The Tories want to abolish the Human Rights Act and replace it with a watered down Bill of Rights. Their first try was attacked by former Tory attorney general Dominic Grieve who said it was…Read more…
How responsible is responsible investment?
Responsible investment is a nice title and a growing industry, but how much difference does it really make to the way our pension funds are invested?
Courtesy of the excellent Nordic Horizons…Read more…
NEW INFLATION RATES
Head Office Circular No. NP/089/15/MC To the Secretary all Branches,Council of Executive members,Regional Councils and Regional…Read more…
Unite will not choose next Labour leader
Labour’s election loss was not one defeat but several. Votes that should have been Labour’s went to the Tories , UKIP , the SNP and the Greens. Not to mention the millions of natural Labour…Read more…
Support our school support staff
We need better training and support from school managers and head teachers to help support staff work alongside challenging pupilsRead more…
Rates of Pay & Conditions of Service 2015 – Network Rail
Circular No IR/127/15 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR6/000118th May 2015 Dear…Read more…
Rates of Pay & Conditions of Service 2015 – Network Rail
From RMT Press Office.
General secretary Mick Cash said.
“It is highly damaging that instead of focusing on the talks process Network Rail have opted instead to threaten a dash to…Read more…
Negative CPI inflation and falling core inflation, the Chancellor is right to “remain vigilant to deflationary risks”
In April 2015 CPI inflation was minus -0.1 per cent, after two months of zero per cent inflation. ONS have constructed historic data which suggest the last time CPI inflation fell was in March 1960, 55 years ago. The Chancellor first stressed the beneficial cost of living effects that some…Read more…
12 Days away from another proposed 48 hour strike in Barnet
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On the Knocker for John Biggs in Mile End
After the Regional UNISON agm on Saturday and while cycling home, I stopped off at the Tower Hamlets Labour Party HQ in Bethnal Green to help campaign for Labour Mayor candidate, John Biggs. I was asked if I minded going out with a canv…Read more…
View from the Coalface – The role of trade unionists as pension trustees
This picture is from the panel seminar last week at the “Workplace Pension 2015” conference in Birmingham.
I was with Bill Trythall, who is a fellow AMNT union appointed trustee on the massive USS Pension scheme. The chair was Louise Farrand from “En…Read more…
Barnet UNISON stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Tory Councils
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Not a headline a members would have expected to see but as we forecast in our Barnet Voice newspaper here
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Let them eat cake
Tax cuts for business, public spending cuts…but we want lots of investment on items which will make us money. The Institute of ‘fat cat’ Directors gives their ‘want our cake and eat…Read more…
The General Election result, trade unions and politics
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Oh dearie me “senior Labour figures” are worried that “modernisers” may be squeezed out of the premature election for Labour’s next Leader (in which we can enjoy hasty and unconvincing explanations for electoral failure).
The rea…Read more…
Not what we voted for
It started on May 9 in London, less than 48 hours after the election. Hundreds marched in an impromptu protest outside Downing Street, voicing their frustration with a government they did not vote…Read more…
The Spirit of the Levellers’: The Antidote to Austerity
Colleagues,
Just a short piece to report on a truly amazing day on Saturday accompanying the students of the MA ILTUS at Ruskin who have worked tremendously hard to gain a day off to attend the annual Levellers’ Day event in nearby Burford.
I had com…Read more…
Why we need to save FIFA from a Qatar 2022 disaster
FIFA President Sepp Blatter spent a weekend earlier this year with the Emir of Qatar at the Al Bahr palace in Doha. It wasn’t his first visit to the Emir’s Palace.Read more…
Singing on the picket line?
Is it a travesty of an important Victorian industrial dispute, to portray it as a musical? Particularly a musical rooted in the music hall tradition? Playwright Fatima Uygun doesn’t think so. She is…Read more…
Tories’ high rise of housing woe
Only a week after the Tories have begun their latest five-year reign of power, new, record-breaking figures released last Thursday (May 14) from the first few months of 2015 have shown the massive…Read more…
The Hypocrisy World Cup?
FIFA’s sponsors have ethical policies in their own supply chains but are silent over Qatar World Cup rights abuses that they are funding.Read more…