interserve Strike Action
From RMT Press Office.
Rail union RMT said today that a further phase of strike action by cleaners working for Interserve at Waterloo, due to start tomorrow at 5am, has been suspended to allow…Read more…
Myth-busting or diversion? HSE looking in all the wrong places
There is a new report out on health and safety myths. It is a review of all the cases that have been referred to the Mythbusters Panel which the HSE set up a few years ago to challenge health and…Read more…
Oh Balls
Here’s how the Grauniad is reporting Ed Balls’ refusal to commit to end the pay freeze or the spending cuts in local government.
http://gu.com/p/44j5xLabour’s pledge to match Tory spending plans in the first year of a Labour Government makes such a Go…Read more…
Fresh start or same old story? Three resolutions for a wage-led recovery in 2015
George Osborne’s Autumn Statement [has] opened up a “huge choice in British politics,” according to the TUC’s Frances O’Grady, “between radical cuts and pay freezes versus investment for the…Read more…
Organising workers and the question of race
Within recent memory part of the substantive debate around trade unions and equality was centred on the question of the extent to which white workers were seen to benefit from racism and working…Read more…
NEC Elections 2015: Community General Seat & Female Seat Nomination Request
I posted last week that this is the Labour movement election season with my election address for the UNISON Greater London Regional Finance Convenor position. Yesterday evening I send out nomination requests for the UNISON NEC elections (see below). I …Read more…
Barnet UNISON response to outsourcing Library proposal
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee 28 October 2014 Libraries Strategy report made the following recomendation within this report…Read more…
Excellence!
WAY TO GO! DUE soon to have more time for his grandchildren, Steven Jefferys can bow out with pride in his department’s work.
ALMOST two years ago we were supporting staff at the London…Read more…
Barnet UNISON Service Improvement Plan
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5 January 2015.
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The Tory “cap” that is not what it seems
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30662833
Today was my first day back at work for an organisation facing the prospect of further redundancies following the loss of a thousand jobs since the last General Election.
There are three things to be said ab…Read more…
Rail campaigners protest New Year fare rise and call for public ownership
On 2 January 2015, rail passengers were greeted with yet another wage-busting fare-rise. Union activists and campaigners gathered at London King’s Cross station to protest the unnecessary…Read more…
Reclaim the Union National Meeting
Having enjoyed a festive break, your blogger is back for 2015 and looking forward to… Reclaim the Union National Meeting
Saturday 17th January, 2pm to 5pm
The Mechanics Centre
103 Princess St
Manchester M1 6DD There will be a pooled f…Read more…
Iraqi unions are still demanding better
Despite the impact of the ISIS insurgency, workers across Iraq staged several industrial actions from the end of October, through November and into the first part of December, and returned to the…Read more…
Power to the people: Trade unions, energy and climate change
At the end of this year, the countries of the world will meet in Paris under the auspices of the United Nations in a make or break effort to curb global warming by reaching a binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The preparatory COP 2…Read more…
Happy New Year
I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.Read more…
New Year message for Barnet UNISON members
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Double whammy for the underpaid and underemployed
Despite talk of economic recovery, more people than ever are looking for extra hours to make ends meet, and the trend towards underemployment shows little sign of slowing. To make matters worse, the…Read more…
Learning & Organising in Greater London UNISON 2015 (defend members & fight union busters)
If you are a London UNISON activist then download our training programme and application form for 2015 courses. I will be applying to go on the refresher steward course this year (under the Employment Rights Act unions are obligated to make sure that t…Read more…
Barnet Council response to UNISON 13 Questions on privatisation plans
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