On a wonderful day, we need to recognise that the work to build on Corbyn’s election victory has to start immediately. As a UNISON Branch Secretary, I have just sent the following message to members of my trade union branch, encouraging members to join…Read more…

‎All we can do now that the ballot for the Labour leadership has closed is cross our fingers until Saturday and hope that Jeremy Corbyn can trump an amazing summer by taking the movement to transform Labour forward into a challenging autumn as our Leader.
UNISON members now find ourselves, however,…Read more…

http://labourlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/dave-prentis-smash.jpg
Those who support incumbent candidate (Dave Prentis) for a fourth term as UNISON General Secretary because he is a “safe pair of hands” can reflect on the “safe” way in which Dave …Read more…

http://johnburgess4gensec.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/my-pledge-strong-branches-need_4.html?m=1
Leading challenger in the contest for UNISON General Secretary, Barnet activist John Burgess, has today launched a detailed and practical pledge to increase fund…Read more…

The meeting commenced with most members in the ninth floor Conference Centre and thirteen NEC members in the first floor audio/video link room.The NEC sent best wishes to two members who were unwell (Linda Sweet and Max Watson) and remembered deceased …Read more…

‎The UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) has voted to nominate Dave Prentis in the election for UNISON General Secretary.
Dave got 32 votes to 16 for leading left challenger John Burgess, 4 for Roger Bannister, 1 for Hayley Garner and 1 abstention. The NEC has 65 members in total.
Whilst the…Read more…

‎I’m not sure that any of what follows is true and urge caution to all readers.
Sources close to right-wing Blairite group “Progress” have allegedly revealed that their funder, Lord Sainsbury, will be funding a new organisation (“Egress”) intended to capture and develop their brilliance.
The…Read more…

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/labour-purging-supporters-jeremy-corbyn
I’m inclined to accept the analysis in the New Statesman above, and to accept that the so-called “#LabourPurge” is neither intended nor likely to alter the outcome of …Read more…

http://www.leftfutures.org/2015/08/what-will-bring-unity-to-labour-is-not-the-right-leader-but-the-strength-of-its-democracy/#more-44114
I’ve voted for Corbyn (and I hope you have too). 
The online fuss about a “purge” may indicate that over zealo…Read more…

‎I’ve not blogged much in the last few days because I don’t know where the combination of optimism and anger will take me – and in recent years I’ve been taken to task for calling strike breakers by their given name and for being honest in public about how I felt about the death of a former Prime…Read more…

Tony Blair has had the unique privilege of writing his own political obituary.
Such is his desperation to prevent the inexorable progress of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign that he seeks to deploy the authority he believes he still has (even if, as he puts it, “we hate him”).
Tony!We no longer…Read more…

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/general-secretary-blog/2015/08/docas-attack/
At the first meeting of the Development and Organisation (D&O) Committee of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) after the General Election the Committee considered …Read more…

http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2015/08/10/nice-guy-good-mp-making-the-weather-but-it-has-to-be-abc-anyone-but-corbyn-labour-is-finished-if-he-wins/
I’m a little surprised that Alastair Campbell (best known as the inspiration for the funniest poli…Read more…

Yesterday, I congratulateda colleaguefor highlighting the Government’s consultationon the “exit payment cap”. This has been presented as being about limiting excessive severance payments to public sector “fat cats” – with a ceiling on payments of £95,000.
However, because the “cap” will include the…Read more…

http://www.unisonmanchester.org/national-news/unison-general-secretary-election-tuc-demonstration-in-manchester
I am pleased once more to find myself in agreement with the officers of UNISON’s Manchester Branch – this time about who to recommend to mem…Read more…

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The Guardian is reporting the Government’s announcement that public sector workers are to lose our right to have union fees deducted from our wages‎ (a change to be made, it would appear, by way of an amendment to the already published Trade Union Bill);

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I truly wish I…Read more…

Socialist comrades have expressed as much shock as pleasure at the news that UNISON gave our supporting nomination in the Labour leadership contest to Jeremy Corbyn. (Even though some reported this without comment…)
I really should have believed the …Read more…

http://www.unison.org.uk/media-centre/unison-supports-jeremy-corbyn-in-the-labour-leadership
I should leave the country more often!
For the first time in 12 years I miss a meeting of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) and what happens?
Our Gen…Read more…

http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2015/07/solidarity-24-07/‎UNISON members at London Metropolitan University are striking this Friday in opposition to three threatened compulsory redundancies (including that of UNISON Branch Secretary, my comrade Max Watson).
The deliberate making of compulsory…Read more…