International students bring in tens of billions annually to the UK economy. They generate over 130,000 jobs. They are quite literally a lifeline to the further and higher education sector in…Read more…
Stars and family gather in Glasgow to celebrate life of Tony Benn
Excitement is building ahead of the range of events arranged to celebrate the life of Tony Benn next weekend. Two major concerts and a couple of discussion groups are planned for Sunday 30 November…Read more…
Business minister takes gloves off in fight against Brussels
This morning I saw a very strange story in the Daily Mail. It claims that Matthew Hancock, the Business Minister has vowed to block a proposal that would mean the price of rubber gloves would soar…Read more…
A big thanks to NHS members
We must keep up the pressure on the government, and Jeremy Hunt in particular, so that they implement the pay body’s recommendationRead more…
Family Friendly working in 2014 – How are we doing?
24 November 2014
By Michelle Singleton, Assistant Policy Officer at UNISON.
Since 1998 there have been great improvements that have transformed family friendly policy and childcare provision,…Read more…
Branch Xmas Party
Come and socialise with fellow journos!
The Branch Xmas Party will at the Lord Nelson, Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ED
on Tuesday 16 December… from 7pm
Buffet food and free drinks for…Read more…
Breaking the law? Today’s peaceful #NHSstrike pickets could be illegal by next year
NHS workers are taking strike action across the country today, in protest at six years of pay freezes and the growing funding crisis in the health services they work to sustain. Peaceful pickets are…Read more…
Careers advice should be more than glossy leaflets and free pens
Liberty Pim is a sixth former at Charters School, Sunningdale It’s a shame to say that careers advice at school has so far only been an inconvenience to me, but it’s the truth. As a hardworking sixth…Read more…
Lies, Spies and Custard Pies
NOT ALL COMEDY. Mark Thomes made spies’ activity subject of Edinburgh show. But while he was interested in what arms dealers were up to, the police were more interested in him.
WELL-KNOWN…Read more…
The United Nations 10 Principles of Human Rights (“Nothing to do with us Guv” says Catalyst Housing)
These are “The 10 Principles of Human Rights”. It is disgraceful that the senior management and board of British Charities such as Catalyst Housing Association do not believe in basic human rights.
Principal 3 “Businesses should uphold the freedom …Read more…
Asbestos Killing British Military Veterans but does the Government give a damn?
“As the country this month remembered those who have died in conflicts, the TUC has said those who suffered and died as a result of hazardous exposures while serving in the forces should not be forgotten. Many contracted diseases they contracted while …Read more…
Our Future Free From Racism
“Our Future Free from Racism” – I’m only slightly embarrassed to confess that in recent months I seem to have adopted Twitter as my new home from home. When I recently posted – I mean ‘tweeted’-…Read more…
Trade Union Blacklisting: Our Turn to Make a Fuss
Colleagues,
On Friday in Manchester, Mike Emmott of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), spoke at the 50th anniversary event of the Manchester Industrial Relations Society (MIRS) and condemned as “a big fuss” the trade union fi…Read more…
LGBT conference builds fight against austerity
#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…
Why is there no sense of crisis about the future of the LGPS?
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…
UNISON request for extension to public consultation on Libraries refused
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…
Dennis Skinner blasts latest UKIP Bigot
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Not too late to abandon austerity
‘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…
Aiberdeen Street by Alastair Mackie
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…
On the practical benefits of defending the conditions of service of the local government workforce
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.
It was…Read more…