Presentation caps a busy morning that saw delegates debate a wide range of topics, including the climate crisis
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Review: Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin
Do books come any scarier than this? I guess they do. The Exorcist was pretty terrifying. But Ira Levin’s great skill as a story-teller reveals itself here in creating a world that is both…Read more…
Ringing West Hammers about Boris & 2 Job MPs
This afternoon I was supposed to go out knocking on doors and speaking to residents with our MP, Lyn Brown. However, it was cancelled, so instead I decided to ring residents in the ward I represent as a Councillor, West Ham.
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Shadow equalities minister pledges equalisation of hate crime law
Taiwo Owatemi MP – a UNISON member – addressed UNISON’s LGBT+ conference and thanked members for their work in the pandemic
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Delegates pledge to fight back against rising tide of transphobia
Meeting on Transgender Day of Remembrance, LGBT+ conference backs a raft of motions to fight back against ‘an attack on all of us’
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Christina McAnea thanks activists at LGBT+ conference
Christina McAnea took to the rostrum at UNION’s LGBT+ conference in Brighton this morning, to deliver a message of hope, of pride and of gratitude, mixed with anger at the antics of the Tory…Read more…
Birthday drinks and curry 2011 & 2021
Top picture was from last night and bottom was 2011. Monty, Trev, Dave and I used to work for Tower Hamlets Council Housing. We were also UNISON activists. Thanks to Aromas Restaurant in Forest Gate for great food now and then.
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School support staff finally included in wellbeing charter
UNISON has signed up to the charter after forcing the Department for Education to acknowledge role of all school staff
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‘Landmark case’ in fight against NHS hiving-off
The takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022 after more than £70,000 has been raised by the public to…Read more…
Time for tea? Time for talks more like
Unite has called for urgent talks with consumer goods giant Unilever, following the sale of its tea division to private equity group CVC Capital Partners, part of the group at the heart of the…Read more…
Damp and Mould – It’s not lifestyle.
This is spot on. As a Housing officer and a Councillor, I have been arguing this point as long as I can remember. The stock response of telling all residents it is always their “fault” for damp and mould due to their “lifestyle” is simply w…Read more…
Workers must not pay for pandemic
Unite’s leader Sharon Graham said the union will continue to base claims on the RPI (retail price index) figure rather that CPI (consumer price index) because it better reflects the actual price rise…Read more…
‘An act of industrial vandalism’
Unite has today (November 18) described the government’s decision to cancel the HS2 spur to Leeds as an ‘act of industrial vandalism’.
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Review: The Boys from Brazil, by Ira Levin
Having recently read a new novel about the creation of a Nazi Fourth Reich set in 2012, I wanted to return to this classic thriller. I noticed two things immediately: first of all, the prospects…Read more…
The Good and Bad – UNISON Labour Link & Self Organisation
Excellent news yesterday about the UNISON National Labour Link committee elections.
“Congratulations to my UNISON friends and colleagues Linda Hobson and Sian Stockham on being elected as Chair and Vice Chair of the UNISON National Labour Link Commit…Read more…
Public service workers are falling way behind spiralling living costs
Rocketing inflation leaves staff struggling and harms recruitment
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The not so ‘Great Resignation’
There has been a lot of talk about ‘The Great Resignation’ in the media and HR circles. However, for some sectors, this is not new and certainly predated the pandemic.
I have been doing some HR work…Read more…
Labour’s Fair Pay Agreements (winning back support from working class voters)
This evening I enjoyed a tasty curry in Whitechapel with a UNISON comrade. During which we discussed how Labour Leader, Keir Starmer, can win back economic left minded but often socially conservative working class voters.
I have been meaning since Par…Read more…
Blog: The Living Wage increase – still a long way to go on fair pay
But we shouldn’t be under any illusion – by itself the Living Wage does not offer a long-term solution to a UK labour market characterised by low pay, persistent gender and ethnicity pay gaps, and…Read more…
Woolwich Ferry workers to strike again
Commuters using the Woolwich Ferry face a festive season of travel disruption as workers vote to strike after nearly ‘a year of misrule’ by Transport for London (TfL) bosses. Unite the union said the…Read more…