Tickets are now available for this year’s South West TUC-organised event with Billy Bragg, Seth Lakeman and The BeatRead more…
Why TTIP is bad for workers
#NoTTIP The recent War on Want Manchester conference – ‘TTIP: Building the Fightback’ – included a presentation by Jeronim Capaldo of TUFTS University in the USA. Capaldo’s study, ‘The Trans-Atlantic…Read more…
20 days to go. Are you one in a million? Don’t be
1 million people have fallen off the electoral roll since the government changed the way we register to vote back in September. Many won’t even know. If you’re a one in the million then you’ll miss out in the most important election in our times. But there’s still time to make sure that […]
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Election pledge: Tories to ban trade unions from public sector
Conservatives fight back against “excessive” wage claims in the NHSRead more…
100 business cheats: Labour threatens our cosy fat cat life
“Today big Tory Business lines up to attack ED Miliband and Labour by sending a letter to a right wing paper saying it would be a disaster if Labour are elected…. Look carefully at these companies and individuals.
They comprise of Corporate Tax Dod…Read more…
Austerity can lead to mental health issues at work, says report
Unions are finding ways of helping prevent mental health problems arising in the workplaceRead more…
Let’s Keep it Co-op Together.
If you are a member of the Co-op – check out this video on how to keep the co-operative partnership between the Co-op Group and the Co-op Party.
Work together in cooperation for a fairer Britain.Read more…
Possible Emergency Motion?
I’ve received the attached message from a branch I have never encountered before. I’m not sure I am in favour of it but am reproducing it here for any comments which readers have before our branch officers can meet to consider this at noon this Wednesday (1 April).
AN APPEAL TO UNISON BRANCHESDear…Read more…
“Incredible wealth in the UK exists alongside unimaginable poverty”
Check out the latest Inequality Briefing “Since 2009 executive pay has soared and the number of billionaires has increased, while food bank use has rocketed and pay for ordinary workers has fallen”.
If you want to really do something about thi…Read more…
Modern Slavery Act
So the Modern Slavery Bill has finally become the Modern Slavery Act. Unfortunately however its inadequacies flagged-up in my blog of 25 February were not addressed. On the very same day following a debate in the Lords my colleague Owen Tudor was able to report that the Government was defeated on…Read more…
Where will the axe fall?
The Tories are refusing to set out how they are going to cut £12 billion from the welfare budget. But documents leaked to the BBC show they are looking to hit carers, children and the disabled in the next round of cuts. Labour urged the Tories to ‘come clean’ about where the axe will […]
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UNISON NEC elections – your chance to have your say (about nearly two thirds of your Executive…)
http://www.unison.org.uk/about/our-organisation/lay-structure-democracy-and-elections/elections/
The ballot for election of members to UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) opens next week and the list of candidates (your blogger included) has now been published.23 out of 65 seats on the…Read more…
Why has Austerity failed?
Austerity is severe medicine administered by the minority for the majority, hence the notion of being, “All in it together” in practice is false. It is the Victorian bourgeois values of hard work not…Read more…
Striking for a fair deal
As UNITElive reported today, most of us expect our pay to stay the same this year or rise ever-so-slightly. Drivers who transport disabled children to school for Hackney council, however, face something else entirely – an astounding 50 per cent slash in their wages as the local authority embarks on vicious cost-cutting measures. […]
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Here comes the sun – Banister House launches solar co-op
Tonight, residents at Banister House, Hackney are launching the first solar power farm in north London, not in a field but on the sunblest flat rooftops of 14 council blocks on the estate. Backed by Repowering London, Hackney Council and campaigners fr…Read more…
Lebanese teachers join public sector strike
Teachers in Lebanon joined a strike across the public sector yesterday, fighting for decent pay.Read more…
Government fails end of term health and safety report.
The Government has published a “report book” on its reform of health and safety legislation over the past five years. It proudly boasts that it has reduced the number of regulations by 50%, and…Read more…
Give me a break! Annual leave in a nutshell
Now the clocks have gone forward, and we’re officially in British Summer Time, you might be starting to think about booking a well-earned holiday. Read on to help ensure your plans for a getaway fly….Read more…
“Benefits Cheats”? But they’re within the rules.
JIM MURPHY, MP, Labour’s leader in Scotland, first made his name twenty years ago as leader of the National Union of Students, reversing the union’s opposition to the abolition of grants and…Read more…
G1? – Tip of the iceberg
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