#ulgbt14 UNISON’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender members met this weekend in Blackpool for hopefully the last time under this Tory led Government.
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#ulgbt14 UNISON’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender members met this weekend in Blackpool for hopefully the last time under this Tory led Government.
As always LGBT Conference…Read more…
The AMNT yesterday sent in a response (below) to the Government (DCLG) consultation on proposed new regulations on how to run the new look Local Government Pension scheme (LGPS).
The LGPS is collectively the biggest funded Pension scheme in the UK and…Read more…
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Barnet UNISON earlier this week wrote to the Council expressing concern that the public’s access to the Library Review Consultation documents in the…Read more…
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‘If Labour now repudiated austerity in favour of the far more effective way of cutting the deficit through public investment to expand the economy out of stagnation, generate real jobs, increase…Read more…
Ye were hyne awa fae Nuremberg o the flags,
the death-crap o the purges; Il Duce’s
black-sarked legions heistin eagles…
Woolie’s guns and gairden canes airmed oor wars
focht on your cassies, oor…Read more…
I have a very long period of continuous local government service (I am not young).
As I have more than ten years such service, with my employer, according to the conditions of service negotiated with the local trade unions, I have 34 days paid leave each year in addition to public holidays.
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RMT Members of Interserve based at Waterloo were on strike for the second day against racism and bullying.
The strike action was solid which started with a leaflet campaign at Waterloo, followed by a…Read more…
Who will save the children of Falluja?
SATIRICAL song writer Tom Lehrer remarked that when US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize, satire became obsolete….Read more…
Great news from Parliament today, where Clive Efford’s private members’ bill passed on a significant vote.Read more…
Fracking is back in the news with the announcement that Ineos, the owners of the Grangemouth plant, has £640 million plans for shale gas exploration and appraisal. It already has two licences for…Read more…
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Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn Please find attached a revised schedule for the school focus groups. The groups are looking at job descriptions for all school support staff. It is really…Read more…
Branch poster ahead of the meeting on the 27th November 2014.
Mick Cash (RMT General Secretary) will be in attendance to address the branch.
If you can please try to attend.Read more…
Today the Commons will debate Labour MP Clive Efford’s worthy bill to save the NHS from irreversible privatisation, which will aim to reverse the Health & Social Care Act 2012 and seek to exempt…Read more…
As I observed yesterday, the Special Conference (which informed sources in the Euston Road now confidently predict) will consider how we should go about getting a decent pay increase for local government workers.
Some will understandably question the v…Read more…
We have had soup kitchens and shelters for the homeless for decades. But I despair that we live in a society that hundreds of thousands of UK children are dependent on personal charity to stop being hungry.
The cuts are getting worse, the safety net …Read more…
What should the education landscape look like in 2020? This is what we’ll be asking in our five, pre-election debates. These debates expand on key themes identified by our members and which shaped…Read more…
STAFF AT WATERLOO STATION TO STRIKE AGAIN ON FRIDAY
20 November 2014RMT Press OfficeFollowing a first phase of rock solid action on monday and tuesday this week, cleaners employed by Interserve,…Read more…