Unite is demanding that employers take action to ensure that workers are granted toilet dignity in the workplace. Unite believes that tens of thousands of workers in the UK either are not…Read more…
Why you could be waiting till your 70s for a state pension
The UK state pension age is already on the rise – now the IMF thinks people might have to work into their 70s before retiringRead more…
Time off for union training – what's the secret?
The TUC has published new guidance on how to get an employer to agree to give union reps paid time off work to trainRead more…
Kyffin Williams: The way to the cottages
Love this. Calendar present 2018 (March) from my Mum. Painting by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams sometime 1990 – 2006. Read more…
Review: The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, The Russians and the Jazz Age, by Timothy Phillips
Timothy Phillips has written a gripping account of the secret war between the British intelligence services and the Bolsheviks during the 1920s. Based largely on documents he unearthed in the…Read more…
Cardiff City wins LGBT branch organising award
Scotland and the North West also pick up trophies as the annual LGBT recruitment awards are announced in Harrogate
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Giving LGBT the plus factor
Delegates at UNISON’s LGBT conference unanimously backed changing the group’s name to LGBT+ to boost inclusivity
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‘Thank you for making people’s lives better’
UNISON president Gordon McKay praises delegates for all the work they do
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Newham Labour Family at Unity Anti-Racist & Anti-Fascist March
This picture collage is from today’s March and Rally in Central London. Newham Labour Councillors, Party members & supporters met in the morning outside Stratford Station in order to travel down together to the march.
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LGBT delegates hear of the need for more safe spaces
CEO of Touchstone charity addresses conference about the work the organisation does
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Cross-branch working and pensions concern conference
Delegates also hear emotional debates on ‘conversion therapy’ and the lack of marriage equality in Northern Ireland
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Delegates discuss international concerns
Conference hears of treatment of the Palestinian people, plus the plight of LGBT workers in Colombia, Turkey and Jamaica
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Fighting against low pay ‘at the heart of UNISON’s agenda’
Assistant general secretary tells LGBT delegates of the challenges facing the union in the ‘fourth industrial revolution’
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LGBT conference backs message on transphobia
Delegates speak of the rise in bigoted language and praise UNISON for leading the fightback among trade unions
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Why socialists should oppose All Member Meeting structures for local Labour Parties
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‘Hope over hate’
Today, Unite members will be coming together in central London from across the country to join thousands of trade unionists and anti-racist campaigners to stand up to the rise of the far right and…Read more…
Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 – All Saints Festival Chorus & Orchestra Sat 24th Nov 2018
Some culture for a change on my blog even though I have a clash next weekend and cannot make it!
“Symphony No. 9 in D minor op 125 (Choral Symphony) by Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. Instantly recognizable…Read more…
BREAKING: Unite Reps Briefing: Opposing Blindfold Brexit
Issued to Unite the Union workplace reps November 16th Unite Reps Briefing: Opposing Blindfold Brexit Unite the Union is calling on MPs to reject the Government’s Withdrawal Deal if it is put before…Read more…
‘Great misery’
The British government’s austerity campaign is “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” and has caused “great misery” not for any economic requirement but to satisfy a political aim of social…Read more…
‘Growing anger’
Unite is currently balloting its members for industrial action at Johnson Matthey in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in a long-running dispute over a ‘completely unacceptable’ pay offer. The ballot at the…Read more…