Speaking in support of composite 11 on mental health funding, Unite delegate and mental health nurse Ann Crozier today (September 11) highlighted how mental health services are needed now more than…Read more…
#TUC17 Motion 3 – Building a new housing consensus
(Speech on Motion 3 Building a new housing consensus)
Congress. President.
Conroy Lawrence, UNISON, moving motion 3.
Congress. I work at Lewisham Hospital in London.
Like all of you, I see members struggling with impossible choices at the end of the…Read more…
The Legacy of Paul Hockaday
Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to say that, as recognition of Paul’s significant community development work in Bangor since 2002, his sad death, and continuing legacy, have been acknowledged in both the Daily Post, a national Welsh paper, and the …Read more…
Time for action
Tackling the housing crisis that continues to envelope our communities has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. For ‘generation rent’ who face living in insecure homes and…Read more…
‘Until the deal’s done’
We must fight for a Brexit that puts jobs and workers first, argued Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner on the first day of the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday (September 10). …Read more…
UNISON’s joint branch and regional assessments enter the digital age
A key organising tool is updated to help the union ‘better face the challenges of the future’
The article UNISON’s joint branch and regional assessments enter the digital age first appeared on the…Read more…
Blacklist Support Group: Construction giant Sir Robert McAlpine faces Big Ben backlash
The Speaker of the House of Commons and the Sir Robert McAlpine chief executive both joined the war of words about the £29m contract to refurbish Big Ben being awarded to the blacklist company. On…Read more…
Trade Union Congress 2017 #TUC17
Now in Brighton for TUC annual conference. I will be trying as usual to post on speeches and fringes.
Congress started for UNISON with a delegation meeting at 3pm where we decided our policy on motions, agreed speakers and support for the General Coun…Read more…
The government should show it values its public service workers by lifting the pay cap now, says UNISON
The government must bring to an end the damaging era of public sector job losses and squeezed services – and scrap the punishing pay cap for everyone once and for all, says UNISON today (Sunday). At…Read more…
The government must scrap the pay cap now says UNISON, as research shows public service staff forced into debt and going without meals and heating
Staff providing vital public services are being forced into debt, into cutting back on groceries, having to go without heating and even a daily meal, because of the government’s pay cap, according to…Read more…
Adolf Berle on Sports Direct
Adolf Berle, of Berle and Means fame, continued to write interesting things about corporate power and control long after The Modern Corporation and Private Property. The excerpt below is from Power Without Property: A New Development in American Politi…Read more…
Welcoming TUC delegates to Brighton – what about the workers?
Brighton is welcoming delegates to the annual Trades Union Congress, which convenes here this afternoon (read more here).
I hope that friends and comrades in the UNISON delegation (and other delegations) will take the opportunity to network between activists in different trade unions – because…Read more…
UNISON Motion on low pay for Labour Conference
I have submitted this motion from my UNISON branch to West Ham Labour Party GC for this years conference.
“Conference notes that CPIH inflation stands at 2.6%, according to ONS data released on August 15th.
Conference notes that this means publi…Read more…
Mentioned in Parliament – Cllr Seyi Akiwowo …fighting back against online abuse
A lovely tribute in a maiden speech to Parliament by new Labour MP, Rosie Duffield, to Newham’s youngest Councillor, Seyi Akiwowo, “who has endured, fought back against and now campaigns against the lowest form of racial abuse…”
UNISON welcomes government U-turn on selling NHS staffing agency
Selling off NHS Professionals would have been ‘completely counterproductive and bad for patients and staff,’ union says
The article UNISON welcomes government U-turn on selling NHS staffing agency…Read more…
Retirement uncertainty
Unite has demanded urgent talks after it was revealed yesterday (September 7) that British Airways intends to close its main pension scheme. Blaming low interest rates and rising life…Read more…
‘Fight together, rise together’
For the first time ever, UK workers at the global fast food chain restaurant McDonald’s went on strike this week (September 4) in their fight against low pay and zero hours contracts. Taking a…Read more…
Canteen staff strike
One of the biggest training days for employees at the Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire on Monday, September 25, is set to be disrupted by a strike of ‘pitifully’ low paid canteen staff. Staff…Read more…
Labour’s clear strategy
When I worked for ITN during the eighties I would find myself throwing questions at Premier Thatcher and various cabinet members usually outside in Downing Street – decamping to the seaside…Read more…
Worker directors via the UK Corporate Governance Code
As anyone who reads this blog will probably be aware, the Conservative government bottled its commitment to put workers on boards. Instead it has asked the FRC to amend the UK Corporate Governance Code to give companies three options, one of which is a…Read more…