The nomination period for election of the union’s service group executives opens on Tuesday 12 January
The article 2016 service group executive elections first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Unfair fares are up
This week (January 4) rail fares increased to the anger of commuters, who have been left to pick up the cost of rail privatisation. The increase of one per cent increase to season tickets and…Read more…
57th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution:
A cannon salute for the Revolution and victory The firing of a battery of six 122 millimeter shells M-30, by 30 cadets from the Revolutionary Armed Forces’ General Antonio Maceo School resounded in…Read more…
Rtuc's Blog 2016-01-05 13:35:28
Maxim Gorky 2016 marks the 8oth anniverary of the death of Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), known…Read more…
‘No more cuts to the Environment Agency’
UNISON calls on government to maintain Agency funding in wake of floods
The article ‘No more cuts to the Environment Agency’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Unison Branch AGM Wednesday 24 February 2016
The City of Stoke-On-Trent Local Government Branch AGM will take place on Wednesday 24 February 2016 at 5.30 pm at the Jubilee Hall, Civic Centre, Stoke. A buffet is available from 4.45 pm but this must be pre-ordered by e-mailing … Continue reading →Read more…
A West Ham evening with Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Seema Malhotra MP
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The State Pension muddle and 1950s women
On Thursday, Mhairi Black, the youngest MP in the House of Commons, will do her bit for intergenerational solidarity by opening a House of Commons debate on State Pension age changes. A long-simmering row over the impact on women born in the 1950s of a combination of State Pension Age equalisation…Read more…
Getting to Work Shouldn’t be a luxury. But Tory Tickets Cost a Fortune.
This morning I was outside Plaistow Underground station with West Ham Labour Party comrades handing out leaflets on fare rises to commuters going into work. Outside railway and bus stations across the country, Labour and trade union activists wer…Read more…
A challenging year
It’s the start of a new year: and a challenging one for UNISON members, the services they provide, and for the union
The article A challenging year first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Times tables tests – as easy as 1, 2, 3?
By Anne Heavey, Education Policy Adviser at ATL. Happy New Year! Yesterday Nicky Morgan announced that in 2017 every 11 year old child will take an online test to check that they know their times…Read more…
Union paramedic ‘shocked’ at new year honours MBE
Steve Evans, a UNISON member who works at the North West Ambulance Service, has declared himself “shocked” after receiving an MBE in the new year honours. Mr Evans, a paramedic who works…Read more…
Join a union to make your life better
Join a union to make your life better, TUC tells low-paid workers General secretary Frances O’Grady calls on employees to band together to confront low wage growth and zero-hours contracts Frances…Read more…
A life lost can mean another saved
Becoming an organ donor can be a gift – both for the lives you save, and the loved ones you leave behind
The article A life lost can mean another saved first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Flooding – dealing with the aftermath
The last few weeks have seen misery for people in many parts of the country as they have battled with the floods and their aftermath, both in their homes and their workplaces. For many people, this…Read more…
Save Our NHS Bursaries
I have just signed the Parliamentary Petition here to keep bursaries for trainee NHS Nurses. The petition has 148,815 supporters (according to the map on the site 250 have signed from my West Ham Consistency.
Parliament will debate this petition on Ja…Read more…
A Seasonal Message: DEMON USA!
Christmas Then… and Now Demonically, in time (for) Christmas, we learn that the rulers of the United States of America had plans at one time to wipe out humanity with nuclear war. As Christians…Read more…
A “New” Labour Year
In between Christmas and New Year I was laid low with the lergie so stayed in and managed to finish off inputting the “marked register” data for the ward onto the Party database “Contact Creator” for the 2015 General Election.
The register is an actua…Read more…
My Favourite Picture of 2015
Off message but been looking through my albums for my favourite photo from 2015. This one is from a walk up and down Place Fell, in the Lake District narrowly wins. Click on photo to bring up more detail.
See my post on the walk here.
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Capture the momentum built up during 2015, provide inspiration for the tasks of 2016.
RTUC gives political perspective of the Trades Unions and organises from the standpoint of the Workers’ Opposition on the Isle of Wight. The Workers’ Opposition is both the general resistance and…Read more…