Our Ref BR6/0001Circular No IR/147/1510th June 2015TO ALL BRANCHES, REGIONAL COUNCILS AND REGIONAL OFFICES Dear Colleagues, RATES OF PAY AND…Read more…
Criminal Manipulation of Currencies for Private Gain:
Banks’ Guilty Pleas Underscore Necessity for New Direction for the Economy – K.C. Adams – The global financial institutions Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of…Read more…
Dear Andy Burnham
I have a lot of time for Andy Burnham. He’s from Liverpool, I’m from Liverpool. He supports Everton, so do I. supports Everton, so do I. I feel like I know him. So I was sad and disappointed when I…Read more…
If you mean it, put it in writing: unions to Cameron on NHS & #TTIP
At Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, David Cameron repeated – yet again – his claim that we should trust him that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP – the EU-US trade deal) would have no impact on the NHS. Under fire from Labour Leader Harriet…Read more…
Cameron must come clean about his plans to renegotiate our rights from Europe
When he was asked during Prime Minster’s Questions today about his plans for re-negotiating rights for working people set out originally under the European Social Chapter, David Cameron gave the ominous answer that it would include: “some of the issues under what was called the social…Read more…
Workers are wealth creators too – Give them a fairer deal
Good reputations are hard to build and all too easy to lose. Of course business isn’t the only institution in Britain facing a crisis of trust. But unlike others, business can end up paying a high price in lost profit, productivity and jobs. Unions argue that no one has a greater interest in the…Read more…
Budget surplus target plays politics with economic growth
Is it possible that anybody thinks the budget surplus law apparently to be announced in the Mansion House speech is about anything other than politics? It’s definitely stupid economics. Inevitably spending was higher and taxes were lower in the UK after the financial crash, and we had a small…Read more…
“Government should put us on track for a low-carbon world.”
Business Green is running an online poll showing that 84 per cent of respondents believe that the low carbon economy “will not prosper under a Conservative government.” Such anxieties may help explain why, so early in this administration, 80 businesses have paid for a full page letter in the FT….Read more…
Opening salvo in latest battle
Within 72 hours of the Tories forming a majority in Parliament it became crystal clear they were salivating at the opportunity to further impose their political austerity agenda for another five…Read more…
UNISON demands Stirling and Clacks councils release elusive report
Date: Wednesday 10 June
2015
UNISON has called for the immediate release of all
Ernst & Young documentation relating to the future of social care
and education in Clackmannanshire and Stirling Councils.
In particular, UNISON demand the release of a report –
by accountants Ernst and Young, commissioned by Stirling andRead more…
Home threat hotspots
New research from the Ministry of Justice shows that more than 8,300 people face losing their home every week in England. Londoners face the highest risk of losing their home because of…Read more…
Will Amazon’s Shareholder Meeting stand up for human rights?
Amazon.com are hosting their annual shareholder meeting in Seattle today. Our friends corporate responsibility campaign group SumOfUs will be there too. They’ve managed to get a motion into the votes…Read more…
Political Repression is All in the Game, When Big Money is in Play
BIG OIL lubricated way for Azerbaijan, but protesters steal the light.
THE European Games are due to open in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, on Friday, but the Azerbaijani…Read more…
Tomorrow is election day in Tower Hamlets!
“Do you have any spare time tomorrow? If so come and join us in Tower Hamlets to get Labour voters out to vote for John Biggs as the new Mayor.
We’ve got two sessions: 1pm and 5.30pm at Stratford station (5.30pm meeting …Read more…
School Support Staff Seminar May 2015
Two of our School Support Staff members attended the Unison National School Support Staff Seminar in Cardiff May 2015. Their information on conference speakers and an interesting presentation on TUPE is below: School Support Staff Seminar Report Cardiff May 2015 … Continue reading →Read more…
#TTIP vote postponed: blow to G7 hopes of an early EU-US trade deal
This afternoon, we heard that the votes in the European Parliament due for Wednesday lunchtime on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) had been postponed. Various reasons for the postponement have been given, and there are different explanations of what the postponement means…Read more…
Why “Right to Buy” will be another nail in the coffin of the Housing Association movement
The 1966 BBC television play “Cathy Come Home” about homelessness and its back drop is credited with with kick starting many modern day Housing associations.
Sadly, some (not by all means all) have forgotten their social mission and instead become mon…Read more…
UNISON Probation strike action suspended
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/probation-strike-action-suspendedI was going to blog a message of solidarity to our members of UNISON in the probation service who were to have been taking strike action as part of their pay dispute on Thursday.
Instead I’…Read more…
Necessity to Organise against Government’s Proposed Anti-Trade Union Legislation:
The Queen’s speech threatened that the government would “bring forward legislation to reform trade unions and to protect essential public services against strikes”. This has posed the question…Read more…
National Gallery Struggle:
The Fight against Privatisation and for the Right to Speak Out and Organise Candy UdwinOn Saturday May 30, Trafalgar Square was filled with thousands of people who came to support the workers at the…Read more…