There’s been far too little coverage so far of one of the most important set of elections also taking place next week – the police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections in England and Wales
The…Read more…
No to the Imposition of a Contract on the Junior Doctors!
Health Care Is a Right! For an NHS Based on Fulfilling this Right! Junior Doctors carried out full walkouts on 26 and 27 April in England in their fight to oppose the govenment’s plan to impose…Read more…
No to EU Austerity!
No to EU Austerity! Working People Themselves Must Set the Agenda The EU Referendum campaign officially began on April 15 and the voting in the Referendum itself takes place on June 23. Despite this,…Read more…
Continued Opposition to the Government’s Anti-Social Devolution Act
Photo: Steve Boneham The Cities and Local Government Devolution Act received the Royal Assent on January 28. The Act promises election of mayors for “Combined Authorities”, as well as…Read more…
A UK without manufacturing
Economics professor Patrick Minford came out yesterday (April 28) to say that “if we left the EU, it seems that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing.” But, Minford – who was a major…Read more…
Stagecoach asked to ‘think again’
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will express concern at a meeting next week about the proposed closure of the Stagecoach bus depot in Dundee. Bosses at the bus company have advised union…Read more…
UNISON marks International Workers’ Memorial Day
Workers around the globe call for ‘strong laws, strong enforcement, strong unions’
The article UNISON marks International Workers’ Memorial Day first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Campaigning for LGBT equality in the workplace
On the face of it acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people has never been greater. The passing of legislation ensuring legal parity in marriage for lesbian and gay couples is an…Read more…
UNISON to consider national employer’s final pay offer 2016/17 for higher education
Employers also offer further joint work on gender pay and casualisation
The article UNISON to consider national employer’s final pay offer 2016/17 for higher education first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Free Ӧcalan
At the launch of the UK-based campaign to free imprisoned Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ӧcalan, on Monday night (April 25), a standing-room only crowd in the House of Commons heard international speakers…Read more…
UNISON sponsors Merthyr Rising Festival
Two branches join forces to celebrate Welsh role in trade union history
The article UNISON sponsors Merthyr Rising Festival first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
As relevant today as ever
The first ever Bob Tressell Festival was held on Merseyside yesterday (April 28). The date chosen to celebrate the life of the man who wrote the classic labour movement book The Ragged…Read more…
The Trade Union Bill – how we campaigned for key changes
This week the Trade Union Bill went back to the House of Commons. We didn’t manage to defeat the entire Bill but we did manage to remove several elements of it that would have irrevocably damaged the…Read more…
IFJ condemns Iraqi censorship
The decision to suspend Al Jazeera’s licence to operate is deeply prejudicial in a country that badly needs a free pressRead more…
Trade Union Bill: Stand up for union rights
This week saw the latest skirmish in the battle against the Trade Union Bill. Through cross-party working in Parliament and campaigning hard across the country, we have forced the Government into…Read more…
Special statement from UNISON Cymru Wales on ambulance tragedy
Fatal accident involving ambulance staff in North Wales has ‘devastated’ colleagues
The article Special statement from UNISON Cymru Wales on ambulance tragedy first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Safe workers, safe products
The chemical and pharmaceutical industry is the pride of UK manufacturing – it adds £15bn of value to the UK economy every year and is the largest manufacturing exporter with annual exports close to…Read more…
Health and safety: Another reason for staying in
Yesterday tens of thousands of trade unionists took part in activities to commemorate those who died through work. The theme of Workers Memorial Day was “strong laws, strong enforcement , strong…Read more…
Capitulation to pay cut signals end of national pay bargaining in local government?
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2016/04/unison-moves-accept-council-pay-deal
It would not have been wise to have blogged immediately about the abysmal outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Joint Council (NJC) Committee.
Even your blog…Read more…
The final solution on Sark
This article appears today in the Jewish Chronicle. One of the most shocking documents on display at Yad Vashem is a typed list prepared by Adolf Eichmann for the Wannsee conference held in January…Read more…