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As a UNISON member resident in a marginal constituency I today received a letter from our General Secretary encouraging me to vote in the General Election and warning me of the plans the Tories have for our …Read more…
100 reasons to check out Barnet.
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn In Barnet over the past 6 years there has been some major changes to Council services. Here are 100 links to a variety of video clips, short films, songs…Read more…
Part 2 – A Brief History of Public Housing
The Right to Housing Is an Election Issue Part 2 – A Brief History of Public Housing Public housing in Britain has a long history stretching back to the 19th Century. The steep rise in the population…Read more…
Easter Saturday at Ilford North
Picture collage is from this afternoon’s campaigning for Wes Streeting as the future Labour MP for Ilford North.
We had 5 West Hammers (and 1 East Hammer) with us while Walhamstow PPC, Stella Creasy, was also there with her local activists to support …Read more…
The Essence of Community-Centred Health, is a Programme of Creeping Privatisation:
The source of Community-Centred Health and well-being is the NHS Executive itself. Public Health England is an agency of the Department of Health. Signatories to their report published in 2015, are…Read more…
Labour’s Manifesto For Britain’s Workplaces
Here is an edited version of Labour’s ‘A Better Plan For Britain’s Workplaces’, produced by Unite. The central task for the next Labour government is to build an economy that creates better and more…Read more…
Sacked union leader reinstated after health trust u-turn:
First published Wednesday 1 April 2015 in Waltham Forest Guardian Last updated 12:12 Thursday 2 April 2015 by Zoie O’Brien, Reporter, covering Walthamstow, Leyton and Leytonstone. Sacked union…Read more…
ISDS – a corporate power grab
#NoTTIP One of the most pernicious measures in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) which empowers corporations to go to…Read more…
Latest on US Oil Strikes: Five Plants Still On Strike.
Just got this from the USW: From Dave Martin of USW Local 8-719 at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Catlettsburg, Kentucky: “Contract passed. We will start the process of returning to work Monday…Read more…
Good news for Good Friday and maybe a good beginning
IT’S good news for the Easter weekend, and for the end of the Persian Spring festival Nawroz. A great power agreement with Iran has been reached, providing for limits on the country’s nuclear energy…Read more…
Key questions in The Public Services Election
In the third of a series of articles, UNISON Scottish Secretary Mike Kirby lays out UNISON’s plan to get our members’ issues at the centre of the election debates.
"This is the Public Services Election. The outcome will have a huge impact upon UNISON members, their families, communities and the public services in which we work, to protect the disadvantaged and provide a better quality of lifeRead more…
Teachers to ballot for strikes over school funding
By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Teachers are threatening to take strike action over school funding Teachers are set to call for a ballot on national strikes amid a growing row over…Read more…
Human Rights Is an Election Issue
Included in RCPB(ML)’s call for the May 7 General Election is that the electorate should vote for candidates who stand for the rights of all. This is a very serious issue. Rights can not be given…Read more…
Why is teaching the most unionised job?
Sean Coughlan Education correspondent BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32116168 Teachers are more likely to be in unions than transport staff or mine workers Why is education the most…Read more…
Walk of Witness – Easter Friday
Shortly after I blogged on my “Vote Labour” poster in my window there was outside the annual Easter “Walk of Witness” by local Churches, who gathered at the Joseph Fry Memorial drinking fountain in Wansted flats.
Vote Labour 2015 Window Poster
My 2015 General Election “Vote Labour” window poster has just gone up. Now, I have my doubts that window posters actually change people’s voting intentions. If there are many of them in an area they can portray presence and local support but I th…Read more…
We’re Not Loving It – Protest At McDonalds, London
Unite London hotel and hospitality workers are protesting against Fast Food giant McDonalds on the morning of April 15th – the international day of action in solidarity with fast food workers…Read more…
USi China Exclusive: Wu Guijun: my new labour centre
This week, USi talked to Wu Guijun, a former worker who was criminally detained for over a year before trial due to his leading role in a furniture factory in Shenzhen. He was then acquitted and released, and set up his own labour organisation to support labour activism. He shared with USi his view on the current labour movement in China, his new centre’s upcoming projects, and his observation on the official trade union.Read more…
The Right to Housing Is an Election Issue
The Right to Housing Is an Election Issue Part 1 – A Public Housing System Is a Requisite of a Modern Society An important issue in the coming general election is the right to housing, to which all…Read more…
Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: Taxing disability benefits would hit hundreds of thousands of low-paid disabled workers
There’s something (horrible) for everyone in the list of possible benefit cuts leaked to the BBC last week. In this column I want to concentrate on the proposal that people would have to pay income tax on their disability benefits if their incomes including these benefits were over the minimum…Read more…