Last month the Government appointed an employer to represent workers on the HSE board. This totally undermined the principle of an equal voice for employers and workers that is enshrined in the…Read more…
Putting the flesh on the government’s industrial strategy
Last Thursday (20 October) saw a backbench Commons debate on industrial strategy. This debate coincides with, but is distinct from, an inquiry by the BEIS Select Committee into industrial strategy, to which the TUC gave evidence. Jo Johnson, the Univer…Read more…
Health and safety ‘High five’ at Oxford Brookes
Our Oxford Brookes University branch are holding an information stall in Union Square with advice on how to tackle a wide range of health and safety concerns in the workplace such as stress and…Read more…
New NHS plans must not be a smokescreen for further government cuts, says UNISON
The government must do more to reassure staff and the public that new NHS service delivery reforms are not a cover for further cuts, says UNISON. Last Friday was the deadline for the submission of 44…Read more…
BTUC 150th anniversary
21 October 2016 Birmingham Trades Union Council150th Anniversary Event12th November 2016 150 years of serving and fighting for the future of our community On Saturday 12th November 2016 the…Read more…
UNISON Disciplinary Procedures
I have today had cause to reflect upon UNISON’s disciplinary procedures as they apply to lay members.
I have been interviewed, courteously and appropriately, by colleagues involved in an investigation into matters about which I blogged awhile ago.
I do not wish recklessly or carelessly to comment…Read more…
‘Catalogue of pain’
Overstretched ambulance crews are arriving late to pick up more than a third of critical emergency victims, while the number of ambulances waiting outside casualty departments for at least an hour…Read more…
Ministers must stop interfering in council pensions, says UNISON
MPs will debate the future of the local government pension scheme (LGPS) in Westminster Hall today (Monday) in response to concerns that the government plans to interfere in investment decisions….Read more…
Protecting pensions
The ‘pig-headed’ failure of Post Office bosses to hold constructive talks over the closure of the defined salary pension scheme has prompted more than seven hundred managers to stage a second 24-hour…Read more…
This week, lets focus on making work healthy and safe for everyone
UNISON has a proud record of supporting health and safety reps in the workplace, and building positive relationships on these issues with employers – that’s why we’re handing out “High 5’s” to…Read more…
Health & Safety Week – challenging authority.
‘Those in authority must always be challenged’. According to BBC presenter, John Humphries, that was the key lesson to be learned from the Aberfan disaster. Miners repeatedly warned the employers…Read more…
If you can make directors liable for cold-calling, why not for killing workers?
Everyone hates cold callers, especially ones that try to get you to make claims for accidents or PPI you did not know you had. Every year the Information Commissioner gets hundreds of thousands of…Read more…
Heart sick
The plan to end heart surgery at Leicester’s Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre is ‘a scandal of national proportions’ Unite has said. The country’s largest union – which has 100,000…Read more…
Who will lose out when we leave the single market? Civitas admit it would be the UK
Today, pro-Brexit think tank Civitas has released a report saying that the EU will lose out from the increases in trade tariffs likely to result from Brexit. Even from the campaign that brought you £350m a week to spend on the NHS, this is a quite remarkably bad argument. As their own figures show,…Read more…
European Health and Safety Week 2016 – 24 October – 30 October
Healthy workplaces for all ages (this advice has gone out this week on my employers website. We will he carrying out joint union and management safety inspections)
Each year, European Health and Safety Week aims to promote goo…d health and safety practice. This year’s theme is Healthy…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
Protecting the pension promise
When is a promise not a promise? In my household, safeguarding of confectionary and sharing of toys are both subject to frequent exemptions. But beyond domestic squabbles, the subject is getting an airing in the pensions world. In the firing line is th…Read more…
London Loop Walk: Section 8 – The Causeway to Uxbridge Lock
This is off message and a very late post. Gill and I have been walking (very slowly and in fits and starts) around our capital city via the London Loop long distance path. It is circular route, 150 miles long, made up of 15 different sections. We start…Read more…