http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-bc41-Ward-beats-long-standing-Hayes-in-CWU-gen-sec-poll/#.VTuP1WpMVxs
Between work, life and the General Election I have neglected to comment on the outcome of the General Secretary Election in the Communications Wo…Read more…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32406128I doubt any readers of this blog would be daft enough to believe that Nick Clegg’s promise to end real term pay cuts in the public sector can be relied upon any more than his promise on tuition fees five …Read more…

This morning I had to take some recycling round to the communal recycling bin (which is part of my Green local authority’s utterly inadequate approach to environmental policies) and I found that someone had dropped some recycling straight through the letterbox.These were some leaflets boasting…Read more…

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/breach-of-union-rules-decision-barton-v-unison
‎As we face elections to UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) in which – in the London Region – candidates drawn from lay activism face candidates supported from the Regional Office – it is important to…Read more…

One of UNISON’s central priorities at the moment is to organise the increasingly fragmented public service workforce. This entails seeking to organise the employees of a diverse range of private companies, some contracting directly with public sector bodies, and some receiving public money to…Read more…

http://www.lgcplus.com/news/devolution/comment-and-analysis/how-londons-councils-took-shape/5083883.article?dm_i=192K,3AOQK,HX1I9V,BSRGV,1
It is fifty years since the London Boroughs which we now have were created – they’ve lasted more than twice as long as the Greater London ‎Council which was…Read more…

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/sep/14/tuc.uk3
Sixteen years ago, in anticipation of the introduction of statutory union recognition by the then New Labour Government, then TUC General Secretary, John Monks,‎ set the movement his “millennium challenge” to increase membership by a million…Read more…

http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/Charlotte-Monro-reinstated-/
Delegates who will soon gather in Liverpool for UNISON Health Conference ‎will be able to celebrate an important victory for UNISON in the health service; the reinstatement of victimised whistleblower, Charlotte Monro.
UNISON fully…Read more…

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‎I can authoritatively report that the question of how and when we shall organise an election for UNISON’s General Secretary shall be a matter for the 2015/17 National Executive Council (NEC) of UNISON, having been told as much by the most senior person in our trade union.
This means that it will…Read more…

Having spent my evening at a meeting of fellow members of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) ahead of tomorrow’s NEC meeting, I shall blog little about what transpired in deference to the nerves of some comrades.
It is good blogging etiquette to…Read more…

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/07/brontosaurus-is-back-new-analysis-suggests-genus-might-be-resurrected
‎I think I was first accused of being a political dinosaur in Lewisham Labour Party in the late 1980s, so I’m naturally pleased with the news that the brontosaurus may once more be…Read more…

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‎I’ve had to pop out of the office this morning to attend a meeting of the Development and Organisation (D&O) Committee of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) ahead of tomorrow’s NEC meeting which will agree NEC policy positions on items on the Preliminary Agenda for our National Delegate…Read more…

http://www.socialismtoday.org/91/unison.html
As a UNISON member resident in a marginal constituency I today received a letter from our General Secretary encouraging me to vote in the General Election and warning me of the plans the Tories have for our …Read more…

I’ve received the attached message from a branch I have never encountered before. I’m not sure I am in favour of it but am reproducing it here for any comments which readers have before our branch officers can meet to consider this at noon this Wednesday (1 April).
AN APPEAL TO UNISON BRANCHESDear…Read more…

http://www.unison.org.uk/about/our-organisation/lay-structure-democracy-and-elections/elections/
The ballot for election of members to UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) opens next week and the list of candidates (your blogger included) has now been published.‎23 out of 65 seats on the…Read more…

http://www.jonrogers1963.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/after-today-prioritise-motion-106-to.html?m=1
‎Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris SOC) will realise that I am not above linking back to an earlier post on this blog.
This is particularly the case when – moving on from this week’s Local…Read more…

‎In the third of three posts this evening reflecting upon this week’s UNISON Special Local Government Conference I want to deal with the question of Conference delegates moving ” that the question be now put.” A fair bit of this went on on Tuesday, to the extent that the President (who was chairing…Read more…

Among the questions I’ve been asked since the decision of Tuesday’s Special UNISON Local Government Service Group Conference to submit a pay‎ claim for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for this year, one worthy of particular consideration concerns the propriety of a…Read more…