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Heritage and Security
SO OFTEN THE BACKDROP for protests, like last September’s march for the NHS, the National Gallery, one of Britain’s biggest tourist attractions, is the centre of a struggle for jobs and a living…Read more…
Austerity cuts are threatening the future of local authority services in England, says TUC
16 January 2015 The future of local authority services in England are under threat from a growing funding crisis, with significant cuts already being made to statutory adult care and children’s…Read more…
REINSTATE CHARLOTTE CAMPAIGN: PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHS campaigners rally support for sacked Whipps Cross whistleblower during Employment Tribunal Campaigners and trade unionists will gather outside an Employment Tribunal on…Read more…
One step forward, one step back
I was one of more than 120 UNISON activists present at a “Reclaim the Union” meeting this afternoon at the Manchester Mechanics Institute, birthplace of the TUC.
Activists were present from every British Region of the Union, about a third coming from the North West, a quarter from Greater London…Read more…
Election of CIH London Regional Board 2015
I have just voted on-line for a new Chartered Institute of Housing Regional Board for London. I had to support my former Tower Hamlets colleague Jan Taranzuk. The only Chief officer I have ever known who use to work in Housing and at the same time live…Read more…
Don’t let the Tories Kill the Health Service: Vote Labour on May 7th
This has not been commissioned by the Labour Party but by The Independent who invited ad agency companies to think up posters for all political parties. Actually, I hope the Party uses it!Read more…
All Out Turkish Metal Workers Strike Begins On January 29th
By Eyup Ozer, Birleşik Metal-İş Negotiations between Birleşik Metal-İş union and Metal Employers’ Association (MESS) during the “group collective bargaining agreement” (*) for 2014 – 2016 term…Read more…
The Guv’s common sense message to the UK
Well, I never – Pub Landlord Al Murray standing against UKIP and Farage as Parliamentary candidate for FUKP in South Thanet. Read more…
Growing funding crisis in local government threatens public services
A growing funding crisis in local government is threatening the future of local public services in England. According to new analysis published today in Austerity Uncovered significant cuts have already been made to statutory adult social care and children’s services – with more cuts to come….Read more…
Union-busting at the heart of this government?
We’ve long been used to the hostility towards trade unions exhibited by some of the more excitable elements on the fringes of the Tory right. From Aiden Burley and the Trade Union Reform Campaign to…Read more…
Article 14: Prohibition of discriminaiton
17 January 2015
By Aileen McColgan, Matrix Chambers and King’s College London
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The EU’s giant and secretive deregulation blitz
16 January 2015
By Linda Kaucher
It is not just TTIP, across the board the EU is bowing to business pressure to do away with ‘burdensome’ regulation – regulation that tends to…Read more…
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Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: Most Remploy workers never got another job
In 2012 the government closed down the subsidy for the disabled workers in more than fifty Remploy factories around the country. By September 2013 all but three had closed; the GMB estimates that 2,700 workers lost their jobs. Some of those weren’t disabled; the House of Commons library estimates…Read more…
Pooled funds, voting and fiduciary duty
As some people will be aware, there is a considerable degree of frustration amongst some asset owners in the UK that they are unable to vote how they want when investing through pooled funds. There isn’t any technical reason why this can’t happen, some…Read more…
Personal Injuries, Workers Memorial Day & Bite Sized Intro to Health and Safety at Work
The picture is from a course I helped run last year for my UNISON branch on Health and Safety. It was organised by our Outreach Worker, Andy Robinson and the guest speaker was Personal Injury lawyer from Thompsons Shamoona Sheikh (right of photo).
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UNISON support for PCS – now is the time!
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Regular readers (Sid and Doris Blogger) will know that I am never wrong.
Sometimes, however, in my eagerness to share my views I can omit context as I may have do…Read more…
Let’s not perpetrate a fraud upon members involved in the single fraud investigation service transfer!
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The Pension Deficit – Outsourcing
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