The council is backing UNISON’s campaigns on ending the public sector pay cap and promoting dignity in social care
The article UNISON welcomes Liverpool City Council commitments to fair pay first…Read more…
Ireland: ‘Deal only possible if DUP and British Government uphold equality’
– O’Neill Sinn Fein Newsroom 12 November, 2017 There can only be an agreement to restore the Stormont institutions if the DUP and British Government are prepared to uphold rights and…Read more…
What is the EU defence union PESCO?
Sertan Sanderson With 23 of the EU’s current 28 member states joining the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), there seems to be a great deal of consensus among member states but a few…Read more…
A different society
Unite shop floor leaders gathered in Brighton this week to consider the remarkable democratic working-class organisation we have built together. These conferences are a cornerstone of our…Read more…
Bad for both EU and UK workers
Brexit loomed large at this year’s industrial sector conferences, with delegates expressing concerns at the Tories’ lack of a negotiating position and the risk of damage to jobs and the economy if no…Read more…
Poverty Pay and Rotten Housing for Housing Association & Voluntary Sector workers
I hope this motion will go to the UNISON Community conference next year.
“This conference notes
1. A Chief Executive of a Large Housing Association recently remarked at a meeting that many of the workers and their f…Read more…
Blog: The Chancellor’s budget choice is between decent services and lost services
The government must make the right choice, after so many years of making the wrong choices.
The article Blog: The Chancellor’s budget choice is between decent services and lost services first…Read more…
The automation challenge
See and hear Unite executive officer Sharon Graham’s presentation on automation to sector conference 2017 delegates
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Unison Branch AGMS February 2018
Two advance diary dates: The City of Stoke-On-Trent Local Government Branch AGMS will take place on: Monday 12 February 2018 at 1pm, Tolkien Room, City Central Library. Buffet at 12.30 pm – must be pre-ordered by Friday 2 February 2018. Monday … Continue reading →Read more…
Higher wages for council employees would save the Treasury money, says UNISON
Local government workers are the lowest paid in the public sector. This pay rise is affordable and long overdue.
The article Higher wages for council employees would save the Treasury money, says…Read more…
Britain needs a pay rise
Today is the seventh month in a row that prices have gone up faster than wages. The Chancellor needs to wake up next week – Britain needs a pay rise.
As this chart from the Resolution Foundation…Read more…
‘Cornerstone conferences’
See and hear Unite general secretary Len McCluskey’s address to this year’s sector conferences in Brighton.
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‘On the side of justice’
Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey described this week’s industrial sector conferences (November 13) as “a cornerstone of our union and our democracy” in his speech welcoming delegates to the…Read more…
‘The internet of things’
The fourth industrial revolution may be not televised but it will be digitalised. If changes to work caused by automation are not dealt with properly, more than 230,000 Unite members could…Read more…
UNISON comments on RCN story on NHS pay
NHS employees as a whole are struggling to survive on just their basic pay.
The article UNISON comments on RCN story on NHS pay first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Menshevik Georgia: Online debate with Workers Liberty
Last week, the British left newspaper Solidarity published this review of my book. Today, they published my rebuttal: Paul Vernadsky in his review of my book, The Experiment: Georgia’s…Read more…
Review: The Beria Papers, by Alan Williams
To anyone who has seen the recent film on the death of Stalin, the character of Lavrenty Beria, played by Simon Russell Beale, may now be familiar. Though the film was a comedy (of sorts),…Read more…
Revealed: the true cost of the House of Lords
The Electoral Reform Society have released a devastating analysis of the state of the House of Lords in 2017 – revealing the ‘democratic crisis’ at the heart of the Lords.
The Audit coincides with a key Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday calling for reform of the upper house [1] –
Have We Won?
Qatar agrees to key campaign demands After years of campaigning, in which Playfair Qatar and its supporters played their part, Qatar appears to have done the right thing. In a potentially…Read more…
BiFab ‘work-in’
Workers at BiFab are to stage a ‘work-in’ to save 1400 jobs, as unions say the main Dutch contractor, Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), is guilty of holding the Scottish yards to ransom in a…Read more…