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Fears for patient care and jobs

Jan 6, 2016By UNITElive

The double whammy of two key failed NHS policies – privatisation and PFI debt – have contributed to the potential merger of two mid-Anglia NHS trusts – possibly affecting patient care and jobs…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016UNITElive

Time for action on fat cat pay

Jan 6, 2016By Dave Watson

On the day most workers in Scotland returned to work, FTSE100 CEO’s had already been paid more than the average worker will earn this year.
Fat Cat Tuesday is a useful way of highlighting just how…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Dave Watson

Paying for privilege to care

Jan 6, 2016By UNITElive

Protesters will take to London’s streets this Saturday to demonstrate against Tory plans to cut student nursing bursaries in England and replace them with loans.   The plans, which were…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016UNITElive

Junior doctors go ahead with industrial action

Jan 6, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

Industrial action by junior doctors in England is set to take place next week after the Government ‘misinterpreted and misconstrued’ the BMA’s intentions for a new contract. Talks over a new contract…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Rtuc's Blog

Devolution: Approaches adopted by large or metropolitan cities will not necessarily suit county areas

Jan 6, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

How to make rural devolution work Approaches adopted by large or metropolitan cities will not necessarily suit county areas, finds Brian Wilson. ‘Unlocking county devolution deals‘ is the…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Rtuc's Blog

Rural fair share campaign stepped up

Jan 6, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

by  Ruralcity Media A campaign for fairer rural funding is being stepped up ahead of a crucial vote in the House of Commons in February. It follows a government proposal to quadruple the rural…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Rtuc's Blog

What’s wrong with Star Wars?

Jan 6, 2016By Eric Lee

This article appears in this week’s issue of Solidarity. Socialists begin our understanding of culture with Marx’s oft-quoted comments about the ruling ideas of an age being the ideas of…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Eric Lee

It’s official, most people back online strike ballots. So why won’t the #TUbill allow them?

Jan 6, 2016By Touchstone blog

We’ve published the results of a new poll today, showing that the majority of the British public think that unions should be able to use electronic balloting to vote for industrial action. YouGov talked to a representative sample of 1,711 adults. 53% told them that secure online voting for…Read more…

Jan 6, 2016Touchstone blog

70 years ago: Some key events

Jan 5, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

1946 January 11 Enver Hoxha declares the People’s Republic of Albania. April 29 – Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tōjō, Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima….Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Rtuc's Blog

Strike over Smart meters

Jan 5, 2016By UNITElive

A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take place next week (January 11), after Acas talks failed to make a break through.   Unite suspended a…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016UNITElive

Fat cat Tuesday injustice

Jan 5, 2016By UNITElive

By the end of today (January 5) the UK’s top bosses will have earned more money than the average worker will do in a year, claims campaign group the High Pay Centre.   The group has named today…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016UNITElive

212th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution

Jan 5, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

Haitians Defend Historic Victory for Rights and Liberty “Combat de Vertières” by Patrick Noze, oil on canvas, from Haitian Art in the Diaspora. The Battle of Vertières was the decisive…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Rtuc's Blog

2016 service group executive elections

Jan 5, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

The nomination period for election of the union’s service group executives opens on Tuesday 12 January

The article 2016 service group executive elections first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Dave Prentis blog

Unfair fares are up

Jan 5, 2016By UNITElive

This week (January 4) rail fares increased to the anger of commuters, who have been left to pick up the cost of rail privatisation.   The increase of one per cent increase to season tickets and…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016UNITElive

57th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution:

Jan 5, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

A cannon salute for the Revolution and victory The firing of a battery of six 122 millimeter shells M-30, by 30 cadets from the Revolutionary Armed Forces’ General Antonio Maceo School resounded in…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Rtuc's Blog

Rtuc's Blog 2016-01-05 13:35:28

Jan 5, 2016By Rtuc's Blog

Maxim Gorky 2016 marks the 8oth anniverary of the death of Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), known…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Rtuc's Blog

‘No more cuts to the Environment Agency’

Jan 5, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON calls on government to maintain Agency funding in wake of floods

The article ‘No more cuts to the Environment Agency’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Dave Prentis blog

Unison Branch AGM Wednesday 24 February 2016

Jan 5, 2016By City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

The City of Stoke-On-Trent Local Government Branch AGM will take place on Wednesday 24 February 2016 at 5.30 pm at the Jubilee Hall, Civic Centre, Stoke. A buffet is available from 4.45 pm but this must be pre-ordered by e-mailing … Continue reading →Read more…

Jan 5, 2016City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

A West Ham evening with Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Seema Malhotra MP

Jan 5, 2016By John's Labour blog

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Jan 5, 2016John's Labour blog

The State Pension muddle and 1950s women

Jan 5, 2016By Touchstone blog

On Thursday, Mhairi Black, the youngest MP in the House of Commons, will do her bit for intergenerational solidarity by opening a House of Commons debate on State Pension age changes. A long-simmering row over the impact on women born in the 1950s of a combination of State Pension Age equalisation…Read more…

Jan 5, 2016Touchstone blog
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