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Barnet UNISON Press Release: 23 April 2015
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Vote FOR Resolution 22 at the National Express AGM
In less than two weeks, the day before the election, National Express has its annual meeting. Resolution 22 on the agenda is a shareholder proposal drafted and filed by three local authority pension funds that are members of the Local Authority Pension…Read more…
Irish social workers win demand for proper jobs
In Ireland February 2014, on foot of revelations that a “new graduate scheme” was being planned for newly qualifying social workers through the Child and Family Agency, social work students,…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day
International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April 2015 is our day to remember the dead and fight for the living. Up to 50,000 people die each year in the UK from work-related ill health and…Read more…
Queen’s Brian May backs the NHS Paty’s Louise Irvine in Surrey:
Why Brian May is backing Louise Irvine, and why Hunt could be facing a Portillo moment PRESS RELEASE to local press this week. Why Brian May is backing Louise Irvine – and why Hunt could be facing a…Read more…
£132 a month wage disgrace
“Keir Hardie was my kind of socialist” says Sandra Osborne and not only because of what she describes as the “outward and progressive” views of one of the towering figures in the early history of the…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day: 28th April
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Building a growing economy
At the last election, Labour lost Ipswich to the Tories by 2,079 votes. Then Labour held less than half the borough council seats and only four out of 13 Suffolk county council seats. But…Read more…
Migrant rescue cut ‘indefensible in its inhumanity’
#stuc15 Delegates mourned the terrible tragedy of the 950 migrants drowned as their ship capsized off the coast of Libya just before the start of the Congress and gave overwhelming support to an emergency motion condemning the trade of people trafficking but also the reduction in search and rescue operations which is having a dramatic consequence on loss of life.
The STUC will campaign for anRead more…
On present form, there’s another 7 years of cuts to come (unless sanity prevails)
Public sector net borrowing figures today showed borrowing of £87.3 billion in the financial year 2014-15. Undoubtedly the Treasury will be making hay of it being marginally lower than the OBR Budget 2015 forecast of £90.2 billion. But the big picture remains the scale of the shortfall against the…Read more…
Hounded over the edge
The word is ‘cruelty’. That’s the only way to describe how people on benefits are treated, says Unite Community activist Colin Hampton. The current benefits regime seems to operate like a…Read more…
Foodbanks: Solidarity not charity
#stuc15 The rise of foodbanks in the 6th richest country in the world is a national scandal and the STUC will continue to campaign vigorously against austerity, low pay and benefit sanctions which see so many people reliant on them.
It will also work to support foodbanks with advice on trade union and employment rights until the need for them can be eradicated.
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Poorer students are being failed
#STUC15. Too many students in Scotland drop out of full time education due to inadequate financial support.
Speaking on behalf of a motion from the Annual STUC Youth Conference, UNISON Scotland’s Ryan Boyle said that ‘students from poorer backgrounds are being failed’
Ryan supported the STUC Youth Conference motion calling for significant investment in further education support, increasedRead more…
Change society so women can live free from violence
#stuc15 Gender equality is at the root of violence against women and girls and the STUC will campaign to keep this issue at the heart of the agenda for all public bodies in Scotland. Delegates commended the Scottish Government’s “Equally Safe” strategy and the STUC pledged to lend its full support to groups campaigning to build a Scotland free from violence against women and girls.
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Bin lorry drivers on strike after managers attend ACAS but refuse to talk to union
More than 100 bin lorry drivers take action over £1,000 pay cutRead more…
“Unions protect workers” – veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith on the importance of civil society
The 92-year-old talks to USi about work, unions and the importance of the NHSRead more…
Save migrants’ lives in the Med
The TUC has joined the international chorus calling for the European Union to restore the funding needed for initiatives like ‘Mare Nostrum’ to protect the lives of refugees and migrants attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing. Ahead of the emergency leaders’ summit today,…Read more…
Hey Jude’s! Teachers begin six-day strike
NASUWT members angry at attacks on their working practicesRead more…
Campaigning for West Ham, Stratford & Thurrock
Picture collage of West Ham Labour Party campaigning for Polly Billington in the marginal seat of Thurrock and in Stratford & New Town ward.
In Stratford we managed to get into the new residential blocks either side of the High Street and were abl…Read more…
Unions call on Cameron to take action over Mediterranean deaths
TUC says EU leaders must resume ‘Mare Nostrum’ search and rescue operation.Read more…