Session “ After Copenhagen, Chapel Hill and Paris attacks: Uniting against Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe” It is always a pleasure to speak at UAF events. The CWU believes that UAF…Read more…
LATEST: Steelworkers – Oil Strike Expands : 7,000 Workers On Strike
The United Steelworkers (USW) announced that it will expand its unfair labour practice strike (ULP) by launching a work stoppage at midnight at the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Port Arthur, Texas….Read more…
London Loop Walk: Section 2 – Old Bexley to Jubilee Park
Off message but photos are from the 2nd London Loop Walk last Sunday. This was just under 8 miles and much more attractive than the first. The riverside walk along the River Cray was very muddy but it was fun watching daft dogs jumping into the freezin…Read more…
What future for Council Housing?
Council housing and the housing crisis A book by Martin Wicks Everybody knows there is a housing crisis. However, it is usually written about by academics or professionals who work in the housing sector. Tenant voices are rarely heard. What Future for …Read more…
Energy profits and the failed market
Scottish Power profits have increased by 41% year-on-year in its generation and supply business for 2014. This comes after the Competitions Authority said the Big Six providers, including Scottish…Read more…
“The Tories have become the political wing of the Hedge Fund Party”
This story in the Guardian is petty shocking. This email below was sent out on Tuesday by Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol.
Of course the real scandal is these Hedge funds managers are only making this money in the first place by ripping off you…Read more…
UNISON NEC – the other report
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/the-most-important-election
The link above is to the official report of yesterday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC).
It rightly focuses on the two most important topics which we discussed.
First,…Read more…
Fidelity, the Tory-friendly fund manager
As the latest info from the Electoral Commission reveals, Fidelity is still funding the Tories. £25,000 donated in November took their total for 2014 up to £120,000.
They are also still paying Tory MP Sir John Stanley for advice on “business opportunities and risks” at the rate of £1,800 a month…Read more…
UNISON Greater London Housing Association Branch AGM 2015
Picture collage from last night’s Annual General Meeting which took place at the iconic Greater London Assembly Building City Hall, which is next to Tower Bridge. Long standing member of our branch and London Assembly member, Murad Qureshi, was our hos…Read more…
Such treatment of staff is a National Disgrace
NATIONAL GALLERY, January 19. Two thirds of staff told jobs will be privatised.
FINE art can be a profitable business, hoarded as private wealth, or patronised for prestige by big business,…Read more…
Using public procurement for a fairer Scotland
More than £10bn of Scottish taxpayers cash goes on buying goods and services in the private sector. This procurement activity could do much more to deliver the Scottish Government and other public…Read more…
Morning Star comment: Divide and rule is the oldest trick in the book
Comment in today’s Morning Star. Scapegoating immigrants is a way to distract attention from the economic crisis and who caused it. You have to go back to the 1930s to find anything worse in…Read more…
Defend the right to strike – under threat at home and abroad
Today a global day of action in defence of the right to strike is being called to highlight the serious attacks on fundamental union rights. The Institute of Employment Rights reports that the…Read more…
The Great White Elephant on the Euston Road
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) who have been disappointed by my recent silence (attributable to the volume of work some of us are facing at branch level) will note that – in the run up to tomorrow’s meeting of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) I am blogging again…Read more…
Priorities for public service unionism
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment/index.cfm/100000th-pcs-member-signs-up-to-direct-debit
In what we all hope are the last weeks of a Government which has shown a more consistently visceral hostility to trade unionism than any of its predecessors since the early nineteenth…Read more…
Uncovering the Past, Making Sure There’s No Cover-up in Present
ARCHEOLOGICAL excavations due to start soon at Liverpool Street, in London’s central business district, will uncover the bones of many poor, forgotten Londoners, buried in part of the 16th…Read more…
UNISON standing up to racism
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/stand-up-to-racism
It’s good to see UNISON’s high profile support for the forthcoming demonstration against racism, in London on 21 March.
As the continuing crisis unleashed by the banking collapse continues to work …Read more…
Fair Pay Fortnight – Britain Needs a Pay Rise
Check out TUC website. These facts are a national disgrace and no Party except Labour will do anything to change this. “From 16 February to 1 March 2015 the TUC is running Fair Pay Fortnight, a series of events across the country that will raise awareness about Britain’s cost of living crisis.
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Democratise our savings – Why we need a Magna Carta for Pensions
Many thanks to Henry Tapper for the plug on his website “Pension Playpen – Restoring Confidence in Pension”.
Henry talks sense and reflects a fairly widespread unease amongst member nominated trustees at least, that “professional” or corporate trustee…Read more…
Fair Pay Fortnight begins today
A timely reminder of what five years of a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government has meant for the pay packets of working peopleRead more…