Cooks, cleaners, carers, nurses, teaching assistants, housing officers, hospital porters and many more, join tens of thousands of others in call to end austerity
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Cooks, cleaners, carers, nurses, teaching assistants, housing officers, hospital porters and many more, join tens of thousands of others in call to end austerity
The article Marching to end…Read more…
Public sector pay is at least back on the political agenda. Now we need to turn the rhetoric into action.
The decision of Jeremy Corbyn to put ending the public sector pay cap as a key element of…Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…