Tube strike begins across London Underground network Tube staff have gone on strike across the entire London Underground network in a row over pay and conditions. The strike, which officially began…Read more…
Solidarity in action
In 1973, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Bob Fulton, three Unite members took a stand against a coup on the other side of the world. They refused to help Pinochet bomb the people of Chile. …Read more…
Speeches from the, “Greece Says No” Victory Rally:
The Greece-tuc-meeting, TUC Congress House was packed on Monday night to celebrate the remarkable victory for OXI/NO in Sunday’s referendum in Greece. The Greece Solidarity Campaign’s rally was…Read more…
Budget aftershock: Osborne’s £3.9 billion tax on green power
The Chancellor’s £3.9 billion tax on renewable energy generators “is a punitive measure for the clean energy sector…another example of this Government’s unfair, illogical and obsessive attacks on renewables.” Renewable electricity will no longer be exempt from the Climate Change Levy…Read more…
Budget: Insult to NHS staff
Today George Osborne announced that I and my NHS colleagues will face another four years of restricted pay. It is an absolute insult to the passionate healthcare staff who work in the NHS….Read more…
Banks back to ‘dark ages’?
Following yesterday’s Budget (July 8), Unite warned George Osborne that his plan to scrap the bank levy shows the Tory government are ditching their responsibility to bring order to the…Read more…
We won’t let them destroy us
Young members in Unite have condemned yesterday’s Tory Budget following what we believe to be an assault on young people by the Chancellor. George Osbourne has committed to ending university…Read more…
European Parliament votes on TTIP: What next?
MEPs voted yesterday on an important report concerning the TTIP EU-US trade deal.Read more…
Unite Rules Conference – day three
The main excitement on Wednesday was motion 2/1 from the Executive Council, which removed “so far as may be lawful from rule “2.1 The objects of the Union shall, as far as may be lawful, be:”. Len McCluskey gave a great speech arguing why it was …Read more…
Pensions Board (not bored)
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With apologies for parochialism, I didn’t want to let pass blogging my attendance (though not as a member) at the inaugural meeting of the local Pensions Board last night (toppin…Read more…
European Parliament view on EU-US trade deal
The European Parliament has finally voted on its resolution about the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, or TTIP, the EU-US trade deal being negotiated by Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and US Trade Representative Mike Froman. Most of the news yesterday was about a compromise over…Read more…
Labour candidate for City and East: Greater London Assembly
There is an ongoing selection process to replace London Assembly Member, John Biggs, who has been elected as Mayor of Tower Hamlets and will be stepping down from his City and East London seat.
There are 18 candidates!
Greater London UNISON L…Read more…
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Derbyshire scraps school crossings A total of 54 Derbyshire schools will have no crossing patrol and 42 more could lose theirs Almost 100 schools in Derbyshire could be without a crossing patrol if…Read more…
Where were the measures to address the continuing housing shortage?
Today the Chancellor made a number of announcements in relation to housing, primarily in relation to people claiming benefits for social housing. Young people in particular will suffer as the government are abolishing the automatic entitlement for youn…Read more…
The budget headline is wages, but dig a little deeper….
The Chancellor’s summer UK budget today was long on spin, but the substance was less impressive once you delve into the detail.
The headlines are about wages with the introduction of a new national…Read more…
The poison politics of failed deficit reduction #summerbudget2015
Five years ago, the Chancellor set out policies to bring the public finances back under control. On the basis of any definition, these policies failed. Deficit reduction proceeded greatly slower than planned; public sector debt rose even higher than ex…Read more…
Not a workers’ budget
Massive and unfair cuts in tax credits and benefits are going to hit low-paid workers. Can the Chancellor hope to justify his claim that this is a “one nation Budget”? The key to any Budget is how it answers the question who gains and who loses? The big picture is explained well in the…Read more…
Born in the 90s? Then this Budget is not for you
“This is a one nation Budget,” announced the Chancellor in his introduction to today’s Budget, before announcing reforms that exclude under 25s from higher pay and 18-21 year olds from housing benefit, scrapping maintenance grants for students, and permitting elite (“high-quality teaching”)…Read more…
Annuity resales – at last someone in government has found the brake pedal
After a headlong rush into so-called pensions freedom, someone responsible for pensions policy in government appears to have found the brake pedal. Tucked away in the Budget announcements was the news that attempts to launch a secondary annuity market …Read more…
Budget shuts public sector workers out of the recovery, says UNISON
Wednesday 8 July 2015
UNISON | Budget shuts public sector workers out of the recovery, says UNISON
Budget shuts public sector workers out of the recovery, says UNISON
Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget Statement today (Wednesday) UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said:
“Capping
wages at a miserly one per cent for four more years for public sector
workers will hasten theRead more…