https://www.barnet.gov.uk/citizen-home/council-and-democracy/democracy-and-elections/election-feedback.html
Loony-right Tory Barnet Council, whose Chief Executive has resigned since the unprecedented events of last Thursday week, when voters were denie…Read more…
Cock-up not conspiracy!
Your blogger has it on the highest authority that cock-up rather than conspiracy accounts for the unfortunate coincidence which has seen the UNISON Online Conference System (OCS) unable to accept Emergency Motions to Local Government Conference just at…Read more…
Senior official accepts responsibility!
http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-05-09/chief-executive-of-barnet-resigns-after-election-day-blunder/
Anything which pleases my friends and comrades in Barnet UNISON pleases me.
So I was very pleased to see that, following the unprecedented election …Read more…
Cynicism as ideology? A lecture to the workers from their employees…
http://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/local-government-pay-disarray
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Marxist-Leninist) will know that your blogger has – over the years – paid unreasonable attention to the meanderings of a bizarre xenophobic sect on t…Read more…
UNISON and the Trade Union Bill – further concessions
https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2016/04/unison-welcomes-governments-change-of-heart-on-trade-union-bill-proposals/ Following on from the Government climbing down from its plan to ban deduction of union subscriptions from salaries in the public sector, the further concessions…Read more…
Capitulation to pay cut signals end of national pay bargaining in local government?
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2016/04/unison-moves-accept-council-pay-deal
It would not have been wise to have blogged immediately about the abysmal outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Joint Council (NJC) Committee.
Even your blog…Read more…
UNISON and SERTUC – time to re-think
News reaches your humble blogger (from an Annual General Meeting) that one of the three unsuccessful candidates from amongst the 19 candidates contesting 16 seats on the Executive of the Southern and Eastern Region of the Trades Union Congress (SERTUC)…Read more…
The future of UNISON?
What would people who care about the future of UNISON be doing in the run up to our National Delegate Conference?I suppose that part of the answer to that question depends upon identifying the people to whom it is (implicitly?) addressed.Those who care…Read more…
An excellent result for UNISON – credit where it’s due
https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2016/04/unison-welcomes-government-change-of-heart-over-check-off/
Although (of course) I am not in the front rank of those who will praise UNISON’s leadership (albeit I am consistently clear that our General Secretary has done no wrong – and that I am…Read more…
Local Government Pay – the story continues
Following a full and frank exchange of views between members of the Industrial Action Committee (IAC) of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) yesterday afternoon, the Committee was then pleased to agree unanimously a proposal from the Chair.
The d…Read more…
The future of UNISON?
One issue which is not on the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of our National Executive Council (NEC) nor the Preliminary Agenda for our National Delegate Conference (NDC) is the issue of the future of UNISON.
What will UNISON look like in ten – or twent…Read more…
Conference priorities on branch funding – it’s as easy as 123
UNISON branches wondering what motions to prioritise on the Preliminary Agenda for our National Delegate Conference in Brighton in June should look favourably on Motion 123.
This motion, from the West Sussex, Manchester, Salford and Barnet branches pro…Read more…
The end of national pay bargaining in local government?
Tomorrow UNISON’s Industrial Action Committee will meet to consider a request from the lay Committee representing the largest bargaining sector in the Union (which is also the largest bargaining group in the UK economy) for a strike ballot of local gov…Read more…
Why a vote to leave the EU would be detrimental to workers’ rights
https://www.tuc.org.uk/international-issues/europe/eu-referendum/workers’-rights-europe-impact-brexit
I recommend activists spend some time looking at the independent legal opinion commissioned by the TUC and linked to above – particularly those inclin…Read more…
What next for the Trade Union Bill?
The Trade Union Bill is still at the report stage in the House of Lords, where it will be debated again on 19 April before being sent back to the House of Commons.
The Government could seek to reverse the amendments which have been, and may be, agreed in the Lords – but it is a testament to the…Read more…
UNISON to step up opposition to Government
In a surprise move, UNISON has announced a dramatic escalation of opposition to the Tory Government.
Stung by the legal restrictions planned by the Government in its Trade Union Bill, and inspired by the revolutionary movements in Latin America, the v…Read more…
UNISON General Secretary election – see no STV, hear no STV, speak no STV
Without making (in this post) any other comment about the recent election for UNISON General Secretary, I can remind diligent readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) that – for the first time this century – the winning candidate commanded the supp…Read more…
UNISON, the Trade Union Bill and the law – a sorry saga set to unfold?
As we head towards UNISON’s June Conference we can anticipate unanimous support for Motion 46 from the National Executive Council (NEC) which rightly describes the Trade Union Bill as “the biggest assault upon working people’s rights in living memory.”…Read more…
GMB – the weakest link on local government pay?
http://i.emlfiles1.com/cmpdoc/4/6/6/7/2/1/files/11686_pay-justice-2016-bulletin-issue-09.pdf?dm_i=2QI8,70HO,8OJEG,LZPL,1This is a link to the latest pay bulletin from UNISON’s local government section. It reports quite rightly that members of both UNISON and UNITE have rejected the employers’…Read more…
Solidarity with the NUT!
http://www.teachers.org.uk/members-reps/6th-form-teachers/pay-and-funding-campaign
Today is a good day not simply because thousands of members of our sister union the National Union of Teachers (NUT) are striking against spending cuts in sixth form col…Read more…