What’s needed is the proper reform that can only come from a national care service.
The article Care changes are a start but won’t solve staffing crisis first appeared on the UNISON National site.
2024: Year of LGBT+ workers
“2024 is @unisontheunion ‘s Year of LGBT+ workers. This year we’re celebrating all of our LGBT+ members and showing why we are the best union for LGBT+ public service workers. Are you a UNISON LGBT+ member? Get involved: https://unison.org.uk/about/wha…Read more…
What’s the faith and belief network?
Trade unions tackle a range of issues. We campaign to change policy and improve life for working people across the country. We represent our members; fight for dignity and respect at work; and we fight against in-work poverty and deprivation. And we p…Read more…
‘This year will be defined by political choices’
This year will be another defined by the political choices we make. With the severity of our predicament becoming ever clearer, the only difference will be the importance of the decisions being taken. If Britain were a hospital patient most doctors would mark us down as being in a “bad way”, our recovery touch and […]
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Get signed up! Love to Learn. TUC courses 2024
TUC Education courses – 2024Find out more about courses running in your area from January 2024.Our courses offer essential training for reps and help you develop your skills.ScotlandNorthern RegionNorth West RegionYorkshire and the…Read more…
Tough political decisions
It could be a long political year if today’s election pitches are anything to go by. Anas Sarwar was making a pitch to Yes voters in Rutherglen. It is a smart move given that despite the SNP’s woes, the dial has barely moved on support for i…Read more…
Protect the right to strike as the Tories act to axe workers’ rights
Join the TUC-organised march and rally in Cheltenham on 27 January
The article Protect the right to strike as the Tories act to axe workers’ rights first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Protect the right to strike as the Tories act to axe workers’ rights
Join the TUC-organised march and rally in Cheltenham on 27 January
The article Protect the right to strike as the Tories act to axe workers’ rights first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Are newly registered nurses still ‘thrown in at the deep end’?
New survey investigates the current state of support received by new nurses, midwives and nursing associates
The article Are newly registered nurses still ‘thrown in at the deep end’? first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Are newly registered nurses still ‘thrown in at the deep end’?
New survey investigates the current state of support received by new nurses, midwives and nursing associates
The article Are newly registered nurses still ‘thrown in at the deep end’? first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Exploring the Elizabeth Line: Brentwood to Harold Wood
Today Gill and I tested out a walk in a new book “Exploring the Elizabeth Line” by Jeff Lock. The new Cross London East to West (“Lizzie”) rail line from Shenfield to Reading has been a boom for commuters and travellers (but so far somewhat unreliable)…Read more…
Review: Some Service to the State, by Aidan McQuade
Aidan McQuade’s first novel, The Undiscovered Country (2020), was a bit of a hybrid — part crime novel, part history of Ireland in the period just after Partition. It was terrific because McQuade is both…Read more…
High Pay Day 2024
Hat tip High Pay Centre and brilliant cartoon which I cannot remember source.
“We have estimated that FTSE 100 CEOs’ earnings for 2024 will surpass the median UK worker’s full time annual salary tod…Read more…
RISHI’S RAW DEAL -Pay £10 more tax and get £2 off
Poster campaign launched today in Wellingborough where Labour candidate, Gen Kitchen is campaigning to replace disgraced Tory MP, Peter Bone. Hat tip Independent “From Saturday, the main rate of national insurance will be cut by two percentage points …Read more…
TUC Pensions Conference 2024: pensions under the next government
I have just registered. https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-pensions-conference-2024-pensions-under-next-governmentOverviewRegistrations are now open for the TUC Pensions Conference 2024 on Wednesday 13 March at Congress House, London. With a g…Read more…
Countdown to London 26 Mile Winter Walk 2024 – 24/25 days training days to go
I am taking part in a sponsored 26 mile walking marathon at the end of this month for the homelessness charity St Mungos with colleagues from work. Most of the recent holiday was spent walking in the Peak district which was good cross training but…Read more…
Protect the right to strike
Trade unions are once again under Tory attack from this government. One in five workers is losing their right to strike. Repressive minimum service levels (MSLs) are being imposed to force unions to ‘police’ their own strikes and even cross picket lines.
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Goodbye to all that
Sad to say goodbye to this, but I’m not blogging here anymore. The good news is that I am doing a free substack newsletter called The Social Factor here.Read more…
Blog “Let’s make 2024 a success – Vote in our service group elections and celebrate UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ Workers” Christina McAnea
“Happy New Year to everyone in UNISON and here’s to a successful year for you and your families.I have high hopes for 2024 – 12 months of campaigning for UNISON’s Year of LGBT+ workers and for a national care service, securing pay deals across all publ…Read more…
Review: The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin
I read this book, the first in the series of 13 novels about the late 19th century Russian detective Erast Fandorin, when it first appeared some twenty years ago. I remember little about the plot,…Read more…