Union presents interim research into Carter Review recommendations on English NHS as health conference opens
The article UNISON vows to stand up for members over ‘savings’ review first…Read more…
Is neo-liberal globalisation running out of road?
I was inspired recently by an article in the Washington Post, which asked “what’s behind the revolt against global integration?” Partly because the policy prescriptions for getting…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day – wreath laying event: “Clasping hands” statute
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 “Everyone is welcome to attend this event on Thursday. UNISON estimates that up to 1,000 British workers die every week from work related…Read more…
Clinton & Sanders show the way on ‘trade’ agreements
While the current Democratic President of the USA, Barack Obama, tours Europe to raise support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the two candidates scrapping to be his successor back home are setting out markedly different …Read more…
USA: Uber Settlement Designates Drivers As Contractors
First the good news: Uber the ‘ride sharing’ company has announced this week it had settled two class action lawsuits iand agreed to pay up to $100 million to workers in California and…Read more…
NHS exploiting apprentices through low pay, warns UNISON
Many hospitals are treating apprentices as cheap labour by routinely paying them the minimum wage, even though they often do exactly the same jobs as colleagues earning considerably more, according…Read more…
How to confuse a Vegetarian….
Some Saturday fun. Apologies to anyone offended but..please 🙂 Hat tip Facebook. Read more…
Rebel Herstory of the Easter Rising
Cat HepburnThis weekend’s Morning Star carries a Connolly Association supplement,marking the centenary of the Easter Rising. It is worthy of purchase for that alone, of course, but to ensure the Arts…Read more…
UNISON and SERTUC – time to re-think
News reaches your humble blogger (from an Annual General Meeting) that one of the three unsuccessful candidates from amongst the 19 candidates contesting 16 seats on the Executive of the Southern and Eastern Region of the Trades Union Congress (SERTUC)…Read more…
#BOTW16 UNISON Scotland training weekend under way
Convener Lilian Macer visits a Welfare Officer session at UNISON Scotland’s annual new branch officer training weekend in Glasgow.Read more…
“Newham councillor gives gift of life with bone marrow donation”
Check out this report in this week’s Newham Recorder. Well done to Rokhsana for undergoing this operation to try and save a young child’s life. I must admit I winced at the thought of donating a pint and a half of my bone marrow. I have been a potentia…Read more…
TTIP talks face growing difficulties
The thirteenth round of negotiations of the free trade deal between the EU and the USA known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) starts in New York on 25 April 2016 amid…Read more…
Football fans champion the NHS
Supporters show appreciation for health service by applauding in the 68th minute – signifying the age of the NHS
The article Football fans champion the NHS first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Rana Plaza: Three years on
This weekend marks the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy, which shocked the world and jolted consumers, unions, activists and – eventually – brands into action over conditions faced by…Read more…
Turkish workers under further attacks
Sadly and as I have repeatedly reported on in my blogs, Turkish workers, their unions and wider civil society are under constant attack from their ever autocratic government. The latest example of…Read more…
Colombia’s bloody peace process
It is a bitter irony that given Colombia is engaged in a peace process the number of politically motivated killings has increased of late In the period 21 February 2016 to 18 March 2016 a total of 30…Read more…
‘Thumbs-up’ Tory shame
Gloating Tory councillors have shamelessly posed for a ‘thumbs up photo’ right in front of a children’s centre they’ve axed to save cash. Portsmouth council leader Donna Jones, children and…Read more…
‘Stuck in the bowels of hell’
Two hero miners saved the lives of nine of their comrades earlier this month, after the group were trapped by a huge fire 1.1km underground in a Teesside potash mine. The miners, all Unite…Read more…
‘Most pressing priorities’
The Scottish TUC (STUC) conference began this week on Monday (April 18 to 20), when delegates from Unite moved motions on a range of issues from the government’s controversial trade union Bill to…Read more…
Bellowhead – a pome
And now for something completely different.. a short poem what i wrote after seeing Bellowhead’s Farewell Tour at the O2 ABC.
In Memoriam
So farewell then…Bellowhead. There was a lot…Read more…