A town has commemorated 100 years since female workers at its biscuit factory walked out in a landmark dispute over pay. The 1916 strike at Reading’s Huntley and Palmers also saw women and…Read more…
Joint trade union statement on the Labour party
29 June 2016 The current crisis within the parliamentary Labour party is deeply regrettable and unnecessary. Last week’s vote to leave the European Union presents the entire labour movement with…Read more…
You’ll never walk alone with Eric
Eric Roberts looks forward to a year as the president of ‘the best union in the country’
The article You’ll never walk alone with Eric first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
How are the SATs expected standards set?
By Anne Heavey, ATL education policy adviser. The key stage 2 test results this year look very different to results in previous years. The curriculum being assessed is different, the tests are…Read more…
Add your name to the call for EU citizens’ right to remain
UNISON stands with all those who have a right to work in this country and will continue to defend their right to do so – Dave Prentis
The article Add your name to the call for EU citizens’…Read more…
Union rights are good for all
Criminal penalties should be imposed on bosses who blacklist workers, according to a new Manifesto for labour law. The manifesto, written by the Institute of Employment Rights (IER)…Read more…
Health staff pay increase in Northern Ireland
Statement from UNISON Northern Ireland head of bargaining and representation Anne Speed
The article Health staff pay increase in Northern Ireland first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Battle of the books’ strike
The long-running ‘battle of the books’ in Greenwich opens a new chapter tomorrow (Tuesday July 5) when library workers strike for 48 hours to save the borough’s mobile library service from closure….Read more…
Where Eagles Dare?
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-07-04/eagle-warns-corbyn-she-will-resolve-labour-crisis/
This has now become boring Angela.
If someone else wants to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party let them stand for election.
An ideal candidate…Read more…
Do you know a health hero?
Our Health Heroes awards launched during One Team for Patient Care week of action
The article Do you know a health hero? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Education reform – empowerment or centralisation?
The Scottish Government has signalled education as its first priority, most notably by giving the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney the lead role. Possibly shades of Tony Blair’s, education,…Read more…
Education reform – empowerment or centralisation?
The Scottish Government has signalled education as its first priority, most notably by giving the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney the lead role. Possibly shades of Tony Blair’s, education,…Read more…
How are cuts affecting LGBT people and services?
UNISON commissions research on implications of public spending cuts
The article How are cuts affecting LGBT people and services? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
USi at the GLI International Summer School 4th July – 8th July 2016
All this week, USi will be reporting from the Global Labour Institute (GLI) International Summer School at Northern College, Barnsley. The Summer School, now in its fifth year, is described as…Read more…
Tiger, Tiger burning bright in West Ham
What a terrific street art painting in my West Ham ward at Holbrook Road junction with Plaistow Road, West Ham. E15.
I am not sure if there is a William Blake connection but it does remind me of his famous poem (see below – one of my favourties). I un…Read more…
Democracy is on the line. Time to do all we can to Keep Corbyn.
It is not as simple as “Jeremy Corbyn ought not to resign.” Nor is it as straightforward as he is an admirable and brave man (though he is) and that those who stand by him in Parliament are the best of the political representatives of our class (though…Read more…
Labour leadership woes are ‘midsummer madness’
BBC news. “Labour’s former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott has waded into the row over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership saying: “He’s only been in the job nine months – do you know anyone who gets sacked within nine months?”
He says he doesn’t agre…Read more…
Defending Corbyn and Freedom of Movement
Unite’s National Industrial Sector Committee (NISC) for my sector (GPM&IT) met this week and agreed to submit the following as emergency motions to the Unite Policy Conference this month.
It is likely that the “leadership” will try to avoid either…Read more…
Give EU migrants already here an assurance they can stay
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has co-signed a letter in the Sunday Telegraph today building on the joint statement that she made with CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn last week, calling on the government to guarantee that EU migrants already in the UK can stay no matter what…Read more…
Support Corbyn – Join Labour
The evidence that Angela Eagle’s (as yet still unannounced) leadership bid was planned in advance tells us more than we want to know about the flinching and sneering ones who are trying to bring Jeremy Corbyn down.
Because these career politicians (for whom their own position within Blair’s Labour…Read more…