National Executive Council makes decision on opening day of nomination period
The article UNISON’s NEC nominates Dave Prentis in general secretary election first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Zero hours jobs leap
At least 744,000 jobs in the UK come with zero hours contracts, a 20% rise in the last year alone, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The TUC estimates there are…Read more…
Report of the UNISON NEC meeting on 2 September 2015
The meeting commenced with most members in the ninth floor Conference Centre and thirteen NEC members in the first floor audio/video link room.The NEC sent best wishes to two members who were unwell (Linda Sweet and Max Watson) and remembered deceased …Read more…
No to funding cuts
Unite has condemned the Northern Ireland Executive over the implementation of its budget which has forced brutal cuts on the Higher Education sector, resulting in almost 200 job losses at the…Read more…
Why did I get involved?
Unpaid, risking trouble at work and not always thanked – why do UNISON’s 40,000 activists do it?
The article Why did I get involved? first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Women, communists and foreigners: the forgotten heroes of Paris, 1945
For years French politicians pushed a myth of liberation from the Nazis that was miltiary and male. The truth is somewhat different 1 0 3K Email French Forces of the Interior are supported by a…Read more…
Climate, Justice and Jobs – Sat 28 Nov Scotland’s Climate March
UNISON Scotland is showing our colours by supporting
the Stop
Climate Chaos Scotland Climate March on Saturday 28 November.
On that weekend around the world, millions will be
marching to put pressure on world leaders for an ambitious deal at the UN
climate negotiations in Paris in December.
Scotland’s Climate March is in Edinburgh, with
other marches taking place in Wales onRead more…
Pope still Catholic. Bears…
The UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) has voted to nominate Dave Prentis in the election for UNISON General Secretary.
Dave got 32 votes to 16 for leading left challenger John Burgess, 4 for Roger Bannister, 1 for Hayley Garner and 1 abstention. The NEC has 65 members in total.
Whilst the…Read more…
Stars in our schools
Join UNISON’s search for the unsung heroes of our schools
The article Stars in our schools first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Backing Corbyn – put on your tin hats
Every day seems to bring a new media-generated hoo-ha about what Jeremy Corbyn may or may not have said. As Owen Jones warns, we’d better get used to it. The vast armoury of the Tory press is trained…Read more…
Part-time poverty
Earning below the living wage is the norm for part-time women workers in more than 130 parliamentary constituencies, according to new research carried out by the TUC to mark Part-time Equal Pay Day….Read more…
A tale of sorrow while walking up Moel Famau – the “Hill of Mothers”
Two weeks ago, I went on a holiday walk from the North Wales market town of Ruthin to the top of the nearby Clwydian hill range, Moel Famau, and then back down to Ruthin. At the summit is the remains of a monument to the 50th Jubilee of King George the…Read more…
Cameron’s lying over free schools, says NUT
Union accuses PM of playing politics with schools in pursuit of his own ideological agendaRead more…
Sign The Petition Opposing The Government’s Trade Union Bill
The TUC has an excellent website with all the info you need about the Trade Union Bill. This is regularly updated with information about the Bill and also contains links to the online petition. The Trade Union Bill is the biggest … Continue reading →Read more…
NUJ calls on Turkish authorities to release imprisoned UK journalists
Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury held on suspicion of working on behalf of terroristsRead more…
Shocking! 75% of women working part-time earn less than the Living Wage
TUC says women will continue to bear the brunt of in-work poverty unless better opportunities are created and wages are increasedRead more…
Cameron’s EU workplace rights strategy pleasing no one
The Financial Times reported last night that David Cameron had dropped plans to demand widespread exemptions from European Union workplace rights. The TUC has been warning that those demands were on his agenda for months (often pooh-poohed by ‘experts’), and we have been arguing that…Read more…
Scottish Government Programme 2015-16
The Scottish Government’s final programme for this parliament is a modest affair in terms of legislation, while seeking to address administratively some recent criticisms of its performance in…Read more…
Chancellor discarding £33bn solar power industry?
Over 100 organisations have appealed to the Prime Minister over the Chancellor’s plans to cut support for the solar power industry. The government, strangely shy about the employment impact of hazarding a £33bn industry. All DECC will admit to in its consultation paper is: “There is likely…Read more…
Osborne Voodoonomics
The Chinese stock market bubble has burst and China has had its own “Black Monday” (on 23 August). Its economic growth is slowing down and the after effects of the turmoil in its stock market and…Read more…