UNISON has a proud record of supporting health and safety reps in the workplace, and building positive relationships on these issues with employers – that’s why we’re handing out “High 5’s” to…Read more…
Health & Safety Week – challenging authority.
‘Those in authority must always be challenged’. According to BBC presenter, John Humphries, that was the key lesson to be learned from the Aberfan disaster. Miners repeatedly warned the employers…Read more…
If you can make directors liable for cold-calling, why not for killing workers?
Everyone hates cold callers, especially ones that try to get you to make claims for accidents or PPI you did not know you had. Every year the Information Commissioner gets hundreds of thousands of…Read more…
Heart sick
The plan to end heart surgery at Leicester’s Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre is ‘a scandal of national proportions’ Unite has said. The country’s largest union – which has 100,000…Read more…
Who will lose out when we leave the single market? Civitas admit it would be the UK
Today, pro-Brexit think tank Civitas has released a report saying that the EU will lose out from the increases in trade tariffs likely to result from Brexit. Even from the campaign that brought you £350m a week to spend on the NHS, this is a quite remarkably bad argument. As their own figures show,…Read more…
European Health and Safety Week 2016 – 24 October – 30 October
Healthy workplaces for all ages (this advice has gone out this week on my employers website. We will he carrying out joint union and management safety inspections)
Each year, European Health and Safety Week aims to promote goo…d health and safety practice. This year’s theme is Healthy…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
London Loop Walk: Section 8 – The Causeway to Uxbridge Lock
This is off message and a very late post. Gill and I have been walking (very slowly and in fits and starts) around our capital city via the London Loop long distance path. It is circular route, 150 miles long, made up of 15 different sections. We start…Read more…
Schools Green Paper:
Schools Green Paper Taking the Capital-Centred School System to a New Level On September 12, the government published its green paper “Schools that work for everyone” [i], setting out…Read more…
Kindertransport Kids – London Liverpool Street Station 1938 and Calais 2016
This morning I was on my way to a seminar on opposing the new Housing & Planning Act.
I stopped off in London Liverpool Street station to take this photo of the statute (by the ticket office) in honour of the thousands of unaccompanied …Read more…
EU Committee Investigates Atypical Work in the Media
…increasing numbers of workers are not covered by collective agreements…Read more…
Harry Pollitt in East Ham
Hat tip to Captain Swing for sending me this record from the GMB national achieves of a “thank you for voting for me” message from a young East Ham based union activist to we presume, members of his local branch.
The activist is Harry Polli…Read more…
Full details of the complaints about the UNISON General Secretary election have been published officially
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Health trust signs up to charter for workers with terminal illness
Southport and Ormskirk hospitals backs TUC Dying to Work campaign
The article Health trust signs up to charter for workers with terminal illness first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Remembering Aberfan
Fifty years ago today at 9:15am a massive spoil tip slid down the mountain behind Pantglas Junior School, engulfing it completely. 116 children and 28 adults were killed. It’s difficult to find words…Read more…
NHS students overburdened by extra work and rising debt, says UNISON
Two thirds of NHS students have been forced to take work on top of their studies to supplement their income, according to a new report from UNISON published today (Friday). Healthcare students are…Read more…
Mr Cenz and his Art Creation in West Ham
Picture from last week of West Ham ward Councillors (John Whitworth, me and Freda Bourne) with street Artist Mr Cenz (on right), in front of his fantastic mural in Church Road junction with New Plaistow Road, E15 (next to William Hill bookmakers).
Th…Read more…