Do you use social care services for older people (aged 65 or over) or look after someone who does? UNISON would like to hear about your experience
The article Do you use social care services? first…Read more…
Sports Direct AGM: Vote FOR resolution 19
I’ve blogged quite a bit about Sports Direct previously, now it’s your chance to do something about it.
The Sports Direct AGM takes place on 7th September, and the company has just issued its notice of meeting. Resolution 19 has been filed by Unite an…Read more…
UNISON gives evidence on growing social care funding crisis
The crisis in adult social care is set to worsen due to a growing funding gap, UNISON has told the Communities and Local Government Committee.
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Our education system is under sustained attack from Theresa May’s government
If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
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NHS commissioners on course for some ‘unpalatable’ decisions
But UNISON warns that ‘there is little left to cut’
The article NHS commissioners on course for some ‘unpalatable’ decisions first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Labour Party CLP NEC election results 2016
Clean sweep for Jeremy Corbyn supporters on the Labour Party NEC. A significant margin I think.
UNISON National Labour Link Committee (I am a NEC member of this committee) meets on Thursday to decide on our nomination. Read more…
Southern Rail, ScotRail and red herrings
It’s often said that it takes two sides to make a dispute; it certainly takes two sides to end one. Last week during talks at ACAS, the RMT offered to suspend strike action at Southern Rail if the…Read more…
First Dorset striking bus drivers’ pay demand ‘unaffordable’ ???
Share Drivers have manned a picket line at the entrance to the First Dorset office in Weymouth A pay increase demand by striking bus drivers in Dorset is “unaffordable”, a bus company has…Read more…
Southern Rail Strike: Nationalise it!
Five-day walkout commences: The disastrous consequences of privatised railway has led to calls for the entire network and in particular Southern Rail to pass quickly back into Public ownership just…Read more…
New grammar school backlash
UNISON condemns possible creation of new selective schools
The article New grammar school backlash first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Phenomenal’ public support
Bus drivers in Weymouth and Bridport have been buoyed up by ‘phenomenal’ public support in their two-month industrial action against ‘poverty pay’. Unite also branded the claims of First…Read more…
‘Missed opportunity’
When Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley was hauled before MPs in June to answer questions about “Victorian” work practices within his company, Ashley said, “I would have no problem with an independent…Read more…
Have your say on Personal Independence Payments
The Department for Work and Pensions is undertaking a review of Personal Independence Payments (PIP). If you have applied for PIP in the past, you can fill in their questionnaire here to submit your…Read more…
Why Sanders and his supporters are now backing Clinton
Over the course of the last year, millions of Americans voted for Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist candidate who offered a program of radical change. According to public opinion polls, nearly…Read more…
The Today Programme’s dodgy rail strike maths
This morning’s Today programme covered the industrial dispute at Southern Rail. Justin Webb talked live to his correspondent Ben Thompson at Victoria station (Listen at 47:38), who expressed…Read more…
Changes to company records would be bad for workers
Companies House is proposing a significant change to how long information on companies is kept that could have a major impact on the ability of workers to get compensation for diseases that appear…Read more…
5 ways to combat racism in the workplace
Due to the rise of racism since the EU referendum results, the TUC is calling on the government to take real and immediate action to make our communities safer and more respectful for everyone….Read more…
Capital-Centred Proposals Do Not Signal the End of Austerity
Meeting in Liskeard, Cornwall, July 30, 2016, organised by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell to discuss the economy Recently there has been much said and written speculating that changes in economic…Read more…
Labour needs criticism and debate
http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/I joined the Labour Party at the age of fifteen, going to meetings of the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) at which I was (initially) the only person who wasn’t a supporter of the Militant Tendency (as it then was). I learn…Read more…
My Nephew Lewis and his Baby Daughter Teagan
Off message but love this picture from today of East Ham born Lewis and his beautiful 2 month daughter, Teagan. Lewis and his partner Felicity, had to go through the drama of childbirth and then soon after moving into their new home in Witham…Read more…