https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2016/01/fe-members-vote-for-action-in-pay/
UNISON members working in further education (FE) colleges have voted decisively in favour of both strike action and action short of strike action in opposition to the emp…Read more…

‎As your blogger was dragging myself back to work following a particularly nasty chest infection I received word as follows from an informed source (as they say);
There is a hearing before the Certification Officer on Tuesday 1st March to consider a complaint made by Keith Henderson alleging that…Read more…

https://www.fbu.org.uk/don’t-let-them-silence-you-–-switch-direct-debit-today
This is a link to the organising response of our sister union, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to the proposals in the Trade Union Bill to prevent public sector employers from operating deduction of union contributions at…Read more…

http://lambeth-unison.org/2016/01/12/lambeth-library-staff-to-strike-over-library-cuts/
I’m pleased to be able to link to the new Lambeth UNISON website which carries the positive news of overwhelming support from UNISON members in Lambeth libraries fo…Read more…

Apology from Jon Rogers to Dave Prentis
In December of last year, prior to the conclusion of the election for the post of General Secretary of Unison, I made various comments about Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison, who has now been re-elected …Read more…

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=ztyN7Nay5GVE.k23VwWSwZSqAAny UNISON member who can should show solidarity tomorrow with the junior doctors’ strike action. (The link above gives details of all the picket lines which will be mounted tomorrow).
N…Read more…

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2016/01/2016-service-group-executive-elections/
Next Tuesday nominations open in the biennial elections for the directly elected seats on UNISON’s Service Group Executives (SGEs), the bodies which direct our Union…Read more…

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2016/01/fe-members-urged-to-vote-yes-in-industrial-action-ballot/UNISON members in Further Education (FE) colleges have the distinction of kicking off the fight for fair pay for public servants in 2016.
Members wi…Read more…

https://www.marxists.org/archive/gallacher/1915/clyde-committee.htm
This link is to a leaflet issued one hundred years ago when workers on the Clyde were trying to organise in the absence of any legal right not to be unfairly dismissed (which right was…Read more…

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I’m pleased to read Aditya Chakrabortty in today’s Guardian (p36 of the print edition) writing in praise of my friend and comrade John Burgess.
http://gu.com/p/4faxh
Following the disappointing outcome of the election for UNISON General Secretary (and …Read more…

Whilst UNISON has not received the report of the Returning Officer in the General Secretary election, as investigations are still underway (and being assisted with unanticipated interventions from unexpected quarters), the Scrutineer has been able…Read more…

I have this evening sent the following message to those UNISON branches in Greater London for whom I have email addresses, as well as my fellow Regional members of the National Executive Council (NEC) and the Regional Convenor;
Further to our recent co…Read more…

The Guardian is now reporting about the issues which have been concerning readers of this blog for the past couple of weeks, in relation to the UNISON General Secretary election.

More UNISON members will now be able to listen for themselves …Read more…

‎More than a third of the elected members of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC), myself included, have come together to support the demand for an independent investigation into allegations of malpractice in the election for UNISON General Secretary.
UNISON members can add their names to this…Read more…

I have blogged before about the alarming evidence of electoral malpractice in UNISON’s Greater London Regional Office. 
I am not commenting about an internal investigation established by UNISON, which I trust shall investigate as far as its terms …Read more…

http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/statement-from-kevin-curran-gmb-general-secretary-elect/The above link notes the victory, in the 2003 election for General Secretary of our sister union, GMB, ‎of Kevin Curran. He had scored a decisive victory over his opponent, Paul Kenny.
The following year…Read more…

‎Word reaches your blogger of a staff meeting at UNISON’s Greater London Regional office at which staff were assured of the imminent return of a colleague not currently amongst them.
Rest assured dear reader that I believe not one word of this. 
I simply do not believe that any senior UNISON…Read more…

Some people make great play of their pride in their membership of a trade union. Sometimes those are people whose only association with a trade union has been their employment by one.
Dave.
I am proud of being a trade unionist – but that has little to …Read more…

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/12/unison-chief-dave-prentis-attacks-labour-infighting
Here is an example of how the infantile advisers to UNISON’s General Secretary failed to consider the political impact of their own actions during the ca…Read more…