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To understand why Your Choice Barnet Care Workers are taking strike action
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Employers named and shamed for not paying – a warning for retail.
The government has today named another 37 employers who have failed to pay the proper minimum wage. Between them they owed £177,000 to their workers* This brings the total named this year to 92. It is good to see those who don’t meet the legal minimum requirement being publicly named in this…Read more…
YOUR CHOICE BARNET CARE WORKERS – 9 Point Flyer
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn UNISON members working for Your Choice Barnet (YCB) have just announced their next strike dates as being 22nd and 23rd January. In addition the workers…Read more…
Fracking – over to you!
Some astute politics by Labour and Tom Greatrex MP puts decisions on fracking very firmly in the Scottish Government’s court.
The Smith Agreement proposes the devolution of licences for gas…Read more…
Health & Social Care mergers – Knowledge is Power
My article on the issues and problems that potentially lie ahead for activists and campaigners trying to extract information from the new merged structures providing health and social care in…Read more…
Union offers safety advice to staff following hospital sexual assaults
Thursday 15 January 2015
NHS union UNISON Scotland is advising staff to be more vigilant than normal after two separate incidents of sexual assault at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) in recent weeks.
The union has also contacted employers demanding that specific advice about personal safety and relevant details are shared with local staff to ensure that they are aware of the issue and canRead more…
Stop union busting at the heart of government
Ministers have launched a campaign of union busting at the very heart of government, the UK civil service.Read more…
Isle of Wight Enterprise Zone
Isle of Wight Enterprise Zone discussed with Local Government minister By A County Press reporter Thursday, January 15, 2015 EFFORTS have been made to secure more Government support for the Isle of…Read more…
Charlie Hebdo – the view from NUJ Paris
Two days after the murderous attack at the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, (on Wednesday January 7,) a dignified ceremony took place involving representatives of international journalist…Read more…
Social Care workers Commission – 28 January 2015
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Barnet UNISON has organised Social Care Workers Commission on 28 January 2015 at 6.30, Committee Room 10, House Of Commons.
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Social Care workers Commission – 28 January 2015
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Barnet UNISON has organised Social Care Workers Commission on 28 January 2015 at 6.30, Committee Room 10, House Of Commons.
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GP to put a finger on pulse as General Election hopeful in Oxford West and Abingdon seat
Dr Helen Salisbury is standing for election in the Oxford West and Abingdon seat Picture: OX71789 Julian Rus Dr Helen Salisbury is standing for election in the Oxford West and Abingdon seat Picture:…Read more…
No, I am not ‘Charlie’
NOR ARE MILLIONS OF MUSLIMS TO BLAME FOR A HANDFUL OF KILLERS.
NO, I am not ‘Charlie’. And if this nonsense continues much longer I might have to seriously consider changing my first name!
Unions join condemnations of Thai prison labour plans
The TUC has joined a coalition of 43 union and human rights organisations condemning the regime in Thailand for a planned pilot project recruiting prisoners to fill labour shortages in the…Read more…
Stand Up for Labour: Theatre Royal, Stratford, 9 March 2015
Reserve the evening of 9 March in your diary. It was agreed at tonights West Ham Labour Party Executive to go ahead with a fund raising event at the historic Theatre Royal, Stratford East, West Ham, East London.
Lyn Brown MP will host the event and pr…Read more…
The Real Implications for People and Their Rights After Attack on Charlie Hebdo
France Canadian Articles by TML: Descent into Unprecedented State of Anarchy and Violence – Pauline Easton – As horrendous as the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo was, most alarming is the…Read more…
Core inflation is very far from “relatively stable”
There’s a lot of “good deflation” stories in the media today. (‘Almost certainly’ so, according to the FT.) One of the common themes sets the large fall in headline inflation against a rise on the month in ‘core’ inflation (i.e. inflation excluding energy,…Read more…
Wall Street or Main Street? US Democrats plan ‘high-roller fee’
For years we’ve been told that a Robin Hood Tax in Europe or the UK won’t work because the US will never implement one. That day is, admittedly, still a way off. But this week, senior Democrats in the House of Representatives took a massive step forward, with the senior Democrat on the…Read more…
Cuts are decimating not transforming local government
This is the headline message within an excellent piece on the impact of the cuts and on families in the north east from Gill Hale UNISON northern region secretary. Hale argues ‘Work is no longer a…Read more…
Facebook doesn’t care that “Britain First” is a Hitler Worshipping Cult
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