Speaking at UNISON’s annual Black Members Conference today (Friday) in Llandudno, general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Last the NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary, yet the descendants of those that…Read more…
Blog: Just as we took on Enoch Powell and his rivers of blood, we will fight today’s hate-mongers
It’s a difficult and worrying time for anyone who cares about the equality and fights injustice. Sometimes battling against bigotry, racism and xenophobia can feel like an impossible task. But I know…Read more…
Prentis says ‘no-deal Brexit’ would be disastrous for workers
General secretary tells Black members’ conference that UNISON is vital in the fight against an ‘incompetent and malicious’ government
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UNISON – standing together to fight racism and xenophobia
Black members’ conference is united around the need to work together to injustice and bigotry
The article UNISON – standing together to fight racism and xenophobia first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
‘Cheap Chinese imports’ threat
The loss of 300 jobs at Cooper Tires at Melksham, Wiltshire has been blamed on ‘cheap Chinese tyre imports’ by Unite today (January 18). “We are blaming the continued dumping of…Read more…
Treated with contempt
Both NHS staff and patients are being treated with contempt, as the lurch toward privatisation continues unabated, and NHS bosses mismanage what little funding the health service has in the midst of…Read more…
Review: Soviet Opposition to Stalin – A case study in World War II, by George Fischer
This short book was an early history of Vlasov movement, which during the second world war aimed to create a Russian army of “liberation” that would fight side by side with the Germans…Read more…
More short stuff
Again, huge caveat that the data in these charts is only 0.5%+ short positions, but some interesting stuff I think. At the end of play yesterday the FCA had disclosed 581 current short positions of 0.5% and above. So I looked at which firms had the mos…Read more…
Union innovation in Denmark – HK Lab
Mathias Askholm co-leads HK Lab, an ambitious innovation project at Denmark’s HK union that is helping the union and its members adapt to the implications of technological change. He joined us for a…Read more…
A year after Carillion, it's time to shine a light on public service outsourcing
Outsourcing giant Carillion’s collapse symbolised the bankruptcy of the privatisation dogma – we need a new Domesday Book to make public service contracts transparentRead more…
Malvern Hills New Year Walks 2019. Joy & Sadness
Mostly off message but Gill and spent new year in Great Malvern, Worcestershire. We had never been here before but I had seen the historical railway poster (see bottom right) and thought it might be a good place to go walking.
It turned out to be a fa…Read more…
Long, short and managing the pension scheme
No deal lorry ‘chaos’
Ministers are ignoring the needs of lorry drivers in their planning for a potential no deal Brexit, Unite said today (January 17).
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Energy policy lights out
Unite has said Hitachi’s announcement today (17 January) that work is being suspended on a £20bn nuclear power station is proof the “lights are going out on a coherent UK energy policy”. …Read more…
Even More Duplicate Reporting 2: The Boilerplate Strikes Back
Neptune (looks like an old statement, but hey)
We will continue any dialogue with the company over an extended period where deemed necessary. Escalation of our engagement activities, including any engagement with other investors, will depend on the co…Read more…
Liverpool signs up to UNISON’s End Violence at Work charter
City council becomes first to make union’s charter a key part of its commissioning process
The article Liverpool signs up to UNISON’s End Violence at Work charter first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Lords committee slams rip-off in inflation management
A parliamentary enquiry has agreed with the TUC and unions, and rejected UKSA’s claim that RPI is ‘fundamentally flawed’.Read more…
Nominate John & Denise for UNISON NEC Community seats 2019
The UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) is our union parliament which oversees the running of the union in between our annual National Conference, which are held each year in in June. UNISON members vote every 2 years by postal ballot to thei…Read more…
St Mungo’s fight goes on
Unite St Mungo’s reps today (January 16) manned a union stall outside the housing charity’s annual staff conference in London in an effort to recruit more members and engage with workers whose terms…Read more…
‘Disgraceful behaviour’
Bumper bonuses for top bosses at NHS Property Services are ‘a disgrace’, as the health service grapples with a funding crisis and growing waiting lists, Unite has said. Media reports said that…Read more…