Staff mustn’t heave to leave jobs to get decent pay
The article Ministers must stop public sector worker wages falling so far behind, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Wizz Air Luton passengers face ‘serious disruption’
Wizz Air passengers at Luton airport will face ‘serious disruption’ if baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London Ground Handling Services vote to strike over pay. Unite said around…Read more…
Coventry bin strikes to escalate
A “catalogue of failures” and “rank incompetence” on the part of Coventry council means the long-running Coventry bin strike will continue into the summer after HGV drivers voted for further…Read more…
Culture change in Lambeth?
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase for next to nothing at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.This concerns changes made to Lambeth council’s Human Resources function, dur…Read more…
UNISON launches new manifesto for social work
Move comes on International Social Work Day and explores both the state of social work in the UK today and the union’s hopes for the future
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Pension scammers screw up lives
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“Pension scammers screw up lives. With up to 5% of all transfers estimated to be scams there are devastating financial and emotional consequences for scheme members. But you can help. The industry is best placed to identify and stop potential sca…Read more…
Blog: Why solidarity with Ukraine is the only way
Like everyone else I’ve watched the news of the war in Ukraine with a mixture of disbelief, horror and disgust. And there is no respite in sight
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Manchester mayor accelerates bus franchising plans
Unite, which represents over 70,000 bus workers, has welcomed the decision of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to accelerate his plans to introduce bus franchising in the city region. In the…Read more…
Ukraine – share your stories
UNISON wants to hear from Ukrainian and Russian members, as well as branches who are seeking to help the victims of war
The article Ukraine – share your stories first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Supply teachers in Wales are treated as second class citizens by schools and agencies
At Wales TUC we want to see supply teachers receive the rewards they deserve as dedicated educators. We’ve raised the issue with Welsh Government and are pushing for an end to the private agency…Read more…
Blog: UK government should take notice of the new disability charter
The ground-breaking Disability Employment Charter, which UNISON co-founded, calls for a legal two-week limit in responding to reasonable adjustments
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An off colour remark…
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase inexpensively at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
This concerns a staff conference held by Lambeth Council on the Southbank in 2001;
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Joyce Conway – Greenwich COHSE
COHSE and Unison Branch Secretary
Brook and Greenwich District Hospital ,later Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Greenwich)
Joyce Helen Conway MBE
7th August 1932 – 17th August 2008
Service of Rememberance
Eltham crematorium (Falconwood) 1st Septem…Read more…
Hertford & the Cole Green Way walk
Off message but a nice but wet walk today with Gill starting in Hertford. A http://www.pathfinderwalks.co.uk/our-books/pathfinder-hertfordshire-bedfordshire/ circular walk, some 45 minutes from East London by car and accessible by train.
As…Read more…
1999 – marches and banners
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase (perhaps as a Mother’s Day present) for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
The spring of 1999 saw me carrying equally he…Read more…
Labour Canvass – Maud Gardens then Olympic Park (a plaque to the Pentonville Five?)
This morning I went on a Labour canvass in my ward, West Ham with my fellow Councillor John Whitworth and local activist Asheem Singh.
We went to Maud Gardens which is a small low rise housing estate. We picked up a lot of case work and …Read more…
The Hillingdon hospital strike, Trotsky’s birthday and the revolution
A birthday boy
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, the true enormity of which you can purchase for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
In 1996 I spent a year serving as UNISON deputy…Read more…
Baked Bean Lasagne
Here’s another extract from my memoirs, the full horror of which you can purchase for a nominal price at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
By 1993 I had become branch secretary of NALGO in Lambeth and …Read more…
Merrie England – Robert Blatchford
“A year before the issue of Merrie England, there were not 500 Socialists in Lancashire. A year after there were 50,000.”
Alex Thompson
TUC Nurses Charter 1937
NUCO
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