In the week that the Mayor of London announced his new London Transport Strategy (out for consultation until the 2nd October – read more here), come join us for a discussion and debate with Transport expert Christian Wolmar to discuss the ambitious plans, whether it can really…Read more…
#UNDC “Why we need to build a new housing consensus for affordable and decent homes for all”
This is the speech I gave on Thursday on behalf of the NEC about the Housing motion put forward by London Region and my branch.
“Conference/Chair
John Gray, Community NEC, speaking in favour of motion 36 as amended. I happen also to…Read more…
Time for the Green Party to affiliate to the Labour Party
Now that I am no longer a UNISON representative I think I should turn my talent for writing controversial blog posts which may upset people to the sphere of my Labour Party activity. As regular readers will know, everything I say here is only my own pe…Read more…
Whole Foods Market, Amazon and Inhospitable Hospitality
Unions in the hospitality industry are fighting back around the globe…Read more…
Blog: Jeremy’s agenda is our agenda
We have been with Jeremy when times were tough and we will be with him in the years ahead. So when the next election comes, which may not be too far off, we will be ready to fight for him and for a…Read more…
Support Manchester housing maintenance strikers
180 Unite members employed by Manchester Working Limited / Mears, who carry out vital maintenance in the city, have been been in dispute for five weeks and are currently striking on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Today they held an impressive protest …Read more…
FURTHER THREE DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION ON ARRIVA RAIL NORTH
22 June 2017 RMT Press Office: RMT confirms a further three days of strike action on Arriva Rail North in guards’ safety dispute Rail union RMT has confirmed that a further three days of strike…Read more…
More Postal Strikes Over Pay.
A wave of actions may be hitting Britain, concentrating on Wage increases. This is in light of the TUC saying that Britain deserves a pay rise. Postal deliveries in the Scarborough area were…Read more…
UNISON: Conference Speech from Corbyn:
National delegate conference hails inspiring speech from Jeremy Corbyn Labour leader pledges to end public sector pay cap and invest in homes, the NHS, social care and all our services – to create a…Read more…
Undoing Social Protection
23 June 2017
By Professor Steve Tombs, the Open University
“It’s going to come to the point where it’s going to affect the residents, the local population, in many ways we are at that point now,…Read more…
“Enough is Enough!” End Public Sector Pay Restraint!
Unite calls for end of public sector pay restraint to mark European public services day 23 June 2017 Public sector workers in the UK were calling for the lifting of seven years of pay restraint as…Read more…
Battle continues against ‘restrictive and draconian’ Trade Union Act
Brighton delegates told: ‘They want to make us an endangered species. But if they push us, we push back.’
The article Battle continues against ‘restrictive and draconian’ Trade Union Act…Read more…
PCS is encouraging members to support the anti-austerity demonstration in London on 1 July.
1 July: Book your transport now 23 Jun 2017 Join PCS and the People’s Assembly in London on Saturday 1 July to say no to austerity and no to the cuts PCS is encouraging members to support the…Read more…
RMT CONFIRMS NEW STRIKE DATE ON SOUTHERN RAIL
22 June 2017 RMT Press Office: RAIL UNION RMT confirmed today that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike again for 24 hours in the on-going disputes over the safety impact of the extension…Read more…
Cheerio UNISON!
Within the next hour I shall cease to hold my last UNISON position as I am replaced on our NEC by the excellent Sean Fox.
It’s been a wonderful, exhilarating, irritating, exhausting and fascinating quarter century as a Branch Secretary and – for fourteen years – a member of the National…Read more…
Public cash for future energy works
The report on the financing of the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point reinforces the case for public money to be committed to future large-scale energy projects, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
A sorry little episode
I was saddened to see an inarticulate rant in Friday’s “London Calling” (the generally tedious and anodyne Regional news sheet at UNISON National Delegate Conference).
The rant, written by one of the stooges of those who brought our trade union into such disrepute by their misconduct…Read more…
M&S ‘equal pay for equal work’ row
Deliveries to Marks and Spencer food stores in London and the south east will be disrupted if a strike over ‘equal pay for equal work’ at Hemel Hempstead goes ahead, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
End pay restraint call
Public sector workers in the UK were calling for the lifting of seven years’ of pay restraint as part of the European Federation of Public Service Unions’ (EPSU) campaign to mark public services day…Read more…
Stop BA ‘wet lease’ call
Unite today (June 23) is calling on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to turn down an application by British Airways to charter or ‘wet lease’ nine Qatari registered Airbus that it wants to provide…Read more…