CLASS, the labour movement think tank, has published the first in a series of general election guides. Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
This timely…Read more…
Night Workers by Helen Dunmore
All you who are awake in the dark of the night,
all you companions of the one lit window
in the knuckled-down row of sleeping houses,
all you who think nothing of the midnight hour
but by…Read more…
UNISON Housing Association AGM: Branch Secretary report 2014
On Tuesday next week it is my branch AGM at GLA City Hall. At the meeting the Annual Report for 2014 will be tabled (see here).
I have been re-elected unopposed again as Branch secretary for 2015/2016 and below is my contribution to the 2014 annual re…Read more…
Barnet Council to vote on NOT paying London Living Wage
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Ryde Academy & ‘Lazy Teachers’
– by Mat Thomas To listen to the Labour Party leadership the other day talking about getting good teachers and some of the complaints made by Conservatives one would think that the Country, let alone…Read more…
Aberdeenshire cuts impact ‘devastating’ says UNISON
Aberdeenshire UNISON has warned that the council’s planned cuts over the next five years will hit jobs and services hard and will continue to have a devastating impact on the quality of life in Aberdeenshire, especially for our most vulnerable.
The branch has called on Aberdeenshire councillors to minimise job losses and to keep their commitment to no compulsory redundancies and to maintainRead more…
UNISON wins Comhairle living wage backdating
UNISON’s Western Isles Local Government Branch has welcomed the Comhairle’s recent agreement to backdate payment of the National Living Wage to its lowest-earning staff to April 2013.
Back in November the Comhairle, following an intensive campaign by UNISON, agreed to pay the Living Wage for 2014 exclusive of Distant Islands Allowance. However, the council disagreed with the union over itsRead more…
“tax avoidance, everyone does it”
Brilliant. Tories justifying tax avoidance by rich. Hat tip Wrexham for Labour Facebook. Read more…
Ed & Education, Education, Education
On Thursday lunchtime I went to see Labour leader Ed Miliband at a policy launch on Education which took place at Haverstock school in Camden, North London. This state run comprehensive was where Ed and his brother David were educated.
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What kind of laws do we want? A report of an IER Conference
13 February 2015
By Roger Jeary, IER Blogger
The Institute’s conference on 11th February saw a fine array of trade union and political leaders alongside legal experts and academics debate the…Read more…
UNISON intervention ensures 27 jobs retained at Stornoway call-handling centre
Friday 13 February 2015
UNISON, the public-sector trade union, has helped to ensure the retention of 27 jobs at the Consumer Advice Direct (CAD) call-handling centre in Stornoway after members were issued with redundancy notices early in the New Year.
Flora Somerville, UNISON Branch Organiser, met recently with local politicians and senior management from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) – whichRead more…
We should worry if excessively low inflation persists
CPI Inflation is currently at its at the lowest level since this measure of inflation began (1996). This is wrongly being spun as purely good news. Here’s what the bank of England actually says about undershooting its inflation target (my capitals) “The inflation target of 2% is expressed in terms…Read more…
Household debt to grow nearly three times faster than wages under Osborne’s plans, says TUC
12 February 2015 New analysis published today (Thursday) by the TUC finds that the official growth forecasts based on George Osborne’s economic plans are dependent on household debt growing much…Read more…
Digital Dark Age ?
Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’ By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Vint Cerf, a “father of the internet”, says he is worried that all the…Read more…
Energy efficiency: Small businesses certainly don’t have money to burn
The UK’s largest small business organisation, the UK Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), is campaigning and lobbying to help small and microbusinesses to become more energy efficient. It’s an organisation with over 200,000 businesses and is concerned to help them to reduce emissions, become low…Read more…
Join us 1 pm Trafalgar Square 15 February – Let Greece breathe
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Support for PCS
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RATES OF PAY & CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2014 – SOUTH WEST TRAINS
TO ALL BRANCHES WITH SOUTH WEST TRAINS MEMBERS 12th February 2015 Dear Colleagues, RATES OF PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2014- SOUTH WEST TRAINS You will be aware members rejected of both options previously offered…Read more…
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TO ALL BRANCHES WITH SOUTH WEST TRAINS MEMBERS
12th February 2015
Dear Colleagues,
RATES OF PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 2014- SOUTH WEST TRAINS
You will be aware members rejected of both…Read more…
Global Divestment Day
If we are to save the planet for future generations, it’s time to take action against the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry.
13th-14th February is Global Divestment Day. Thousands of…Read more…