Company has rejected UNISON’s offer of serious talks over cutting carers’ sleep-in shift payments
Solidarity to AFG strikers hat tip UNISON website
“Over 650 UNISON members employed by the Alternative Futures Group (AFG) begin seven days of strike acti…Read more…
‘Costly shambles’
Unite has branded the Ministry of Defence’s privatisation of its firefighter service ‘a complete shambles’ and vowed to ensure its members are fully protected, after the MoD agreed a last minute deal…Read more…
Welcome to the world!
Britons welcomed the birth of the latest Royal baby, who arrived just in time for the Bank Holiday on Monday, May 6. While Harry and Meghan will wrestle with many of the same challenges new parents…Read more…
‘Dark satanic mills’ of the 21st century?
Sports Direct isn’t the only retailer whose warehouse working conditions are shockingly draconian – new figures out today (May 7) reveal a high number of ambulance call-outs to retailer warehouses JD…Read more…
Bangor University staff celebrate victory in pensions dispute
Management had planned to cut pension benefits by up to 12% for support staff before UNISON campaign
The article Bangor University staff celebrate victory in pensions dispute first appeared on the…Read more…
Hawarden Park Walk: Gladstone, Dad, Airbus, Bagpipes, Ken Taylor and Bilberry Woods walk…
Off message but a post from a lovely 5 mile Easter walk in North Wales (pathfinder guide walk 5 “North Wales, Snowdon and Offa’s Dyke”).
I was brought up only a couple of miles away in Buckley, but have not been back to this area since, so…Read more…
Corporate governance, again
There have been a few developments over the past week or two that play into the argument I’ve been making that 1990s-style corporate governance is come under serious pressure to change.
1. Polling from the resolutely centrist Progressive Cen…Read more…
A STATEMENT BY ABDULLAH ÖCALAN’S LAWYERS
Asrin Law Office lawyers held a press conference today on the meeting Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan held with his lawyers on May 2. Lawyers Faik Özgür Erol, Newroz Uysal and Rezan Sarica…Read more…
Politcal prisoner Adullah Ocalan meets his lawyers
The Turkish-imprisoned political prisoner and founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, received a visit by his lawyers on May 2nd, for the first time since 2011, a…Read more…
No Coup or war in Venezuela
After last weeks Trump – Bolton backed coup attempt your help in supporting the Venezeula Solidarity Campaign it is more important than ever before Please donate to the VSC special appeal. As…Read more…
The time you work is yours – so why don't you control it?
New technology should be helping workers switch off, not keeping them on call round the clock.Read more…
UNISON Labour Link campaigning for Labour in Kent Council elections Thursday 2 May
On Thursday I went to support Labour candidates standing in the local elections in Kent. There were no London Council elections this year. Our West Ham Labour MP, Lyn Brown (a long standing UNISON member and Shadow Finance Minister) came along with Car…Read more…
UNISON NEC Elections – Less than 2 weeks to go!!
Less than 2 Weeks to go (ballot papers must be posted back by Friday 17 May)What’s the election for?All seats are up for election on UNISON’s national executive council (or ‘NEC”) It acts as our union “Parliament” in between our annual conference).The …Read more…
Newham to save £143 million by terminating a big bad LOBO
Fantastic news! Newham will save some £3.5 million interest per year (including £1.5 million extra off our housing loans). Many thanks to all those who fought for justice so long including our new Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, Cllr John Whitworth as well as Ne…Read more…
Keep our jobs and skills plea
The futures of nearly 4,000 key manufacturing jobs in Northern Ireland could be in now doubt following Bombardier’s announcement yesterday (May 2) that the Canadian aerospace giant is to sell its…Read more…
Sandwell Council staff celebrate victory in grading dispute
Members in UNISON and Unite had voted 100% to take industrial action before council re-graded them
The article Sandwell Council staff celebrate victory in grading dispute first appeared on the…Read more…
Pay rise victory for privatised NHS workers
Catering workers at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have won their pay battle after two days of strike action, says UNISON. Their employer Sodexo had previously…Read more…
AFG workers set to begin seven-day strike
Company has rejected UNISON’s offer of serious talks over cutting carers’ sleep-in shift payments
The article AFG workers set to begin seven-day strike first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Probation privatisation has been a shambles and must end now, says UNISON
Time to return services to public control
The article Probation privatisation has been a shambles and must end now, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The loyalty ‘penalty’
A few months back I blogged some initial thoughts about the idea of loyalty. To recap, I find it jarring that various bodies increasingly try and encourage us to be disloyal. While I get that it’s silly to be ‘loyal’ to a utility provider (or insert yo…Read more…