Organisations generally want to celebrate their successes. A bit of boasting burnishes an organisation’s public image, as well as boosting the reputations of its staff, management, and promoters….Read more…
Unison Executive Committee Officerships
The branch has opportunities to serve on its Executive committee for the following posts:- Women’s Officer International Relations Officer Membership & Recruitment Secretary Youth Officer (must be aged under 27) Treasurer Auditors x 2 Black Members’ Officer LGBT Officer –…Read more…
Sign Petition Opposing Cuts In Further Education
A message from the Principal at Stoke-On-Trent College: Please find below a link to a petition in response to the decision of the government to cut the English adult further education budget for 2015/16, once funding for apprenticeships is excluded, … Continue reading →Read more…
“…thieves and con merchants to steal and feast upon our members pensions…”
This was my speech to the UNISON Community Conference yesterday on Pensions. The Composite motion had been moved by Community member June Poole from Rochdale Local Government Branch on behalf of National Women’s Committee.
It was very positive to see…Read more…
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Securing the Right to Strike: ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association
Colleagues,
Buy it: Read itIn his lifelong analysis of industrial conflict and strike action the eminent industrial relations academic Richard Hyman was attempting to tackle his central concern around the relationship between industrial action and class consciousness. This analysis is…Read more…
Speech: Scotland No 2 Branch AGM
Thank you for this opportunity to address your AGM. I want to makes some observations on the political situation, the unions work on organising, and our work on proportionality. This year is…Read more…
A Living Wage is a Right
Regardless of the amount of value created, a Living Wage should be made a constitutional Right. It is not a question of a job being sacrificed, as justification for low pay, sustainable jobs…Read more…
UNISON Community Conference 2015
On the train back to London with UNISON delegates after our annual National Seminar and Conference in Bradford. See previous posts on the Seminar which took place immediately before here and here.
The Conference was chaired by UNISON Vice Presid…Read more…
IOW Education; The Academy Trust has specific Strategy and Tactics, so must the Teachers.
What is becoming clear is that the Academy Trust has specific strategy and tactics in light of the national failures of the Academy arrangements. The Gove strategy was to continue support of…Read more…
Survey Highlights Plight of Teachers:
The excessive workloads and working hours facing teachers in the UK have been clearly established in figures published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to mark its annual Work Your Proper Hours…Read more…
John Pilger: The Menace of Fascism
By John Pilger Global Research, February 26, 2015 The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our…Read more…
The East Coast Mainline: Why was the government so quiet about one of its great successes?
Organisations generally want to celebrate their successes. A bit of boasting burnishes an organisation’s public image, as well as boosting the reputations of its staff, management, and promoters. Some organisations even celebrate their failures. The Royal Bank of Scotland, majority owned by the UK…Read more…