On Saturday I sent off my postal vote (see right). Tonight I have been ringing some of the 225 West Ham Party members and residents who have volunteered to help on polling day. We have also sent them this email below. We need to win these mar…Read more…
Blog: All that we care about and all that we value is on the line this Thursday
We are now just days away from a day that will define the future of our country and our public services. The choice is a clear one. More cuts, more pain, lower wages and more public service job cuts…Read more…
Joint campaign secures protections for school workers
Support workers, teaching staff and leadership unions unite in campaign over threat of redundancies
The article Joint campaign secures protections for school workers first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Police cuts and crime in your area
Since the Conservative government came to power, both in coalition and after, our police service has been devastated by cuts to officers and staff, including PCSOs.
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Eight ways to raise pay and protect us from over or under-work
05 June 2017
By Alan Bogg, Professor of Labour Law, the University of Oxford
Workers’ rights and wage inequality have become a key political battleground this General Election following public…Read more…
MI5 implicated….claim Abedi, “acted alone” part of cover-up”…he was allowed to “slip through the net … useful tool of foreign policy…he was a “protected asset”
Police claim Manchester suicide bomber was a “lone wolf” after all By Robert Stevens World Socialist Website 1 June 2017 The latest claim by Greater Manchester Police that suicide bomber Salman Abedi…Read more…
Tories education on a shoestring
At St Nicolas’ Church of England school in Taplow – part of the Prime Minister’s constituency – parents are being asked to donate up to £30 a month to cover a projected £40,000 shortfall and avoid…Read more…
Vote for change
It was the moment all could see that this Empress has No Clothes. The Prime Minister flapping her arms and shrilling that nothing had changed as she U-turned on her voter-poison social care plan….Read more…
General election 2017: pay and the cost of living
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
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General election 2017: Social care
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
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May: limping towards the finishing line?
Writing this on the Monday before the election only a mug would predict the outcome. The polls are all over the place. However, given the fact that May called the election to give herself ‘a stronger mandate’, if she does not secure an increased majority she will have suffered a big…Read more…
General election 2017: The NHS
With the election now upon us, UNISON considers its five key demands for the NHS – and how the main parties measure up in their manifestos
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Chicken factory closure confirmed
The 2 Sisters Food Group has confirmed that the Smethwick plant in the West Midlands will close on June 23 this year. The poultry processing plant employs 630 workers and 530 of them are Unite…Read more…
“No pasarán'” London will never give in to Fascists.
I am not from London originally but have lived and worked here for the past 29 years.
My company head office happens to be in London Bridge and I have been going to Borough Market off and on for many years. The fascist morons who last night mur…Read more…
We will never be defeated by acts of cowardice and violence
Today and in the days ahead, the people of London will continue to live, work and love in this great city – and they will never be defeated by acts of violence and cowardice which seek to divide…Read more…
The Voice Of The Community Nurse
Morning Star DANIELLE TIPLADY is a community nurse in London. She shot to prominence when she organised the Bursary or Bust demonstration in January 2016 opposing government plans to axe the NHS…Read more…
Days lost to strike action almost doubled last year.
Strikes Double In Spite Of Tory Union Busting Peter Lazenby Morning Star WORKERS are increasingly fighting back against attacks by bosses and the government as new figures revealed yesterday that the…Read more…
Why Vote Labour (5 top reasons if you belong to a trade union)
(sent to UNISON Labour Link members). Above from whyvotelabour.org.uk.. Check it out.
“it’s the final countdown to the General Election with polls narrowing.
UNISON is acting as the lead union supporting Ilford North CLP, Ealing, Central & A…Read more…
Public servants need a #PayRise: Stories from the North West
One of the strongest themes we’ve heard on the North West leg of our Britain Still Needs A Pay Rise tour has been what’s happening to wages in the public sector. Traditionally seen as a sector of “good jobs”, the years since the crash have seen a dramatic reversal. In…Read more…
The Working Class, with its Independent Politics and Role, is the essential factor of modern life.
Isn’t it amazing that when we have terror attacks like Manchester and the essential work that workers do, to clean up the mess, when such things as the floods, which occurred a few years back, there…Read more…