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This tweet from Which? caught my eye the other day, and is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:
The tweet (which is currently pinned!) referred to the cost of sticking with the same broadband providers, and it reminded me of a similar tw…Read more…
“Dear John
Tomorrow I’m publishing a new report which reveals the extent to which former council homes sold through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords. In advance of its publication I wanted to share some of the individual b…Read more…
Leaders of two of Norway’s largest labour unions have merged. Together they will represent around 160,000 workers in the transport, construction, hotel, restaurant and automobile sectors….Read more…
On the final morning of UNISON’s Black member’s conference, delegates opened with an emotional debate on the tragic toll of knife crime and how to combat the problem. Paulette Whyte for the national…Read more…
“I was a minister in Netanyahu’s government and know it’s impossible to create change from there.” Those are the words of Avi Gabbay, the embattled leader of Israel’s rapidly-fading Labor Party. But…Read more…
Great picture from a chilly Llandudno, North Wales this morning. UNISON black members conference is taking place here. Members were out leafleting delegates as they arrived for conference.
NEC branch nominations last until 15 February. Read more…
Carol Sewell urges Black members to be the ‘best they can be’ in UNISON
The article Former vice president issues inspiring call to action first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Black members share stories of individuals and families whose lives have been affected by the scandal
The article Windrush ‘nightmare’ won’t end until ‘hostile environment’ does first appeared on…Read more…
Gordon McKay uses speech to damn a government working to ‘undermine and punish working people’
The article President thanks Black members for all their work first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Mo Mohammed says it’s one thing for public services to recruit a diverse workforce but another to retain it
The article Nelson Mandela Award winner issues challenge to employers first appeared on…Read more…
Speaking at UNISON’s annual Black Members Conference today (Friday) in Llandudno, general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Last the NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary, yet the descendants of those that…Read more…
It’s a difficult and worrying time for anyone who cares about the equality and fights injustice. Sometimes battling against bigotry, racism and xenophobia can feel like an impossible task. But I know…Read more…
General secretary tells Black members’ conference that UNISON is vital in the fight against an ‘incompetent and malicious’ government
The article Prentis says ‘no-deal Brexit’ would be…Read more…
Black members’ conference is united around the need to work together to injustice and bigotry
The article UNISON – standing together to fight racism and xenophobia first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The loss of 300 jobs at Cooper Tires at Melksham, Wiltshire has been blamed on ‘cheap Chinese tyre imports’ by Unite today (January 18). “We are blaming the continued dumping of…Read more…
Both NHS staff and patients are being treated with contempt, as the lurch toward privatisation continues unabated, and NHS bosses mismanage what little funding the health service has in the midst of…Read more…
This short book was an early history of Vlasov movement, which during the second world war aimed to create a Russian army of “liberation” that would fight side by side with the Germans…Read more…
Again, huge caveat that the data in these charts is only 0.5%+ short positions, but some interesting stuff I think. At the end of play yesterday the FCA had disclosed 581 current short positions of 0.5% and above in UK shares. So I looked at which firm…Read more…
Mathias Askholm co-leads HK Lab, an ambitious innovation project at Denmark’s HK union that is helping the union and its members adapt to the implications of technological change. He joined us for a…Read more…
Outsourcing giant Carillion’s collapse symbolised the bankruptcy of the privatisation dogma – we need a new Domesday Book to make public service contracts transparentRead more…