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Lyn Brown MP report in West Ham CLP Newsletter
Lyn Brown Update I hope you are all keeping safe and well. We are sadly still living in very dystopian times, with a lockdown still in place, and many struggling in our communities. I am so very grateful to so many of you who are ou…Read more…
For Labour Party members – what happens in Scotland matters in England (and Wales)
Among the legacies of New Labour in Government were a series of partial and unfinished constitutional innovations, including (for example) limited reform of the House of Lords (to remove voting rights from most, but not all, hereditary peers, leaving a…Read more…
Moving pension funds past the greenwash
The investment industry is responding to the demands of pension funds for investment strategies that address climate change. However, we should seek to distinguish between meaningful action and…Read more…
Care workers looking after sick and elderly still not getting regular Covid tests, says UNISON
Government failing on pledge to test staff every seven days
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Testing plans need more detail
Government appears more concerned with headline grabbing
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Our Negotiator. What can possibly go wrong?
Xmas relaxation plans should be scrapped
Unite, which represents over 100,000 health workers, has backed a call by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Health Service Journal (HSJ) that the government’s plans to relax social distancing…Read more…
Unite backs Greenwich council in schools decision
Unite the union continues to back the original decision made by Greenwich council to move classes online from today (December 15). Unite accused the education secretary Gavin Williamson, who has…Read more…
Plymouth tug crew strikes
Royal Naval shipping movements around Plymouth will be plunged into ‘Christmas chaos’ when specialist tug operators at Devonport’s naval base employed by outsourcer Serco Marine go on strike, Unite…Read more…
New Unite construction guide ‘invaluable tool’
Unite, the UK’s construction union, has launched a comprehensive construction guide to help ensure the safety of construction workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The guide titled Construction…Read more…
UNISON backs councils’ attempt to close schools amid COVID spike
‘The surge in cases in our schools is extremely concerning … Enough is enough’
The article UNISON backs councils’ attempt to close schools amid COVID spike first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Labour Party democracy and the role of the General Secretary
This is a cross-posting of a piece I have written for LabourHub in relation to the election of the General Secretary of the Labour Party. (I would recommend that readers have a look at LabourHub regularly.)
Perceptive readers (Sid and Doris Eag…Read more…
Reinstate Sharon Morgan – Trade Union rep sacked by London Design and Engineering School in Royal Docks
What a dreadful story. A teacher trade union rep sacked for undertaking a staff welfare survey. What bullying behaviour. Her union makes an emergency application to an employment tribunal which finds that the school has acted “morally reprehensi…Read more…
The ConDem Christmas Carol – ten years on…
It’s that time of year I suppose, so here is a reminder of a seasonal song from ten years ago, as students began the first phase of years of struggle against the austerity politics of the then Coalition Government.
Merry Xmas to regular readers…Read more…
Unite welcomes gov’t talks on Sizewell C plant
The government needs to put its foot on the accelerator in the talks with energy giant EDF on the construction of the new £20bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant, Unite said today (December 14). Unite…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
The strike by Unite members at Heathrow Airport continues to gain momentum on their second day of strike action today (December 14) against the imposition of permanent pay cuts which will see their…Read more…
Calling members who are cleaners, housekeepers and domestics
UNISON survey will help inform its response to a government consultation on low-paid workers
The article Calling members who are cleaners, housekeepers and domestics first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Support There for You and get conference bags for your branch
Our 2020 conference bag stock is being made available to raise funds for There for You, UNISON’s unique welfare charity
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Branch resources review moves to consider range of options
Following the results of the union’s branch survey, the working group is now developing a list of proposals to help branches
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