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Why we are striking from a Library worker
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Barnet Council workers on 48 hour strike over outsourcing threat.
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e NEWS 28 May strike update and office moves
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Personal Injury Settlements March 2015
For March 2015, Unison members in the West Midlands Region received £246,000 in compensation payments for Personal Injury Claims. Members of this branch received £19,000. If you have a potential personal injury claim, please contact Unison Direct on 0800 0857 … Continue reading →Read more…
Syriza’s struggle is our struggle
The Greek Syriza government is still locked in crisis negotiations with ‘the group formerly known as the Troika’ (the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission) over releasing…Read more…
Lyn Brown MP – All-members meeting this Thursday evening – hope to see you there
This has been sent to all West Ham Labour Party members by Lyn.
“Firstly, I want to say a huge thank you for all your hard work and dedication during the General Election campaign. I am truly grateful for the support you have shown me and our party. It…Read more…
Why Coke, VISA, McDonalds, Adidas, Kia & Hyundai are nothing more than human rights abusers
I have just sent this email below to the CEO’s of human rights abusers – Coke, VISA, McDonalds, Adidas, Kia & Hyundai.
The TV news tonight begins with the arrest and charges of FIFA officials with corruption. This is serious but the needless death…Read more…
The Common People (Remember this is what tories do)
There is huge anger tonight inside and outside Parliament about Cameron’s first full Tory Queen Speech. There are also bad tempered (but tiny) protests outside Downing Street and of course lots of noise on social media. People seem genuinely shocked.
Queen’s speech and Scotland briefing
See UNISON Scotland’s policy briefing ‘Queen’s Speech: UK government programme and Scotland’ at http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/briefings/b065_PolicyBrief_QueensSpeech.pdfRead more…
A Queen’s speech that divides the nation
Today’s Queen’s speech is motley collection of proposed bills that fails to address the big issues facing the UK. Far from being a plan for ‘working people’, it further concentrates power in the…Read more…
How you can support Barnet Council workers taking strike action.
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#QueensSpeech 2015: Immigration Bill will fuel undercutting and hostility
Today measures for a new Immigration Bill were announced in the Queen’s Speech. The Bill sets out a fundamentally contradictory position, first aired by David Cameron in a speech last week, that you can tackle exploitation of workers by taking their rights away. Helping bad bosses The Bill will…Read more…
A lesson from the past about the future of DOCAS
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/employers-end-union-dues-collection-deal-1456076.html
The link above is to a twenty two year old story about how (then) public sector employers, British Coal and British Rail, used the withdrawal of what was then ca…Read more…
Osborne’s economic failure leaves borrowing for 2014/15 £50bn higher than planned
Commenting on the publication (Friday) by the Office for National Statistics of the latest public sector borrowing figures, which show that the updated deficit for 2014/15 of £87.7bn was £50bn larger…Read more…
#QueensSpeech 2015: Referendum Bill raises yet more questions
The Queen’s Speech today was silent on the hugely important issue of the negotiating strategy the government intends to pursue ahead of the EU referendum, and few other questions were answered by the references to the Bill we expect to see published tomorrow. Speak softly and run like hell…Read more…
Tory ‘toothless’ hours law
A key coalition government measure came into force on Tuesday (May 26) – the banning of exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts. Now, employers cannot block workers who are on the…Read more…
Why take on trade unions ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks?
The TUC backs campaigns for green jobs and supports trade union efforts that green the workplace to good effect through energy saving schemes. Unions support investment in energy productivity because official data shows that the average rate of UK comm…Read more…
The trade agreement that threatens our safety.
Last year I wrote about the dangers to health and safety from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) where the European Commission and US Government want to reduce “barriers” to…Read more…
More Right to Buy – what will go wrong
Right to Buy likely to go wrong Worryingly the Queen’s Speech confirms that there will be a bill to extend the Right to Buy to tenants in Housing Associations. The TUC opposes this measure on two grounds; that the funding model of housing associations would be seriously damaged by such a…Read more…