Leaders of two of Norway’s largest labour unions have merged. Together they will represent around 160,000 workers in the transport, construction, hotel, restaurant and automobile sectors….Read more…
Black members debate how to tackle knife crime
On the final morning of UNISON’s Black member’s conference, delegates opened with an emotional debate on the tragic toll of knife crime and how to combat the problem. Paulette Whyte for the national…Read more…
Israeli elections 2019: Battle of the insiders
“I was a minister in Netanyahu’s government and know it’s impossible to create change from there.” Those are the words of Avi Gabbay, the embattled leader of Israel’s rapidly-fading Labor Party. But…Read more…
UNISON NEC elections 2019: Black Member’s Conference
Great picture from a chilly Llandudno, North Wales this morning. UNISON black members conference is taking place here. Members were out leafleting delegates as they arrived for conference.
NEC branch nominations last until 15 February. Read more…
Former vice president issues inspiring call to action
Carol Sewell urges Black members to be the ‘best they can be’ in UNISON
The article Former vice president issues inspiring call to action first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Windrush ‘nightmare’ won’t end until ‘hostile environment’ does
Black members share stories of individuals and families whose lives have been affected by the scandal
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President thanks Black members for all their work
Gordon McKay uses speech to damn a government working to ‘undermine and punish working people’
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Nelson Mandela Award winner issues challenge to employers
Mo Mohammed says it’s one thing for public services to recruit a diverse workforce but another to retain it
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Black workers are vital to the future of our public services, says UNISON general secretary
Speaking at UNISON’s annual Black Members Conference today (Friday) in Llandudno, general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Last the NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary, yet the descendants of those that…Read more…
Blog: Just as we took on Enoch Powell and his rivers of blood, we will fight today’s hate-mongers
It’s a difficult and worrying time for anyone who cares about the equality and fights injustice. Sometimes battling against bigotry, racism and xenophobia can feel like an impossible task. But I know…Read more…
Prentis says ‘no-deal Brexit’ would be disastrous for workers
General secretary tells Black members’ conference that UNISON is vital in the fight against an ‘incompetent and malicious’ government
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UNISON – standing together to fight racism and xenophobia
Black members’ conference is united around the need to work together to injustice and bigotry
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‘Cheap Chinese imports’ threat
The loss of 300 jobs at Cooper Tires at Melksham, Wiltshire has been blamed on ‘cheap Chinese tyre imports’ by Unite today (January 18). “We are blaming the continued dumping of…Read more…
Treated with contempt
Both NHS staff and patients are being treated with contempt, as the lurch toward privatisation continues unabated, and NHS bosses mismanage what little funding the health service has in the midst of…Read more…
Review: Soviet Opposition to Stalin – A case study in World War II, by George Fischer
This short book was an early history of Vlasov movement, which during the second world war aimed to create a Russian army of “liberation” that would fight side by side with the Germans…Read more…
More short stuff
Again, huge caveat that the data in these charts is only 0.5%+ short positions, but some interesting stuff I think. At the end of play yesterday the FCA had disclosed 581 current short positions of 0.5% and above in UK shares. So I looked at which firm…Read more…
Union innovation in Denmark – HK Lab
Mathias Askholm co-leads HK Lab, an ambitious innovation project at Denmark’s HK union that is helping the union and its members adapt to the implications of technological change. He joined us for a…Read more…
A year after Carillion, it's time to shine a light on public service outsourcing
Outsourcing giant Carillion’s collapse symbolised the bankruptcy of the privatisation dogma – we need a new Domesday Book to make public service contracts transparentRead more…
Malvern Hills New Year Walks 2019. Joy & Sadness
Mostly off message but Gill and spent new year in Great Malvern, Worcestershire. We had never been here before but I had seen the historical railway poster (see bottom right) and thought it might be a good place to go walking.
It turned out to be a fa…Read more…