Got email last night from London Region”Dear candidate,Many thanks for attending your interview last weekend. I am pleased to inform you that the assessment team have recommended that you be included on the longlist of candidates and able to seek selec…Read more…
Black History Month Event – London City Hall, Friday 27 October 2017
PROGRAMME OF THE DAY Black History Month 2017
9:30 Coffee and Registration
10:00 Welcome and Introductions – Stephanie Thomas
10:20 Margaret Greer – National Black members Officer
11:00 Alim Kamara – Entertainment (Story Story activity )
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Johnesia…Read more…
Violence towards staff in charities and housing associations must end
New survey reveals danger for staff in the charity and voluntary sector
The article Violence towards staff in charities and housing associations must end first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Rumps to Trump!
As news surfaced this week (October 11) that US president Donald Trump is set to make his first official visit to the UK early next year, author, designer and illustrator Mike Dicks wants Britons to…Read more…
‘Wage theft’ demo
Unite will be staging a protest outside Bloomberg’s London office on Monday (October 16) calling on the media giant to take action against Seal Security over the theft of wages and its appallingly…Read more…
‘Pitiful pay’
Over 2,000 bus drivers and engineering staff working for Arriva North West across 11 depots are set to stage a series of one day stoppages starting Thursday, October 19, in a dispute over below…Read more…
‘Affront to democracy’
Unite urged more MPs to join the dozens who have backed Labour MP Chuka Umunna’s call to strip Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd – a firm implicated in the construction blacklisting scandal – of its contract…Read more…
The political perils of blogs and email
I have not blogged much about local Labour Party matters for the past couple of weeks.
And I won’t now.
I just want to reflect on my experience of saying something online, which I said in good faith, but which turned out to have been ill advised and t…Read more…
Workplace pensions work: but we are going backwards not forwards
Pensions for many have improved over the years but we are now in danger of going backwards not
forwards. See article below from TUC’s Tim Sharp
“Workplace pensions work: three lessons from today’s ONS stats (8 August 17)
More older workers retiring today benefit from decent workplace…Read more…
‘Golden hello’?
Doctors in training who agree to start their careers in coastal and rural areas – where recruiting GPs has been particularly tough – will receive a one-off £20,000 payment in plans announced today…Read more…
‘Now is the time to win for our members’
UNISON general secretary speaks at union’s police and justice service group conference
The article ‘Now is the time to win for our members’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Brexit no deal now ‘real threat’
Chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed the Brexit negotiations are moving at a snail’s pace that may result in the UK crashing out of the EU, in revealing evidence to the Treasury committee yesterday…Read more…
Stratford & East London Skyline
Picture from the balcony of East Thames (now L&Q) Housing headquarters in Stratford, Newham, London before a UNISON branch meeting. A stunning view of the Stratford & East London skyline including the Olympic Stadium, docklands and all the rece…Read more…
‘Only the start’
Unite deputy convenor at Bombardier Dougie Jamison lives right beside the factory where he works – a proud bulwark of highly skilled jobs and good wages in an area of Belfast otherwise blighted by…Read more…
MPs quiz ‘gig’ firm chiefs
A courier working for Hermes was punished after having to leave work when his pregnant partner was rushed to hospital after suffering complications, MPs heard yesterday (October 10) in a select…Read more…
Deeply concerned
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that the NHS pay cap will be scrapped but has not said if pay awards will be in line with inflation. The public sector pay cap has been in place for…Read more…
Good luck to UNISON Regional Council – an obstacle to progress has been removed
Today is the first meeting of UNISON’s Regional Council in Greater London (since its inception in 2004) at which I will be neither a delegate nor a member of the Regional Committee.
There may well not be a quorum, since there has not been a quorum at a…Read more…
World Mental Health day #WMHD
Some useful stuff from ACAS and UNISON. Remember that 1:6 adults had a common mental health problem last week.
Dear Colleague,
Today is World Mental Health day. This year’s theme is mental health in the workplace.
We have new guidan…Read more…
“A radical programme of action”
This is an article published in the Morning Star on October 10th 2017 Jeremy Corbyn’s conference announcement that Labour would be carrying out a review “of social housing policy – its building, planning, regulation and management” is very welcome. So is his comment that “Labour would speak…Read more…
Transport workers strike across Manchester
Industrial action has caused rail and bus delays across the North West this week By Jacob Rawling Workers from the First bus service and Northern Rail both went on strike this week in Manchester.1 On…Read more…