I was pleased to spend an hour or so on the picket line outside North London Business Park this morning, supporting a mass picket of UNISON members on strike against the wholesale privatisation of Council services being rammed through by a Right-wing Tory Council with a wafer-thin one seat…Read more…
Midwives and radiographers on strike over pay
Midwives and radiographers in Northern Ireland are today on strike over pay. Members of the RCM and SoR are taking action from 8am to midday today, followed by a week’s work-to-rule from…Read more…
Supreme Court rules bosses broke law when they ignored union
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Barnet VOICE – Why we are on strike extra
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Threat of more anti-unions laws – affiliate to Campaign for Trade Union Freedom
Head Office Circular No. NP/078/15/MC To the Secretary all Branches,Council of Executive members,Regional Councils and Regional…Read more…
Civil society groups demand ethical public procurement
UNISON Scotland is involved in launching the new #10Asks on procurement today. Here’s the press release:<!–[endif]–>
Civil society groups demand ethical public procurement
New public procurement rules in Scotland should help tackle
tax dodging, blacklisting and climate change, according to a coalition of civil
society coalitions.
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Proud Union Labour Activists
This collage is from the “Unions together” TULO Rally in London on Monday. Last week Ed Miliband and UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis spoke at the national TULO rally in Birmingham with over 1000 union members present.
General secretary of the G…Read more…
Manufacturing in the balance?
By Philip Pearson of the TUC At the very time when manufacturing should be expanding its share of UK GDP, its contribution is now lower than in 2010. Evidence suggests that our ‘foundation…Read more…
National Express board losing shareholder support over labour rights?
Big news tonight – the FT has reported that the major proxy voting adviser ISS has recommended that shareholders vote FOR Resolution 22 at the National Express AGM next week. PIRC has also recommended a vote in favour.
Resolution 22 calls on the board…Read more…
Manufacturing in the balance?
From the latest official figures, it looks as if manufacturing’s share of GDP is hovvering well below pre-recession levels. A TUC briefing, Manufacturing in the balance suggests that our ‘foundation industries’, the productive heartland of UK manufacturing, are losing businesses and jobs at a…Read more…
Tower Hill to Mayfair, the Message is the Same
WORKERS from London’s Crossrail project where Rene Tkacik was killed last year were among those who gathered by the statue of the Unknown Building Worker on Tower Hill on Tuesday morning, April…Read more…
Stop London’s ‘social cleansing’
Unite Community is launching a London-wide campaign bringing together residents whose estates are threatened by regeneration schemes which divide communities and force families from the areas they…Read more…
Labour’s rural lifeline
Labour has pledged to replace the Agricultural Wages Board with a new taskforce – it revealed yesterday (April 28) in the launch of its new rural manifesto. Outlining how Labour would ensure…Read more…
House of cards
The Tory election campaign has been built on one premise and one premise alone – that it was their government who was responsible for an economy now bouncing back, and that it was their austerity…Read more…
URGENT update – IMPORTANT MESSAGE
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Pensions and infrastructure investment
Scottish pension funds should be used as a force for good as well as delivering high quality pensions for our members.
I was giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Local Government Committee this…Read more…
Examining the reactions to our flagging GDP (a.k.a. the slowest recovery on record ever getting even slower)
A number of themes emerged in the different media commentaries on yesterday’s poor GDP results that are worth further examination: the idea expressed that the figures are highly uncertain and will be heavily revised; that weaker UK growth is in the context of ‘rising instability abroad’ (an…Read more…
Collective Bargaining in Ireland: lessons for Westminster?
29 April 2015
By Michael Doherty, Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law at Maynooth University, Ireland
The voluntarist system of employment relations that exists in Ireland is, of…Read more…
The most important election of a generation
There’s a part every one of us can play in protecting our NHS, jobs and job security and turning around the cost of living crisis – by voting on 7 May.Read more…
Additional support needs are stretched to the limit
#STUC15. Additional support
needs for pupils, particularly those who start at a disadvantage, are stretched
to the limit with children not getting the support they are entitled to.
That
was the concern expressed by UNISON’s Susan Kennedy at the STUC 2015. Susan was speaking in support of an
EIS motion on additional support needs and local authority cuts.
Susan
said ‘Once again,Read more…