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Contrived. Corrupt. Corrosive

May 1, 2016By UNISON Active

Ken Livingstone’s ego was always going to be his (and arguably Corbyn’s) undoing. But the contrived charges of anti-Semitism would have been landed on the Corbynistas regardless of whoever it was…Read more…

May 1, 2016UNISON Active

STUC opposes Trident as ‘an extravagance and an irrelevance’

Apr 20, 2016By UNISON Active

The STUC has renewed its call for Trident replacement to be abandoned and will revisit setting up Trade Union CND, focussing on job diversification for workers employed on Trident.

In a debate…Read more…

Apr 20, 2016UNISON Active

Brian Bilston’s ‘Refugee’ Poem

Mar 25, 2016By UNISON Active

They have no need of our help

So do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or I

Should life have dealt a different hand

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and…Read more…

Mar 25, 2016UNISON Active

Cameron’s EU Deal… What’s So Special?

Feb 20, 2016By UNISON Active

Well, BBC Breakfast this morning has wall to wall coverage of the UK’s Special Status in the EU. Cameron has triumphantly marched back from Brussels telling us he has secured a deal that lets us stay…Read more…

Feb 20, 2016UNISON Active

Tories to block Public Sector boycotts of Israel

Feb 19, 2016By UNISON Active

The Tory government announced on Monday (15/2/16) that from now on only government approved boycotts will be tolerated. So much for local democracy.

Through a guidance note published by the…Read more…

Feb 19, 2016UNISON Active

TU Bill attacks human rights. Manchester Rally.

Feb 11, 2016By UNISON Active

UNISON’s North West Region hosted an anti trade union bill rally at the Mechanics Institute Manchester tonight with Angela Raynor MP, Paula Barket, NW Convener, Kevan Nelson, UNISON North West…Read more…

Feb 11, 2016UNISON Active

UNISON must get anti-austerity, workers’ rights and anti-TTIP message into EU vote debate

Feb 9, 2016By UNISON Active

UNISON’s Jane Carolan, speaking at today’s Institute of Employment Rights Conference outlined the history of the union’s position on the EU and the referendum debate ahead. This is the full text…Read more…

Feb 9, 2016UNISON Active

Humanity – a poem for refugees by Joy Johnson

Dec 6, 2015By UNISON Active

Packing up her school books
Laughing with her friend
It only took a moment
For her school days to come to an end

“We’re only kids in school”
Her voice was pained but clear
Bodies charred…Read more…

Dec 6, 2015UNISON Active

UK unions must stand with their Turkish and Kurdish brothers and sisters at this time

Oct 14, 2015By UNISON Active

The trade union confederations in Turkey, KESK and DISK, along with the Engineers and Architects Association and the Medical Association organised the demonstration and rally in Ankara on Saturday…Read more…

Oct 14, 2015UNISON Active

Women in UNISON

Sep 18, 2015By UNISON Active

When national newspapers (Gender And Unity In The Labour Movement – Guardian 17 Sept) are used to urge that its time for ‘a woman’ to lead UNISON perhaps its time to look at where women are in the…Read more…

Sep 18, 2015UNISON Active

We have a moral and legal obligation to help refugees: Jane Carolan full #TUC15 speech

Sep 16, 2015By UNISON Active

“We have a moral and legal obligation to help refugees”, UNISON NEC member Jane Carolan told delegates today in a moving speech backing a statement committing the General Council to campaign for…Read more…

Sep 16, 2015UNISON Active

Pay – doing nothing is not an option

Sep 5, 2015By UNISON Active

On Thursday a national pay summit was held at UNISON head office with representatives in attendance from all regions and service groups. Co-chaired by President Wendy Nichols and NEC Policy Chair…Read more…

Sep 5, 2015UNISON Active

Can the leadership debate re-engage Labour supporters?

Aug 24, 2015By UNISON Active

It is sad to see process overtaking politics in the Labour leadership debate, especially because the campaign had at least contained something about visions and policies and how best to deliver on…Read more…

Aug 24, 2015UNISON Active

Labour ballot: The curious case of the Tory and the vote

Aug 23, 2015By UNISON Active

Andy Burnham has expressed concerns that Tories may have been given votes in the Labour leadership election and many in Corbyn’s camp have been quick to dismiss this as scaremongering, or as means to…Read more…

Aug 23, 2015UNISON Active

Kenny Bell remembered

Aug 15, 2015By UNISON Active

On the 4th anniversary of his death, Colombian human rights organisation Nomadesc has produced a video tribute to the late Kenny Bell, Newcastle UNISON Branch Secretary and deputy Regional Convenor…Read more…

Aug 15, 2015UNISON Active

UNISONActive on facebook

Aug 13, 2015By UNISON Active

See our new facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UNISONActiveblog We’ve had problems with the existing facebook page that we are trying to sort out.Read more…

Aug 13, 2015UNISON Active

4 October National March & Rally – programme confirmed

Aug 8, 2015By UNISON Active

#4Oct British trade unions are facing a full frontal attack. Government spending on public services and the welfare state is being rolled back decades. It has never been more important for trade…Read more…

Aug 8, 2015UNISON Active

A windfall for Fat Cats – Labour must oppose Corporation Tax Cuts in Finance Bill 2015/16

Aug 1, 2015By UNISON Active

In the immediate aftermath of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s failure to oppose the Welfare Bill, its MPs with the sole exception of Dennis Skinner abstained on an amendment to decline a second…Read more…

Aug 1, 2015UNISON Active

What will the Tory Trade Union Bill mean for YOU?

Jul 28, 2015By UNISON Active

Headlines on the new Trade Union Bill and subsequent blog postings have concentrated on the threat to strike action, through the new thresholds on ballots, and on the new laws regarding picketing and…Read more…

Jul 28, 2015UNISON Active

Swimming through vomit

Jul 22, 2015By UNISON Active

The debacle created by interim leader Harriet Harman on welfare has created Tory accusations of a split when we should have been putting clear red water between Labour and the Tories. Their vile…Read more…

Jul 22, 2015UNISON Active
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