Unions call on foreign secretary to help stop the imminent execution of 14 pro-democracy activists in Saudi Arabia
The article Unions urge foreign secretary to help stop Saudi beheadings first…Read more…
Bus safety now call
Unite bus drivers demanded London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) must implement the findings of the London Assembly transport committee report, Driven to distraction, as a matter of…Read more…
A new Left alignment on corporate governance
I can’t overstate how much I like the report that the IPPR has just issued on corporate governance. I’ve been boring on for a while now about what I see as the end of the 1990s model of corporate governance for the UK. At the same time there has been s…Read more…
Help stop the sale of NHS Professionals
UNISON backs We Own It campaign against sell-off – you can help by signing the petition and urging your MP to back the Early Day Motion 152
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Government is out of step with the public mood on pay, says UNISON
Commenting on the latest inflation figures, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “With inflation much higher than wages, nurses, teaching assistants and care staff are…Read more…
Government’s school funding announcement disappoints education unions
The government’s funding announcement today (Monday) is disappointing and means a return to smoke and mirrors statements on school funding, say education unions. UNISON, ATL, NUT and GMB have…Read more…
Grenfell Tower & Fire Safety in High Rise Blocks motion to West Ham GC
Emergency Motion West Ham Labour Party General Committee 20 July
Grenfell Tower & Fire Safety in High Rise Blocks
This branch/GC notes:1. The appalling loss of life at Grenfell Tower, together with the troubling prospect that the death toll wil…Read more…
UNISON joins the carnival against the cuts
Thousands of parents, pupils, school staff and their unions demonstrated against cuts to school funding yesterday
The article UNISON joins the carnival against the cuts first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Repeal Bill rights threat
The publication of the Tory’s Repeal Bill on July 13 was greeted with a barrage of criticism and vows to have it struck down in Parliament. Unite warned that the Prime Minister’s pledge to…Read more…
Bin pre-employment health screening
Last week Iberian Airlines, part of the same company as British Airways, were fined €25,000 for asking a recruitment company to do medical screening of prospective cabin crew that included checking…Read more…
BREACH OF AGREEMENT, GUARDS AND COMMERCIAL GUARDS – SOUTH WEST TRAINS
Circular No: IR/306/16 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR2/14/2 17th July 2017 Dear Colleague, BREACH OF…Read more…
Public sector workers are asking for a fair pay rise, not a windfall
David Chrimes is a Crown Advocate employed by the Crown Prosecution Service. He writes about why, after a seven-year squeeze, public sector workers deserve a pay rise. For us, this isn’t about pitting public sector against private sector. It’s simply about securing fair pay, which…Read more…
Transaction tax:
The circulation of goods from the point of manufacture to the point of consumption should be carried out by administrative means only. The market economy of commodity exchange, is an unwieldy and…Read more…
The Chancellor is “completely out of touch” on pay, says UNISON
Commenting on the Chancellor’s comments today (Sunday) on public sector pay, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “The Chancellor’s remarks show he is completely out of…Read more…
Workers stranded in diplomatic stand-off as Qatar and Saudi Arabia square up
As wealthy Gulf states face off over long simmering diplomatic differences, foreign workers in both countries are at risk of bearing the brunt of the dispute. An ongoing row in the Gulf over Qatar’s alleged links to terrorist groups, with the wealthy nation blockaded by a group of neighbours led by…Read more…
A new Anti-Slavery Charter: how to combat slavery in the 21st Century
Unionised workforces cannot be enslaved. This is because of the simple fact that a unionised workforce is harder to exploit by even the most unscrupulous employers. But that self-evident truth is one that many who profess themselves concerned with the …Read more…
Future economies: what next for globalisation and trade?
Last week I was invited to the British-German Forum – a symposium for young people from both countries – at Wilton Park, an agency of the FCO, to talk with my colleague Jan Stern from the German trade union confederation the DGB, about the issues facing globalisation. Here’s an…Read more…
Labour at Forest Gate Festival 2017
Picture collage from Saturdays Forest Gate Festival. This was a really fantastic event and for the first time we had a Labour Party stall at the festival talking to people and encouraging them to join the Party.
It was amazing how many people said the…Read more…
Housing speech at UNISON National Labour Link Forum
John Gray, speaking on behalf of your National Labour Link Committee in favour of motion 11 (similar) “Why we need to build a new housing consensus for affordable and decent homes for all”
as amended.
“Chair, Forum, In 1945 General electio…Read more…
ShareAction Summer thank you 2017
Picture collage from Thursday evening “thank you event” in Brick Lane, East London for supporters of ShareAction – a campaigning body “to make investment a force for the good”.
It was great to meet so many people concerned about the po…Read more…