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Date: Monday 15 June 2015
UNISON is calling on MSPs to oppose new legislation which aims to substantially increase registration fees for professions registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee will consider this subordinate legislation (regulations) at its meeting on Tuesday, 16 June. UNISON is requesting an opportunity toRead more…
For pensioner couples, the death of a partner can lead to financial worry as well as grief for the one left behind. For this reason, many defined benefit pension schemes continue to pay a proportion of the pension to the survivor. But thanks to a littl…Read more…
This is a crucial year for the planet as world leaders meet in Paris in December to thrash out a new international agreement on climate change. As Lord Stern, and others, warned last month, pledges…Read more…
#uLGC15 North Lanarkshire’s John Mooney brought a Scottish perspective to the debate on organising in schools as Local Government delegates backed a range of measures to support recruitment in schools and campaigning of school issues.
John slammed the Scottish Government’s insistence on an arbitrary freeze on teacher numbers. He warned, “This ill thought out, non scientific, arbitrary freeze onRead more…
Unite members vote to establish industrial action fundRead more…
As the Government has confirmed plans to curve the right to strike, UNITElive spoke with Unite’s director of legal services Howard Beckett in an exclusive interview. Government…Read more…
#uLGC15 ‘I have tried not to focus on the doom and gloom, but to give you a flavour of the struggles that take place every day around the UK, struggles and resistance by you and our members that we…Read more…
At the ILO conference earlier this month, the International Trade Union Confederation launched its 2015 Global Rights Index, detailing the ten worst countries for workers’ rights abuses in the…Read more…
OTJC says it is renewing calls for a public inquiry into the 1984 incident that saw police on horseback charging striking minersRead more…
Frances O’Grady calls on government to shelve anti-union reformsRead more…
Delegates at UNISON’s annual conference yesterday walked out in solidarity with a rep sacked by managers at the venue. Gardener Robert O’Driscoll, health and safety rep at Glasgow’s Scottish…Read more…
NUJ members pass motions of no confidence in managers over plans to introduce individual audience targetsRead more…
NASUWT says teachers are a precious resource and should be valuedRead more…
“In a few weeks’ time, we will be casting our votes for who will be the Labour candidate for Mayor of London.
Before voting begins, you will have a chance be put the candidates to the test in hustings being held across London.
This is your chance to put your questions to the candidates and hear…Read more…
Yes, I know about an increase in population and low turnout in 2005 but…
#justsaying.
Makes you think maybe it wasn’t that bad…?
Hat tip Dr Éoin ClarkeRead more…
Dave Galligan was the Regional Secretary of COHSE in Wales in the 1980’s and 1990’s the Regional Head of Health for UNISON until 2013.
Worked at the University of Wales Hospital, COHSE NEC member of Wales
Died 17th February 2015 aged 66
Wife Ka…Read more…
Last week the NAPF launched a discussion document to address what it says is a “workforce-sized hole” in corporate reporting. In the introduction to the paper the NAPF says:
within the Environmental, Social and Governance acronym the understanding and…Read more…