1st July Finance Secretary Derek Mackay THE cap on public sector pay is about to be broken for 5500 support staff in Scotland’s further education colleges. Following several weeks of negotiations…Read more…
British Airways has begun a 16-day walkout
BA cabin staff at the UK’s busiest airport staged a strike in a long-running pay dispute. Members of Unite walked out from midnight, July 1st, at Heathrow, with union claims about “poverty pay”. BA…Read more…
Refuse workers Strike:
Birmingham’s refuse workers go on strike Members of the Unite union will are stopping work from 10:45 until 15:37 BST on Friday. Further stoppages are also planned. The union claims…Read more…
Bank of England staff vote for strike –
Unite union A general view shows the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain April 19, 2017. REUTERS/HANNAH MCKAY (Reuters) – Bank of England staff have voted to strike over pay in the…Read more…
NHS Cuts and Closures Will Be Another Disaster:
The Government and NHS England Direction to “Think the Unthinkable” on NHS Cuts and Closures Will Be Another Disaster for Society It was revealed by the Health Service…Read more…
The Grenfell Tower Tragedy:
The Need for Empowerment: The Grenfell Tower Tragedy On June 14, a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey residential housing block in North Kensington, London. At the time of writing, the…Read more…
UNISON comments on latest NMC figures on UK nurses leaving the NHS
Commenting on the latest NMC figures, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “With both UK and EU nurses leaving, the NHS is heading towards a serious staffing crisis. The country simply isn’t…Read more…
Newham Great 10k Run 2017
Before (top middle) and after (bottom middle) picture of the me taking part in the Newham Great Run (wearing finishing tee shirt and medal) I will admit to have forgotten that I had entered and due to the General election and UNISON conference I …Read more…
#NoMandate – Back on the Campaign Trail
After a short break, members of Forest Gate North & West Ham Labour, led by our newly re-elected MP (with 77% of the vote) Lyn Brown, were back on the campaign trail today. As well as the NHS demo in Central London, today was a Labour Party Nationa…Read more…
Blog: We must keep on marching together, united
It was great to see such crowds out in force to tell Theresa May, her party and her DUP allies that it’s time for an end to austerity, to the pay cap and to this failing Tory government.
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The “left” and racism in a time of Brexit
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that, after a quarter century on release to my trade union as a full time lay official, and following fourteen years’ service in the purgatory that is the National Executive Council (NEC) of UNISON, I have returned to work.
I am therefore trying to study…Read more…
1917: Freedom or Tyranny?
Last night I participated in a debate with the Alliance for Workers Liberty in central London on the subject of “1917: Freedom or Tyranny?”. The following is the text of my opening…Read more…