COHSE – Purdysburn Hospital, Belfast 1981
One of COHSE’s most active and highly influential branches
COHSE Branch Secretary later Regional Secretary Jimmy O’Reilly (front) and a young David Picking
Hammersmith Hospital – COHSE Cleaners 1984
Hammersmith Hospital cleaners on strike against pay cuts and privatisation 1984
(photo includes a shy sun glass wearing newly appointed Regional Officer Pete Marshall)Read more…
COHSE Banners
COHSE High Wycombe supporting Kent Miners 1984
COHSE Bangour Branch 1980 COHSE York (Fulford) Read more…
COHSE Officers 1975
COHSE Officers January 1975 (at Beatrice Webb House, Dorking
Bob Quick newly appointed officer
COHSE Northern Ireland and The Miners
COHSE National Executive Committee member Ray Blaney – Sterling work solidarity with the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
Ray became well known as a Workers Party councillor and later Ireland’s first Green Party councillorRead more…
COHSE TUC Delegation 1984
COHSE North West Region
Terry Foster originally from Burnley Victoria General Hospital later COHSE Regional Secretary Yorkshire and Humberside
COHSE Region 2
98 Mansfield road, Intake SheffieldRead more…
Bill Berry – COHSE
Bill Berry born 1958 and started work at Liverpool’s Walton and Fazakerley Hospital in 1976 as an ODA Technician, later he secured a clinical teaching certificate. In 1984 he became a COHSE Regional Officer in the North West and later UNISON
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Addenbrookes Hospital 1984 – Fighting Cuts
COHSE Branch Secretary and National Executive Committee member Haddu Mohammed – Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Tory health Minister Kenneth Clarke
A young, high profile and well respected COHSE NEC member
Thornton View Hospital Occupation 1984
Thornton View Hospital September 1984
David Williams, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Martin Kineavy
Nurses Betty Elie (COHSE) and Hazel Ward (NUPE)Read more…
NALGO Bristol City Council 1950
Where racism fears to tread
One evening more than 20 years ago, Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was putting petrol in his car at a local garage, when four teenage boys across the street began shouting racist abuse at…Read more…
‘Their fight is our fight’
Unite sent a message of “solidarity” to university staff planning to strike tomorrow (May 25) amid warnings its members could take action if university bosses failed to make an improved pay offer….Read more…
Voters in Wales should treat the Brexiters new-found faith in the NHS with extreme caution
The leave campaign’s loudest cheerleaders Boris Johnson and Michael Gove don’t even support a publicly-funded NHS. In the past they’ve backed introducing charges for patients and opening up more…Read more…
Pay us our due
Workers at the 2 Sisters owned Pizza Factory in Nottingham started voting yesterday (May 23) on possible strike action in a dispute over an outstanding pay claim for 2015. Unite which is…Read more…
French unions launch wave of protest against labour reform
French police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protests across the country on Tuesday. The day ended with 87 protesters arrested and 11 police officers injured nationwide, Interior…Read more…
Farewell to an old friend
One of the great difficulties of a life in a trade union is losing special people when they pass away
The article Farewell to an old friend first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Prospects for education services in Scotland
Giving the Deputy First Minister responsibility for education is meant to send a message that this service is a priority for the new government. So what might we expect in the coming years?
Let’s…Read more…
There For You – School Uniform Grants 2016
Worried about back to school costs? Are you: Struggling to cope with the rising cost of living? Finding that you’re having to economise in every area of expenditure? Help is At Hand There For You have set up a limited … Continue reading →Read more…
TUC welcomes increase in trade union membership
23 May 2016 New figures for trade union membership published today (Monday) by the Office for National Statistics, show that the overall number of trade union members has increased by 36,000 to 6.49…Read more…