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Delegates who will soon gather in Liverpool for UNISON Health Conference will be able to celebrate an important victory for UNISON in the health service; the reinstatement of victimised whistleblower, Charlotte Monro.
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National Seats: UNISON NEC Elections 2015
These are the candidates who are standing in UNISON National seats who I would support (including myself of course!)
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UNISON and the future of civil service trade unionism (not)
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Sham consultation
A public consultation on train service cuts in Northern Ireland has been called a sham by Unite, with Translink providing only 12 days for the public to respond, well below the typical 12 week…Read more…
Market competition is stifling vital innovation in our NHS
It is increasingly clear that any government coming into power after the next election will be faced with unprecedented challenges across the NHS. The legacy of five years of government-imposed austerity and top down restructuring is a growing financia…Read more…
End non-dom status call
Ed Miliband and Ed Balls launched their policy on scrapping ‘non dom’ tax status (April 8) to ensure that super-wealthy individuals can no longer avoid paying tax in the UK. There has been…Read more…
Shared Parental Leave: baby steps towards more flexible childcare
Shared parental leave rules designed to help new parents and adopters balance work and caring responsibilities came into effect on Sunday (5 April). But how much difference will they really make?…Read more…
Secrecy, Blacklists and Whistleblowing
THE FIGHT FOR THE NHS
Charlotte Munro, public service whistleblower reinstated. Nice to win sometimes.
MORE questions have been raised than are being answered in the run-up to…Read more…
Unite New Zealand defeats Zero Hour contracts
Restaurant Brands – which owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr and Starbucks chains – has committed to end zero hour contracts by July this year in a new collective agreement negotiated with Unite…Read more…
Don’t let future be mean streets of my past
Lonely Planet/Mirrorpix It was in Bradford that I wounded my spirit in the Great Depression of almost 80 years ago. For me it is a city that contains both wonder and unimaginable…Read more…
Oil deal: jobs alert
As the announcement of a ‘mega merger’ between Royal Dutch Shell and exploration firm BG came yesterday (April 8), Unite has warned against crude cost cutting and job cuts. The merger might be…Read more…
Scottish airport strike continues despite boss’s press plea
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eNEWS 9 April Russell Brand & Strike Update
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Barnet Council workers vote for more strike action
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Everyone should pay their fair share of taxes
Totally and utterly agree. If you want to live in this country and enjoy its rule of law, relative low crime and social cohesion then you should at least pay the same marginal rate of taxation as your cleaner.
If you don’t want to pay this then can we…Read more…
Easter marches draw thousands around Germany:
‘Fascism, never again – war, never again’ People across Germany have taken to the streets, usually of major cities, over the Easter weekend to campaign for world peace. The…Read more…
Exports revolution
A beefed up role for a trade minister with a seat in the cabinet to coordinate and boost UK exports – a central plank of a new report on delivering an export-led recovery – has been welcomed by Unite. Unite echoes the call for a revolution in export culture to boost manufacturing outlined in […]
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‘Totemic’ tax move
As the general election nears, campaign promises are a dime a dozen. Elections are usually a flurry of predictably vague pledges, with politicians revealing just enough of one policy or another but conveniently omitting the fine print. This time round, however, is decidedly different. Labour has hit out with bold, clear policies, and their […]
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87% of UNISON members working for Barnet “easyCouncil” vote YES to strike action.
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NHS squeezing laid bare by top docs
A group of the nation’s senior doctors have come together to deliver a damning indictment of the coalition’s record on the NHS. In a letter published in today’s Guardian, the health professionals conclude that this administration’s record is “characterised by broken promises, reductions in necessary funding and destructive legislation, which leaves health services […]
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