http://jonrogers1963.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/twittering-about-unison-general.html?m=1
I’ve been blogging awhile and have been struck that the post above attracted the most comments I think any of my posts ever have.
‎In that post I alleged that the campaign to elect Dave Prentis to carry on as…Read more…

https://mobile.twitter.com/electprentis/status/640800735119208449Dave Prentis, whose scandal hit campaign for re-election as UNISON General Secretary is covered in the latest edition of Private Eye (shome mistake surely?) claimed on his election campai…Read more…

‎There are two dimensions of power in a trade union.
There is the collective power of organised workers, of which our trade unions are simply an institutional expression and a tool. ‎This is our positive power.
We express this power when we stand together and take industrial action, but it is also…Read more…

‎Here is a brief note of what transpired at the start of yesterday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) based in part on an update which I have already sent by email to UNISON Branches in the Greater London Region (following a request from a fellow Branch Secretary).
I will…Read more…

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/breach-of-statutory-balloting-procedures-decision-bakhsh-v-unison-the-public-service-union
Trade unions are required by one of the many laws which regulate our movement to appoint an independent returning offi…Read more…

‎ Loyalty is central to effective trade unionism – but different people have different understandings of loyalty.
A couple of weeks ago UNISON members in my own branch, working in libraries, gave a lesson in loyalty when they spontaneously took unofficial strike action in defence of their jobs and…Read more…

The ballot has closed in the election for General Secretary in which I have been proud to have supported John Burgess. John proposed a radical and credible platform based upon a creditable record of effective leadership.
I didn’t back Roger Bannister (an old friend whom I have backed in the past),…Read more…

https://www.unison.org.uk/about/jobs/2015/11/greater-london-region-regional-organisers-x-3/
Three vacancies for positions as UNISON Regional Organisers in the Greater London Region may seem increasingly attractive this week to committed and experienced…Read more…

‎I hesitate to say that the suggestion that pro-bombing Labour Parliamentarians have been “bullied” by those lobbying them against Cameron’s War is the most laughable thing that I have heard in the recent past.
But that’s only because I am subject to so much “management speak” in my day job.
It is…Read more…

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/len-mccluskey-warns-entire-union-movement-would-defend-jeremy-corbyn-from-labour-coup-attempt-a6753846.html
Len McCluskey is right to emphasise the breadth and depth of support for Jeremy Corbyn across our …Read more…

I realise that I am in a tiny minority in UNISON, on the left on UNISON and generally in believing that we should use the Single Transferable Vote (STV) to elect our General Secretary.Happily I don’t mind being the one person who is right when all the rest of you are wrong. (I can even be generous…Read more…

This blog always give credit where it’s due.It’s a good thing that UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, has today spoken out against a “snap decision” to bomb Syria. That is right of course.If the answer is ever a UK military intervention you must know that you have asked the wrong question.UK…Read more…

‎Your humble blogger, together with a candidate in the election for UNISON General Secretary, were honoured this afternoon with the following message from a senior UNISON official;‎”It may have escaped your notice that the comments made by bob oram et al have been removed.they are now subject to…Read more…

‎Those who think that the campaign for the re-election of UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis is being organised solely with a view to an eventual (slapstick) film version today received evidence to support their view.
The Prentis campaign today used a database of Branch Secretary email addresses…Read more…

Much is made, by supporters of incumbent UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, of his experience and track record as reasons he should be supported. Their arguments are generally fairly light on evidence however.How should we judge the effectiveness …Read more…

Whilst this blog has often been critical of the leadership of UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis in recent years, he has not here been accused of running a ruthless meritocracy.Because that would have been unfair.The fact that the shower of overly …Read more…

http://unisonactive.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
When the world was young, in early 2010, the (then fairly new) UNISON Active blog (written by and for UNISON activists)(though mostly ano‎nymously) was full of posts promoting the candidacy of incumbent General Secretary, Dave Prentis (then seeking his third…Read more…

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/enterprise.html
Clause 26 of the Enterprise Bill, which imposes the “public sector exit payment cap” has emerged largely unscathed from the Bill’s Committee stage in the House of Lords.
Government Ministers b…Read more…