http://www.unison.org.uk/about/events-and-conferences/national-conferences/special-local-government-conference-2015/
‎The challenge now is how to use the Special Conference on Tuesday 24 March. We need not only to consider the agenda for the Conference itself but also how we use this occasion to…Read more…

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http://www.transform-network.net/publications/publications-2014/news/detail/Publications/can-europe-still-be-saved.html
We’re moving from a horrendous year into what might be a horrifying year.
Workers need a Labour Government, but Scottish Labour’s de…Read more…

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2014/4198.html
UNISON’s application for judicial review of the regulations imposing extortionate fees upon claimants in employment tribunals has been defeated for a second time.
The fee regime imposed by the To…Read more…

The advent of, well, advent doesn’t spell a reduced workload in local government – on the contrary, next year’s budget proposals are emerging in local authorities up and down the country and – particularly in the deprived areas which this Government targets for the greatest reductions – things look…Read more…

http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/a-left-platform-for-the-election/
John McDonnell is right, in the link above, that there is a sizeable constituency with an appetite for the policies to the left of the main parties.
As a local government trade unionist i…Read more…

‎This morning I supported a picket line of striking UCU members at Lambeth College and was, this lunchtime, one of the speakers at their strike rally. 
Today is the first of a series of planned strikes by UCU members at the College, continuing an earlier series of strikes in opposition to the…Read more…

http://www.unisonmanchester.org/national-news/special-local-government-conference-update
In the first of a few brief blog posts extracted from the report which I am preparing of yesterday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) I am very…Read more…

‎I have today been assured that budget provision is available to resource an election in 2015 for the election of a General Secretary for UNISON, should such an election be necessary.It will be.
I don’t intend, in this post, to comment on the lamentable succession planning of the full-time…Read more…

‎After a long day at work, and ahead of a lengthy, (if less long) meeting of the Left Caucus of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) I had the opportunity today to pop by the annual seasonal social event for UNISON staff and NEC members.
Whilst I missed the opportunity to purchase raffle…Read more…

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/nov/30/letters-council-leaders-across-spectrum-plead-no-more-cuts
‎After a very relaxing week away I return to prophecies of doom from the political leaders of English local government.
Having made savings of 40% in this Parliament, our leaders say that…Read more…

‎I have a very long period of continuous local government service (I am not young).
As I have more than ten years such service, with my employer, according to the conditions of service negotiated with the local trade unions, I have 34 days paid leave each year in addition to public holidays.
It was…Read more…

As I observed yesterday, the Special Conference (which informed sources in the Euston Road now confidently predict) will consider how we should go about getting a decent pay increase for local government workers.
Some will understandably question the v…Read more…

‎The fourth and final topic which UNISON branches seeking to requisition a Special Local Government Conference is probably the most important – and it is as relevant to our members in Scotland as it is to those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (who have been the victims of the catastrophic…Read more…

‎To give readers a rest from my incessant blog posts about local government pay (each and every one of which, I should point out to readers in the Euston area, alleges a breach of Rule B.1.4) I shall share a strange happening from this morning’s meeting of the Development and Organisation (D&O)…Read more…