GMB calls for reinstatement of rep who fought cuts at Rowley Owls NurseryRead more…
The name’s BECTU … union members protest outside Bond premiere
Union demonstrates outside Albert Hall after bosses refuse recognitionRead more…
ASLEF calls on Transport Minister to come clean over electrification costs
Government admits initial estimate tripled to £2.8bnRead more…
Understanding opens the door
As a black child in a predominately white village in the 1950s, former Unite national secretary for equalities, Bob Purkiss, occasionally encountered instances of racism. Those situations could…Read more…
Torbay Council to have referendum on Executive Mayoral system
This is interesting to anyone concerned with local authority governance. According to this report just under 1,000 people in Torbay took part in a consultation process, where they rejected the mayoral system in support of a new committee system involv…Read more…
RMT demands action after bosses wedge cash machine next to 7/7 memorial
Union says positioning of machine shows cavalier disregard to the memory of those killed in bombingRead more…
British trade unionist elected to top role in Europe
UNISON’s Gloria Mills is the first black woman to be President of the European Trade Union ConfederationRead more…
Letter to the “Workers Party” on the theft of Workers Tax Credits
Picture is from this mornings programme on the BBC “Andrew Marr” Show where I saw a confident Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, pretty much destroy Tory Education Minister, Nicky Morgan, rather desperate attempts to justify the Government’s proposals to rob £1000’s from hardworking British…Read more…
Cameron’s EU renegotiation strategy: a virus infecting the European social model
On Friday I spoke at an event in Dublin organised by the Charter Group – Irish trade unionists supporting the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – about the United Kingdom’s EU referendum. This is an edited version of the speech I gave. Ever since Jacques Delors came to our Congress…Read more…
Cuts threaten disabled people in work
Disabled workers describe struggle to work twenty years after Disability Discrimination Act
The article Cuts threaten disabled people in work first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
March for the climate, justice and jobs in November
Dave Prentis urges members to marchin London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast ahead of UN climate change talks
The article March for the climate, justice and jobs in November first appeared on the…Read more…
Quebec Public Sector Workers Call National Strike
Public service workers in Common Front lead demonstration in Montreal, October 3, 2015. The 400,000 member Common Front of public sector unions in Quebec announced on October 9 that they will launch…Read more…
Quebec Public Sector Workers Call National Strike
Public service workers in Common Front lead demonstration in Montreal, October 3, 2015. The 400,000 member Common Front of public sector unions in Quebec announced on October 9 that they will launch…Read more…
We Shall Overcome has made music matter again
Joe Solo reflects a new phenomenon … and starts planing next year’s eventRead more…
Equal pay laws must go further, say unions
TUC says legislation should be extended to medium-sized companiesRead more…
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power
Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from…Read more…
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal’s anti-euro Left banned from power
Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe’s monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from…Read more…
The West Ham 3 Johns at work – Punk John, Chic John and ? John
Busy Saturday. First, was Councillor Surgery at Brasset Point Tenants & Residents Room (had a tricky planning “Stop Notice” issue); then memorial tribute to PC Nina MacKay followed by ward “walkabout” in Dirleton Road E15 with concerned residents (…Read more…
Teachers form new Arab trade union bloc
Seventeen education unions and associations representing sixteen Arab countries from the Middle East and North Africa met on 7-8 October in Beirut in Lebanon to establish a new Arab teachers’ trade…Read more…
PC Nina Mackay 24 October 2015
This morning I was present at a memorial tribute to murdered PC Nina Mackay. The 25 year old was stabbed while trying to arrest a wanted man at a flat in Arthingworth Street, West Ham ward on October 24, 1997.
Local Police Officers and members from th…Read more…