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This afternoon was the start of the Unison National Seminar for Community (Housing Associations & Voluntary Sector) in Bradford.
Beforehand there was a meeting of delegates who work in community sectors. I went to the Housing Associations meeting….Read more…
Germany’s largest union IG Metall which cover engineering, automotive, aerospace, electrical and other skilled metalworking trades has agreed a 3.4% pay rise for 12 months from April. The union,…Read more…
Hat tip Mr Rayner.Read more…
I’ve just realised that I promised to put my review of Arthur Johnstone and Friends at The Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow up once it had been published in the Morning Star, and I’ve forgotten to do this!…Read more…
There is a great bit of research out today from the TUC on the pay of FTSE100 remuneration committee members. It won’t be any surprise to most people that the executives of FTSE100 companies are amongst the richest in the UK and indeed the world. But w…Read more…
The announcement of devolved NHS funding to Greater Manchester authorities is surprising on many fronts not least because the shadow Labour health secretary lives in the patch, Labour council leaders…Read more…
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Convenor: John Burgess – 61 Yvonne Green – 119
Deputy Convenor: April Ashley – 60 Conroy Lawrence – 111
Finance Convenor:John Gray – 117 Hugo Pierre – 57
Publicity Officer: Lynn Bentley – 115 Phoebe Watkins – 60
Equalities Convenor: Liz Baptiste – 124 Angela Boyle – 52
The cry…Read more…
Colleagues,
Ruskin College once again hosts the UK’s premiere opportunity to explore the intersection between frontline developments in the world of work and scholarly activity.
As with last year the line up features Ruskin staff and students of the …Read more…
Thank you for the opportunity to address your AGM. Our regional committees are for the branches, to have a forum to discuss our general position in the wider labour movement. Now, we are in election…Read more…
In order to divert attention from the public sector jobs carnage caused by its austerity policies, the Conservative Party claims that ‘there are now two million more private sector jobs than there…Read more…
Check out Tom P post “Fidelity, the Tory-friendly fund manager”
Just think about it. The multi millionaire owners of Fidelity uses profits from managing Council pension funds to promote the Tories – who want to sack and/or destroy the pay and co…Read more…
There’s no doubt over the CWU’s commitment to the return of a majority Labour Government. This is the policy of the union’s Annual Conference. It is the policy that we have been working…Read more…
This motion was passed at my branch AGM which took place in City Hall last week. It will be one of our motions submitted to our UNISON National Conference in June (the other on “Union Busting”).
If people think a “Living Wage” makes sense, then what a…Read more…
One of the more interesting books I read in the past couple of years is the Future of Private Enterprise by George Goyder. It’s interesting for various reasons. For one, it’s a reminder that when it was published (1954) mainstream views about the natur…Read more…
Paying a privatised English water company to provide Scottish public water to Scotland’s public services has to be the ultimate in market madness.
An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times reports that…Read more…
Five million workers are earning less than the living wageRead more…
UNISON was the UK’s top political donor in the fourth quarter of 2014! Electoral Commission data published last week confirms that a total of £1,384,289 was donated to the Labour Party from our…Read more…
We are being taken for mugs. Workers and the share owners of companies (such as pension and insurance policy holders) alike are being ripped off. The father of modern day economics, Adam Smith, (not someone I usually cite and whose book “Wealth of Nati…Read more…
“FREEDOM OF SPEECH” has been much talked about lately, in the wake of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killings and with regard to such slightly less serious matters as the enthusiasm with which some groups of…Read more…
Well said Dennis.Read more…