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Forest Gate North Labour selects Sasha, Anamul & Rachel

Feb 25, 2018By John's Labour blog

A great picture from the end of last night’s Labour Party selection meeting, where local members voted overwhelmingly to return their existing Councillors, Rachel Tripp and Anamul Islam, as candidates for the local elections in May. The vacant position…Read more…

Feb 25, 2018John's Labour blog

The Bitcoin Speculative Surge

Feb 25, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

The parasitism and decay within the economy is so pronounced, pay-the-rich schemes and scams have become normal and officially acceptable. In this regard, Bitcoin has begun trading on the…Read more…

Feb 25, 2018Rtuc's Blog

Re-selected as West Ham Labour (& future Co-operative Party) Councillor Candidate 2018

Feb 24, 2018By John's Labour blog

I am very pleased that I was reselected today as a Labour Party candidate for the local elections in May 2018 for West Ham ward in Newham, London.

Both myself and my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth, were affirmed at the first ballot.

Many, man…Read more…

Feb 24, 2018John's Labour blog

Probe call into ‘disappearing’ Carillion NHS pension contributions

Feb 24, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

22 February 2018 UNITE A top level probe into where the pension payments of NHS and other public sector workers, employed by Carillion, have ‘disappeared to’ was called for today (Thursday 22…Read more…

Feb 24, 2018Rtuc's Blog

Who Should Decide the Working and Learning Conditions in Schools?

Feb 24, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

The people who do the work should decide their terms of employment, and, in consultation with those directly affected by the work, they should also decide the direction of the sector. Teachers,…Read more…

Feb 24, 2018Rtuc's Blog

Carillion: A Criminally Corrupt Organisation Aided and Abetted by the Government

Feb 24, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

The recent collapse of Carillion is a vivid example of the ever-deepening crisis and criminally corrupt character of a system that is solely interested in paying the rich without regard for the needs…Read more…

Feb 24, 2018Rtuc's Blog

Collapse of Carillion and the NHS:

Feb 24, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

Collapse of Carillion and the NHS Fight for the Alternative to this Profit-Making Racket of Finance Capital in the NHS The collapse of Carillion brought to the fore the scale of the involvement of…Read more…

Feb 24, 2018Rtuc's Blog

South East London Campaign Stops Cuts In Children’s Mental Health:

Feb 23, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

The Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign (SLHC) recently led a successful fight to oppose proposed cuts to children’s mental health services in Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Rtuc's Blog

On the “dog & bone” 4 Rokhsana 4 Mayor

Feb 23, 2018By John's Labour blog

I love this picture from the telephone bank tonight of Newham Labour Party members supporting the selection of Councillor Rokhsana Fiaz as the Labour Party candidate to be our next Directly Elected Mayor.

As well as telephone canvassers, there were te…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018John's Labour blog

Living Wage – public sector leadership

Feb 23, 2018By Dave Watson

The living wage movement is an international one. There are differences in context and approach, but the underlying principles are the same.
I have spent the last two days in Ontario, Canada, as a…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Dave Watson

Blow to East Antrim economy

Feb 23, 2018By UNITElive

Employees at tyre pressure firm Sensata Technologies were informed by management this morning (February 23) that there would be one hundred and twenty-five jobs going at the company’s Carrickfergus…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018UNITElive

UNISON launches new mobile face-to-face advice service for workers in Edinburgh and the Lothians

Feb 23, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON is today (Friday) launching a new face-to-face advice service for employees working in care homes, GP practices or out in the community. The mobile advice unit – a custom-made vehicle with an…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Dave Prentis blog

End RBS branch closures call

Feb 23, 2018By UNITElive

Unite Scotland held RBS branch protests today (February 23) as the bank announced top line profits before tax of £2.2bn even amid a mass branch closure programme.   Even after tax, set aside for…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018UNITElive

Fujitsu demo

Feb 23, 2018By UNITElive

Protestors held a demonstration this morning (February 23) outside Fujitsu’s offices in Manchester. They accused the company of using the cover of redundancies to get rid of workers who blew the…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018UNITElive

AI and Jobs:

Feb 23, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs Posted on February 23, 2018 by Tony Burke http://www.powerinaunion.co.uk/tech-companies-should-stop-pretending-ai-wont-destroy-jobs/ The…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Rtuc's Blog

UNISON welcomes moves to protect apprentices

Feb 23, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

‘Largest apprenticeship provider in the north of England’ signs up to UNISON apprenticeships charter

The article UNISON welcomes moves to protect apprentices first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Dave Prentis blog

University Pensions Strikes Reports, BBC, NSSN, UCU:

Feb 23, 2018By Rtuc's Blog

Emotions run high on university pickets By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Ashley Hayward stands anxiously on the picket line outside the Senate House library in the heart of…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Rtuc's Blog

Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs

Feb 23, 2018By Power In A Union

The following blog is from MIT Technology Review and puts an alternative view on the current trend by some politicians and techies who argue that automation will  create more and new jobs. Of course…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Power In A Union

Public sector staff are overstretched and under-appreciated, says UNISON

Feb 23, 2018By Dave Prentis blog

Commenting on the TUC’s new analysis of unpaid overtime in the UK, released today (Friday) to coincide with the 14th annual Work Your Proper Hours Day. UNISON assistant general secretary Christina…Read more…

Feb 23, 2018Dave Prentis blog

Work Your Proper Hours Day – tackling the culture of unpaid overtime

Feb 23, 2018By TUC blogs

UK workers gave their employers £31.2 billion of free labour last year, doing a grand total of two billion hours unpaid overtime.Read more…

Feb 23, 2018TUC blogs
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