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Build real lay control and local organisation, not power-play at the top

Feb 3, 2022By UNISON Active

With the division, and what looks like organising stagnation, in UNISON’s lay national executive (NEC) following the election of a majority running under the Time for Real Change (TFRC) ticket, it is…Read more…

Feb 3, 2022UNISON Active

Damaging action behind TFRC rhetoric

Jan 31, 2022By UNISON Active

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Jan 31, 2022UNISON Active

Local Government Pay Campaign – What a Shambles

Jan 29, 2022By UNISON Active

 ‘Gizza Job’ – the famous words of Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff rang true for so many in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Joblessness and unemployment rife and job insecurity endemic as…Read more…

Jan 29, 2022UNISON Active

UNISON GS nails Radio 4’s Any Questions

Oct 26, 2021By UNISON Active

 

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Oct 26, 2021UNISON Active

Turning our back on the world – UNISON NEC disaffiliates from ICTUR

Oct 20, 2021By UNISON Active

On 23 September 2021 the NEC’s international committee declined to reaffiliate to the International Centre for Trade Union rights (ICTUR), on cost grounds. 

This appalling decision ends over…Read more…

Oct 20, 2021UNISON Active

‘Not in our name’ – Police & Justice Conference condemns NEC rule breaking

Oct 15, 2021By UNISON Active

UNISON’s first in person conference for almost 20 months was held in Brighton over the past two days….Read more…

Oct 15, 2021UNISON Active

Perceived wrongs don’t justify undermining UNISON democracy

Oct 14, 2021By UNISON Active

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Why UNISON needs to campaign on Integrated Care Proposals

Oct 14, 2021By UNISON Active

On the face of it ICPs or Integrated Care Partnerships (or Services) proposed for England make a lot of sense. Anyone who has looked after an elderly relative or been in a carer role will know the…Read more…

Oct 14, 2021UNISON Active

Black History Month – Mandela’s visit to Glasgow October 1993 video

Oct 8, 2021By UNISON Active

To celebrate October’s Black History Month, the Nelson Mandela
Scottish Memorial Foundation is launching a short video to mark the
anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s historic visit to Glasgow on 9…Read more…

Oct 8, 2021UNISON Active

Black History Month – Mandela’s visit to Glasgow October 1993 video

Oct 8, 2021By UNISON Active

To celebrate October’s Black History Month, the Nelson Mandela
Scottish Memorial Foundation is launching a short video to mark the
anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s historic visit to Glasgow on 9…Read more…

Oct 8, 2021UNISON Active

A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations

Jun 1, 2020By UNISON Active

First published (edited) in the Morning Star April 2020: Legendary Scottish miner’s leader Michael McGahey famously and often reminded us that, “We are a movement not a monument”.

It was a quote…Read more…

Jun 1, 2020UNISON Active

A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations

Jun 1, 2020By UNISON Active

First published (edited) in the Morning Star April 2020: Legendary Scottish miner’s leader Michael McGahey famously and often reminded us that, “We are a movement not a monument”.

It was a quote…Read more…

Jun 1, 2020UNISON Active

Denis Goldberg: Making life better for people. Is that not what the revolution was about?

May 31, 2020By UNISON Active

Tributes poured in across the world last month on the news of the death
of veteran anti-apartheid campaigner and honorary UNISON member Denis
Goldberg.

UNISON Scotland had a long friendship with…Read more…

May 31, 2020UNISON Active

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
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