http://www.unison.org.uk/news/probation-strike-action-suspendedI was going to blog a message of solidarity to our members of UNISON in the probation service who were to have been taking strike action as part of their pay dispute on Thursday.
Instead I’…Read more…
Necessity to Organise against Government’s Proposed Anti-Trade Union Legislation:
The Queen’s speech threatened that the government would “bring forward legislation to reform trade unions and to protect essential public services against strikes”. This has posed the question…Read more…
National Gallery Struggle:
The Fight against Privatisation and for the Right to Speak Out and Organise Candy UdwinOn Saturday May 30, Trafalgar Square was filled with thousands of people who came to support the workers at the…Read more…
Graduates’ pay still lower than seven years ago
This morning the government released the quarterly Graduate Labour Market Statistics for England, which allow us to look at post-graduate, graduate and non-graduate employment rates and salaries since 2006. You wouldn’t know it from the government’s spin, but graduate pay has been slipping for two…Read more…
Delivering leisure is no fun, says UNISON
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Surrey buses: strike action suspended
Over 100 bus workers working for Abellio Surrey have suspended strike action following a breakthrough in talks at the conciliation service Acas, Unite announced today (June 9). The drivers had…Read more…
Update: Vital TTIP vote postponed
UPDATE [09/06, 16:23]: The European Parliament debate and vote has been postponed due to more than 200 amendments being tabled. Campaigners have said this indicates that mounting public pressure…Read more…
G7 starts to address workplace safety
Although most of the publicity around the G7 Summit in Germany has been around the relationship with Russia and the problems in the Middle East, there have been a lot of other discussions taking…Read more…
Paying for others’ mistakes
The announcement by HSBC that up to 8,000 UK jobs are to be cut from the bank by 2017, is the latest example of the workforce being punished for the misconduct of senior and investment bankers says…Read more…
The fight for workers’ rights knows no borders
Playfair Qatar is the British TUC’s contribution to the global campaign seeking better lives and internationally recognized – properly enforced – workers’ rights for Qatar’s desperate migrant…Read more…
Re-elected as UNISON National Executive Member
I found out this morning that I had been re-elected for a third term to the UNISON National Executive Committee (which is the UNISON Parliament of our 1.3 million members which runs the union between our National delegate conferences).
Many, many than…Read more…
#TTIP: What MEPs will be voting on this Wednesday
This Wednesday, the European Parliament will vote on what message to send to the negotiators of the EU-US trade and investment deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). They won’t (yet) be voting on whether to accept the deal, partly because the vast bulk of it…Read more…
UNISON asks Barnet Council to postpone privatisation talks
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#TTIP could be years away yet, but MEPs can strike a crucial early blow this Wednesday
The controversial TTIP trade deal between the USA and the European Union is being debated in the European Parliament on Wednesday.Read more…
More unnecessary spending cuts
Osborne’s latest budget announcement is driven more by his ideological desire to cut the state than any concern for deficit reduction.
The UK government has decided to cut a further…Read more…
Honour your agreements
Unite confirmed today (June 8) that they will be entering into talks at the conciliation service Acas with bus company Abellio Surrey in a bid to avert strike action in a dispute over terms and…Read more…
Breaking: steel strike on
Steel unions have agreed Monday, June 22, as the date for strike action at Tata Steel in their ongoing dispute over pensions. The strike action will be preceded by action short of strike action…Read more…
Four things that the UNISON NEC election results tell us
What do the results of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) election tell us?
First, that we had 1.24 million full members at the point that the extract for the ballot was taken from the membership system. This corresponds pretty closely to the 1.25 million members in our last submission to…Read more…
‘On the level with asbestos’
Unite has blown the lid off the dangers cabin crew members face being exposed to toxic air – a scandal that’s being compared to asbestos exposure. This morning (June 8) on the Victoria…Read more…
Allowing students to find their passion changes everything
Students at Springwell Learning Community experience a personalised and engaging curriculum that succeeds in both promoting a love of literature and development of empathy and social understanding….Read more…