HM Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy(external link) have commissioned the City of London Corporation to lead an independent taskforce to boost socio-economic diversity in UK financial and professional services.
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Oh well… let’s have a nice cup of tea (UNISON NEC results 2021)
This morning I found out that I had not been re-elected as a UNISON NEC member for Community.
Which was a blow but I offer sincere congratulations to my opponent Kevin Jackson on his election.
Kevin is a former long serving Chair of our Communi…Read more…
How does UNISON elect its President and Vice-Presidents?
As a service to readers of this blog, particularly those who believed that the UNISON NEC elects one Vice-President each year, with the Junior Vice-President going on to become Senior Vice-President a year later, and President a year thereafter, …Read more…
Bromley library win
Unite the union has hailed victory in the dispute at Bromley Central Library over late night openings with fewer staff. Talks this week with the employer social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited…Read more…
UNISON National Executive Council shifts to the left
The results of the elections to the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) declared today mark a significant shift to the left. 36 of the successful candidates had supported Paul Holmes (who had come a strong second in the General Secretary elec…Read more…
Blog: Why G7 leaders need to work much harder on vaccine access
The US donation of half a billion vaccines may sound impressive – but it’s a drop in the ocean. Vaccine manufacturing rights need to be freed up now
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Lancashire biomedical scientists strikes continue
Hardline NHS bosses at a Lancashire NHS trust have, so far, spurned the offer of any talks, including under the auspices of conciliation service Acas, to resolve the biomedical scientists’ upgrading…Read more…
The Future of People Services – What’s Next? The death of the office & Wellbeing and burnout
Check out this multimedia posting –
“Welcome to this collaborative piece of research between the Disruptive Innovators Network and Campbell Tickell to explore how leaders in people and HR services have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and what…Read more…
One Voice
Joint statement on health and care staff wellbeing.
The article One Voice first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Energy conference tackles climate change and equality
Debates make history as the first UNISON virtual conference
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There was no protective ring around social care
Big mistakes were made with dire consequences
The article There was no protective ring around social care first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Vaccine sharing programme must be top of G7 agenda
Rights waiver will make the world safer
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Tackling NHS backlogs must begin with a proper pay rise
Stopping exodus of staff and attracting recruits is key
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Designing online forms to engage with workers about their work
In the TUC Digital Lab we’ve been doing some research into using different formats of work advice to find and engage with non-member workers. We’ll publish more about this soon, but I…Read more…
Make your voice heard
Unite’s current general secretary Len McCluskey is standing down – and the race to be his successor has already started. Who will be the next leader of Unite? Unite is urging members to make sure…Read more…
Elton, Caster Highlands & Oundle walks
During the last Bank holiday weekend, Gill and I went on some superb walks in the Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire border. Beautiful countryside and historic stone villages. It reminds me of the Cotswolds without all the tourists.
All t…Read more…
Scrapping of electrician deskilling plans welcomed
Unite has welcomed the announcement by contractors Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey that they remain committed to the Joint Industry Board (JIB) agreement and the training of fully qualified…Read more…
‘Counterproductive’ redundancies
Members of Unite will hold a socially distanced protest tomorrow outside the Leeds debt support charity StepChange from 12.30pm over ‘counterproductive’ plans to slash up to 170 jobs. The ending of…Read more…
Review: Stalin’s War: A New History of the Second World War, by Sean McMeekin
Sean McMeekin is an interesting historian and has written some fascinating books encouraging the rest of us to take a new look at things like the Russian Revolution or the Communist International….Read more…
Weetabix strikes announced
Engineers employed by Weetabix at its factories in Northamptonshire will begin strike action later this month in a dispute over the company’s plans to fire and rehire them resulting in a huge cut in…Read more…