UNISON is helping work toward making the NHS in England meet its net zero target – and wants to hear from members working in the service
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The costs of loyalty
I’ve blogged a couple of times previously about the peculiar messaging around consumer ‘loyalty’. The repeated used of the phrase ‘loyalty penalty’, and the message that ‘loyalty doesn’t pay’ from both consumer groups and regulators feels very odd to m…Read more…
The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tomorrow and Tuesday I am taking part in a UNISON ERA (Employment Rights Act) refresher training n zoom.
As part of the preparation for the courses the Tutor from (conel.ac.uk) has asked us to watch beforehand this marvellous video of the wr…Read more…
Can our unions resist a national pay freeze?
One thing about having been blogging here for so long is that I can look back ten years and see that, in the run up to Xmas 2010 our movement was just beginning to gear up for action against the (then) threatened austerity measures of the new Coalition…Read more…
Post 2nd Lockdown circular walk around Little Baddow, Essex
Off message and hat tip to “Walking in Essex” by Peter Aylmer but today Gill and I went for a lovely 5 mile walk around Little Baddow, Essex, which is around 45 minutes drive from Forest Gate. The full walk is 10 miles but we split it in two.&nbs…Read more…
Labour must support the Bolivian people
Yesterday some of us managed to have a very enjoyable Xmas social organised by Brighton Pavilion Constituency Labour Party (CLP). This got me thinking about what socialists should be doing in the Labour Party in the coming year.
We very much ne…Read more…
“Why you should get a seasonal flu vaccine this year”
Following this advice from Public Access Gill and I went for a free seasonal flu injection at our local Pharmacy.
“Last month Public Health England warned that people who had been infected with both flu and COVID-19 faced serious conse…Read more…
Newham Council Pension Fund wins LAPF “Good Governance Award”
Good Governance AwardWinner: London Borough of NewhamFinalistsEssex Pension FundLondon Borough of NewhamWest Midlands Pension FundI was really pleased to see that Newham won this award on Tuesday. Great work by the Pension Committee C…Read more…
Local Government’s financial crisis – how should Labour respond?
Although it is now nearly a year since I was made redundant, I continue to engage with my UNISON Branch as a volunteer caseworker and I obviously care about the organisation for which I worked for 33 years. I was therefore concerned to see the latest r…Read more…
‘Rolls-Royce is at the heart of Barnoldswick’
Striking workers and the local community will come together on Saturday (December 5) to hold a car rally in support of the Rolls-Royce workers at Barnoldswick who have been on strike since last month…Read more…
Jersey Airport job losses rethink call
The redundancy programme involving Swissport workers at Jersey Airport is ‘going under the radar’ and needs a rethink now that Covid-19 vaccines are on the horizon, Unite said today (December 4)….Read more…
‘Tremendous victory’ in Doncaster bins dispute
Planned strikes by refuse workers employed by Suez Recycling and Recovery Ltd, on the outsourced Doncaster council contract, have been suspended after the company acted on the concerns of Unite. The…Read more…
Higher education members reject ‘insulting’ pay freeze
UNISON members vote overwhelmingly to reject the 0% pay offer, which amounts to a pay cut, in higher education
The article Higher education members reject ‘insulting’ pay freeze first…Read more…
Further education unions ‘outraged’ at pay offer
UNISON says college leaders have broken their pay promises and that pay in the FE sector is ‘simply too low’
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‘One job’ rule without pay pledge could plunge care staff into poverty and put residents at risk
Government must guarantee staff can work additional hours or get compensation for lost wages
The article ‘One job’ rule without pay pledge could plunge care staff into poverty and put residents at…Read more…
LAUNCH OF THE NEWHAM CAMPAIGN FOR A COMMITTEE STRUCTURE – Tuesday 8th December 7pm
“Join us on Zoom for a public online meeting to launch Newham Voting for Change – the campaign for a committee structure in Newham.
In May 2021 Newham will hold a referendum on how the local council is run. We are campaigning for the committee sy…Read more…
Keir Starmer supports “the fullest internal democracy” to avoid domination by “vertical hierarchies”. (Well, he did…)
A little more than thirty years ago a small group on (and outside) the Labour Left, one of whom would go on to become Director of Public Prosecutions, produced a few issues of a magazine which called for a better response to the defeats and setbacks su…Read more…
‘Death by a thousands cuts’
Unite has described Rolls-Royce’s announcement of fresh job losses as ‘choking the company’s future’, while the proposals to transfer or rundown parts of the business is…Read more…
‘It doesn’t matter if you sweep floors or you’re a surgeon, the NHS is one team’
UNISON’s One Team campaign gives NHS support staff the recognition they deserve – and Caroline Corbin is one of them
The article ‘It doesn’t matter if you sweep floors or you’re a surgeon, the…Read more…
West Ham Socialist Bakery & Red Flag Chocolate
Hat tip Country Standard. A fantastic historical clipping from “Labour Leader” newspaper Thursday 9 January 1913. The “Socialist and Labour Movement in West Ham” (now Newham) had set up a co-operative bakery not only to provide quality food and…Read more…