One of the delegates has produced a most interesting report. Topics include caucus meetings, Motion 38 – Unison’s position on sex work with particular interest on LGBT and international sex workers and the mental health of young LGBT people. It’s … Continue reading →Read more…
How teachers can use learners’ errors to develop their accuracy with language through a classroom activity
As part of ATL’s Union Learning Fund project, ATL Midlands have organized their first English and maths week. This week we’ll feature three blogs from Joanne Miles about embedding…Read more…
Boleyn by-election – on the knocker on a windy tuesday
This evening I was with the Labour candidate for the Newham Boleyn ward by election, Veronica Oakeshott and comrades from East and West Ham Labour Party. We met outside Upton Park station in East Ham.
It was windy (#StormBarney) but only a little wet….Read more…
UNISON has been failing for the past five years – it is time for a change
Much is made, by supporters of incumbent UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, of his experience and track record as reasons he should be supported. Their arguments are generally fairly light on evidence however.How should we judge the effectiveness …Read more…
Scotland welcomes refugees – message from International chair and secretary
As a plane of Syrian refugees is about to land in Glasgow today Sam Macartney, Chair of the International Committee and I wanted to tell you about what members of the International Committee heard from Robina Qureshi, Director of Positive Action in Housing on Saturday.
Robina advised us of the links her organisation had made with the Kempson family who live on the island of Lesvos in GreeceRead more…
International newsletter now online
Glenrothes to London – How are our pensions invested? To ensure success for the BDS movement (boycott disinvestment sanctions) against Israel; Sam Macartney urged trade unions and civil rights groups to find out where our pensions are being invested.
UNISON Joint International Seminar, Newcastle Upon Tyne A report by Tony Caleary / Hamid Rasheed
TTIP Commission Recognises ISDS is FundamentallyRead more…
Bad job
For more and more people, bullying does not simply end in the schoolyard – it continues, too, in the workplace. As part of National Anti-Bullying Week this week, the conciliation and…Read more…
Don’t let them destroy the BBC
Our BBC is under threat from massive cuts and the NUJ is joining with other BBC unions to make the public aware of what is happening and build a campaign to stop it.
In Brighton this Saturday…Read more…
History of the outsourcing of Schools Meals and Education & Skills services
For the past 18 months Barnet Council has prepared plans for the future of School Meals and Education & Skills.
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Episode 22: ‘What do we want?’
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week. …Read more…
Rock bottom deal?
Boasts by George Osborne that the £13bn sale of former Northern Rock mortgage loans have resulted in gains for the taxpayer are being questioned by industry experts with Unite calling for answers and…Read more…
Amazed Tourist took camera inside DPRK
Mail on line link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638213/Tourist-took-camera-inside-North-Korea-expected-really-really-sad-people-shocked-seemingly-ordinary-lives-citizens.html Read more…
The Killings in Paris:
Statement of RCPB(ML) on the Killings in Paris and Elsewhere The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) condemns in the strongest terms the murderous attacks carried out in Paris…Read more…
Workplace bullying of LGBT people remains unacceptably high – but we can challenge it
Are LGB and T people more likely to be bullied? The evidence is clear but seems to contradict studies of changing social attitudes. The figures for bullying on grounds of sexuality or gender identity are grim and they always have been. For decades the …Read more…
Nurse Mary Rodwell – Suffragette – Klled 17th November 1915 (Hospital Ship Anglia)
Suffragette and WW1
Nursing Heroine
Miss Mary Rodwell (Brockdish, Norfolk) was a member Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.). She was killed on the night of 17th November 1915 when the Hospital Ship Anglia was retu…Read more…
Junior Doctors 1975
Innigrants health – USA 1915
We know what would solve global inequality: so why isn’t anyone doing it?
I wrote yesterday about the outcome of the Turkish G20 summit, which got close to addressing the gathering economic storms of global recession, but fell short of the action needed. But one area where the G20 did indeed get things right was identifying inequality as one of the main things holding…Read more…
Opposing the Violence that has occurred in Paris:
The Trades Council categorically condemns the odious crimes committed in Paris, France on the afternoon of November 13. With an expression of solidarity and our deep sympathy with the ordinary…Read more…
G20 almost rises to the challenge of the next global recession
The G20 summit in Antalya, on Turkey’s southern, Mediterranean coast, ended today with a communique that almost rises to the challenge facing the global economy. The main headlines are about terrorism and the refugee crisis, hardly surprising given the events in Paris and Antalya’s…Read more…