Many thanks to Cllr Asser, Cabinet member for Environment, for getting the impact site of a West Ham ward Nazi V2 Rocket attack on 1 Feb 1945, turned into a beautiful wild flowers memorial. 29 Residents were killed that night and many more injure…Read more…
Conference continues debate on the cost of living
Three motions on the issue were debated on Friday morning – including the effect on Black workers and renters
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Conference continues debate on the cost of living
Three motions on the issue were debated on Friday morning – including the effect on Black workers and renters
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NEC elects new presidential team
Libby Nolan is president, with Steve North and Julia Mwaluke in support
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Getting the best deals on tech for unions – lessons from negotiation and group-buying at the ACTU
Modern unions buy in so many different types of services. At the Australian union federation ACTU’s Union Innovation Hub we’ve looked across a huge range of them to try to save our unions money. In terms of digital tools, that’s included things like CRM, websites, survey tools, event tools, campaign tools, learning management systems, membership … Continue reading Getting the best deals on tech for unions – lessons from negotiation and group-buying at the ACTU
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Review: Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less, by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
Write shorter sentences. Use one syllable words where possible. That’s the message of this short book, which is padded with lots of empty space, some forgettable graphics and endless advertising for the authors’ software which…Read more…
Fathers Day 2023
Today is always a little difficult for me (and no doubt my sisters Helen and Lucy) despite it being over 21 years since we lost our father, John Gray, in 2002. Picture from his Labour Party election leaflet for Buckley Town Council in late 1950’s….Read more…
Review: Replay, by Ken Grimwood
If you’ve seen the movies ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ you’ve got the plot of Replay. The novel begins with the death of 43-year-old Jeff Winston — who immediately re-awakens a quarter century…Read more…
UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023: Day 4
Final Day of Conference (Friday). It started with an informal meeting with shadow minister for mental health, Rosena Allin-Khan MP with Greater London UNISON delegates. Who shared with Rosena unison issues and successes in health, LAS, Polic…Read more…
Conference celebrates – and resolves to do more – for Black workers
UNISON’s Year of Black Workers is an opportunity to celebrate the union’s long history of challenging racism in the workplace and come up with practical steps for further change
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Avoid outsourcing services unless there’s a clear public benefit, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says essential public services should be run for the public, not for profit
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High housing costs driving up poverty among public service workers, says UNISON
Report shows rapid rise in rent and mortgage payments is taking significant toll
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‘We will defend our right to strike – and our right to vote’
UNISON delegates stand up for their rights as activists and voters
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UNISON presents Dr Neville Lawrence with honorary membership
‘I am standing here 30 years later because of you, and all the other different unions who have been with us over the past 30 years’
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Rosena Allin-Khan shares Labour’s vision for mental health
The shadow minister for mental health celebrated NHS workers and laid out Labour’s vision for mental health
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Police forces in England and Wales could face a combined budget shortfall of more than £700m by 2026, warns UNISON
Without more funding to plug these huge budget shortfalls, public confidence in the police will continue to fall.
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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2023- Day three
Today (Thursday) I still have “conference lurgy” so skipped the morning run again. Another glorious blue sky day. Nice to have a name check in the Morning Star from yesterday’s debate “the NEC shouldn’t go off and be a lone ranger” and picture of my Co…Read more…
UNISON NDC 23 – Labour Link Fringe with Angela Rayner MP & Christina McAnea
There was a great fringe yesterday evening by UNISON Labour Link with former activist Angela Rayner turned MP and our General Secretary Christina McAnea (chaired by National Labour Link lead, Linda Hobson). Angela was on form with a confiden…Read more…
‘Historical achievement’
Unite, together with trade unions across the world, achieved unprecedented new policy guidelines for promoting the UN’s Decent Work Agenda for the agri-food sector, after intense negotiations in May. The International Labour Organization (ILO) convened the meeting in early May, which brought together representatives from unions under the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) umbrella, […]
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Heartbreaking stories of workplace harassment heard at NDC
A TUC report found that 68% of disabled women workers had been sexually harassed at work
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