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This picture collage is from last Saturday, when I went to Birmingham to support my UNISON NEC colleague, Mary Locke, who is standing to be a Labour Councillor in Bournville ward, Birmingham next Thursday 5 May.
Mary would make a fantastic Councillor…
http://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/local-government-pay-disarray
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Marxist-Leninist) will know that your blogger has – over the years – paid unreasonable attention to the meanderings of a bizarre xenophobic sect on t…
Fracking has probably been the only energy issue to surface in the Scottish Parliament election campaign. The Tories support it, Labour oppose it, and the SNP are sceptical, but not ruling it out.As…
“If you have any time over the next week you could ensure we get London a Labour Mayor. And if you can join us on 5 May please let us know. It’s actually quite fun…. (honest…)
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https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2016/04/unison-welcomes-governments-change-of-heart-on-trade-union-bill-proposals/ Following on from the Government climbing down from its plan to ban deduction of union subscriptions from salaries in the public sector, the further concessions…
There’s been far too little coverage so far of one of the most important set of elections also taking place next week – the police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections in England and Wales
The…
Health Care Is a Right! For an NHS Based on Fulfilling this Right! Junior Doctors carried out full walkouts on 26 and 27 April in England in their fight to oppose the govenment’s plan to impose…
No to EU Austerity! Working People Themselves Must Set the Agenda The EU Referendum campaign officially began on April 15 and the voting in the Referendum itself takes place on June 23. Despite this,…
Photo: Steve Boneham The Cities and Local Government Devolution Act received the Royal Assent on January 28. The Act promises election of mayors for “Combined Authorities”, as well as…
Economics professor Patrick Minford came out yesterday (April 28) to say that “if we left the EU, it seems that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing.” But, Minford – who was a major…
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will express concern at a meeting next week about the proposed closure of the Stagecoach bus depot in Dundee. Bosses at the bus company have advised union…
Workers around the globe call for ‘strong laws, strong enforcement, strong unions’
The article UNISON marks International Workers’ Memorial Day first appeared on the UNISON site.
On the face of it acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people has never been greater. The passing of legislation ensuring legal parity in marriage for lesbian and gay couples is an…
Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation
The article UNISON to consider national employer’s final pay offer 2016/17 for higher education first appeared on the UNISON…
At the launch of the UK-based campaign to free imprisoned Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ӧcalan, on Monday night (April 25), a standing-room only crowd in the House of Commons heard international speakers…
Two branches join forces to celebrate Welsh role in trade union history
The article UNISON sponsors Merthyr Rising Festival first appeared on the UNISON site.
The first ever Bob Tressell Festival was held on Merseyside yesterday (April 28). The date chosen to celebrate the life of the man who wrote the classic labour movement book The Ragged…
This week the Trade Union Bill went back to the House of Commons. We didn’t manage to defeat the entire Bill but we did manage to remove several elements of it that would have irrevocably damaged the…
The decision to suspend Al Jazeera’s licence to operate is deeply prejudicial in a country that badly needs a free press
This week saw the latest skirmish in the battle against the Trade Union Bill. Through cross-party working in Parliament and campaigning hard across the country, we have forced the Government into…