Picture of Notting Hill UNISON activists in Vauxhall with our ace branch Fighting Fund Organiser, Mary Stump (left), after one of the most successful lunchtime recruitment events I have attended. Six new members filled out forms and there was huge inte…Read more…
There is No PPF or Crown Promise for the LGPS Pension scheme which must be run in the interests of pensioners and not the employers
To be clear.
A Council (or administering authority) is responsible for the majority of any pension deficit but that if the fund does badly and the Council runs out of money (which due to austerity it has been widely predicted will happen to some autho…Read more…
Blog: We must stop the government removing your rights without debate, oversight or a vote
Hard won rights fought for and won over decades could be eliminated by the stroke of a pen in Whitehall.
The article Blog: We must stop the government removing your rights without debate, oversight…Read more…
Taylor tinkers and employees will still be exploited
14 July 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Bradford
It was always likely to happen and now it has – the much awaited publication of The Taylor Review of Modern…Read more…
The ‘not so Great’ Repeal Bill – what’s in it for working people?
Over the last year, the TUC has highlighted just how many of the workplace rights most of us take for granted come from Europe and how these rights could be at risk as we prepare to leave the EU. The government has sought to allay these concerns by pro…Read more…
Unions submit pay claim on behalf of over 30,000 police staff
The UK’s three largest unions have submitted a pay claim on behalf of the 32,000 police staff they represent in England and Wales. UNISON, UNITE and GMB have put in a claim for a 5% or £1,000…Read more…
Apprentices protected by new pay guidance
UNISON will support branches with new guidance ‘to make it stick’ in the workplace
The article Apprentices protected by new pay guidance first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
What the Taylor Review says about learning and skills
Apart from the specialist press, such as the TES, coverage of the proposals in the Taylor Review on learning and skills has been limited. This is not too surprising considering the focus of the review on tackling contentious employment rights issues in…Read more…
Missing (maybe you didn’t look that hard?)
Off message but love this. Hat tip Neil Black on FB Forest Gate Life. Read more…
Rights of people at work must stay protected, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication of the Great Repeal Bill today (Thursday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The rights of people at work must stay protected. It’s not enough to safeguard…Read more…
A better use of limited resources, but ambulance services need greater investment, says UNISON
Responding to NHS England’s announcement today (Thursday) about changes to ambulance call handler targets, national ambulance officer Alan Lofthouse said: “Every second counts for emergency call…Read more…
Hospital Cleaners’ Strike:
Cleaners at London hospitals stage seven-day strike over pay More than 700 cleaners, security guards, catering staff and porters walk out after Serco refuses 30p a an hour pay rise Domestic staff in…Read more…
“London Recruits”
I had a meeting this evening with Peter Smith, Teachers Union NUT lead in Newham about Education Cuts.
In his youth Peter had been one of the “London Recruits”. As well as books there is a film out next year about their role in the struggle. …Read more…
Unite Sector Conferences 2017
Later this year the National Retired Members and all Unite sectors will hold their conferences in Brighton. Each sector conferences determines a sector’s own industrial policies provided that they are not inconsistent with the general policy and object…Read more…
Members accept HE pay offer
But employers still haven’t gone ‘far enough’ says UNISON
The article Members accept HE pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Supreme Court battle leads to survivors’ pension equality for same-sex couples
Congratulations to John Walker! For eleven years, he has been fighting his employer and the government, so that his husband can receive his pension when he dies. He had to fight because, until today, the law permitted same sex couples to be discriminated against. Today the Supreme Court upheld…Read more…
Beware ‘cashless’ society
Unite’s annual political school in Durham, in the week of the inspirational Miners’ Gala, was one of the best that I had attended. It’s an intense three days. This year was no different in…Read more…
Labour at The Forest Gate Festival – Saturday 15 July 2017
“The Forest Gate Festival first took place in 2000, on Osborne Road and has been going strong ever since. Usually held on the third Saturday of July, it’s a local street Festival organised by enthusiastic residents on a volunteering basis.From the start, the Festival has been about…Read more…
The incredible lightness of London Region UNISON in the health service
I wouldn’t want readers of this blog in the bowels of Congress House to think that I shall completely ignore the Greater London Region of UNISON now that I am simply a member, rather than holding any office.
Indeed, I was about to send greetings of solidarity in connection with the strike action by…Read more…
Where will we win a Labour Government?
Here is a link to the list of Tory held marginal seats which Labour needs to win in order to form a majority Government.
In Sussex the three Tory held target seats are Hastings and Rye, Crawley and East Worthing and Shoreham.
Of course we also need to…Read more…