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…
Damaging action behind TFRC rhetoric
Local Government Pay Campaign – What a Shambles
‘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…
UNISON GS nails Radio 4’s Any Questions
Turning our back on the world – UNISON NEC disaffiliates from ICTUR
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…
‘Not in our name’ – Police & Justice Conference condemns NEC rule breaking
UNISON’s first in person conference for almost 20 months was held in Brighton over the past two days….Read more…
Perceived wrongs don’t justify undermining UNISON democracy
Why UNISON needs to campaign on Integrated Care Proposals
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…
Black History Month – Mandela’s visit to Glasgow October 1993 video
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…
Black History Month – Mandela’s visit to Glasgow October 1993 video
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…
A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations
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…
A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations
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…
Denis Goldberg: Making life better for people. Is that not what the revolution was about?
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…
Contrived. Corrupt. Corrosive
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…
STUC opposes Trident as ‘an extravagance and an irrelevance’
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…
Brian Bilston’s ‘Refugee’ Poem
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…
Cameron’s EU Deal… What’s So Special?
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…
Tories to block Public Sector boycotts of Israel
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…
TU Bill attacks human rights. Manchester Rally.
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…
UNISON must get anti-austerity, workers’ rights and anti-TTIP message into EU vote debate
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…