http://unisonactive.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/we-belong-to-glesga-dear-olglesga-toon.html?m=1
Our friends at UNISON Anonymous, the blog which is certainly never written by paid officials of our Union, appear unimpressed with Motion 106, the Lambeth branch…Read more…

As diligent readers of this blog will recollect, UNISON members in Local Government held a Special Service Group Conference in March at which delegates decided that the Union should submit a pay claim for an increase from 1 April 2015.Such a claim was …Read more…

It’s odd to be preparing for the start of a UNISON National Conference at  a Conference Centre which not only does not recognise trade unions for collective bargaining, but has just dismissed a UNISON activist. I have just signed a petition in protest at the treatment of Robert O’Donnell by…Read more…

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‎Tomorrow I shall travel to my twenty fourth consecutive Annual Conference of my trade union.
This century UNISON Conference has become less unruly, less unpredictable, less vibrant – and therefore less worthwhile, less interesting and less effective in holding to account our leaders.
In this blog…Read more…

http://www.unison.org.uk/news/probation-strike-action-suspendedI was going to blog a message of solidarity to our members of UNISON in the probation service who were to have been taking strike action as part of their pay dispute on Thursday.
Instead I’…Read more…

What do the results of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) election tell us?
First, that we had 1.24 million full members at the point that the extract for the ballot was taken from the membership system. This corresponds pretty closely to the 1.25 million members in our last submission to…Read more…

‎I’ve been narrowly re-elected to UNISON’s National Executive Council, with 51.8% of the vote (but on a turnout of just 6.2%).
I’ll comment further on the election results later. For now I offer my congratulations to all other successful candidates.
The derisory turnout in a ballot which the law…Read more…

‎Jeremy Corbyn has been as consistent as he has been persistent in thirty two years in Parliament as a socialist advocate for working people.
There are a thousand positive things I want to say about his decision to seek nominations in the election for Labour Leader, but for now I shall say just…Read more…

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/trade-union-statistics-2014
The neither-good-nor-bad news is that UK trade union membership has been broadly static in the last year, according to the official data issued today.
Most of the movements, in absolu…Read more…

‎I was pleased to be able to join a determined march through Barnet’s unseasonable weather in support of today’s strike against privatisation.
Local disputes of strategic significance to wider groups within the union movement are taking place not only in by UNISON members at Barnet Council (and…Read more…

http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/1579
Hundreds of UNISON members in the North London borough of Barnet are striking today and tomorrow in a dispute sparked by the Tory Council’s plans for the wholesale privatisation of Council services.
Barnet’s d…Read more…

I’ve just been invited to a meeting I may not be eligible to attend.

My current term of office on the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) expires at the close of our National Delegate Conference on Friday 19 June.

A new NEC (of which I may or may…Read more…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/employers-end-union-dues-collection-deal-1456076.html
The link above is to a twenty two year old story about how (then) public sector employers, British Coal and British Rail, used the withdrawal of what was then ca…Read more…

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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/4/part/3/enacted
Trade unionists are often complaining about the number of jobs which have been eliminated as a result of the savage spending cuts of the previous Government, now set to be accelerated.‎So we should probably celebrate the creation of some…Read more…

UNISON members employed in the Probation Service will be taking strike action on Thursday 11 June in a dispute over pay following  near-unanimous rejection of a “zero per cent” pay offer and a decisive “yes” vote in a national strike ballot. This will be the first national UNISON strike action…Read more…

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‎An interested reader has asked that I elaborate upon an aside in a blog post earlier today.
Our sisters and brothers in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are meeting in Brighton for their Annual Delegate Conference.Their National Executive has put a motion ‎(A98) before their…Read more…