Developing better economic and employment policies for the future depends critically on distinguishing between changes that are temporary and cyclical and those which are long term and structural. In a recent report for the TUC, Tracking the Labour Mar…Read more…
TUC March and Rally Manchester – #4octdemo
This picture is of UNISON members from London Ambulance Service (LAS) carrying our regional banner at the TUC demo today at Manchester.
Second from left is UNISON Vice President, Eric Roberts, who is the branch secretary of LAS.
This was a great day…Read more…
Manchester march:
Mass protest at Tory conference Thousands of people have attended an anti-austerity protest near the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester. Organisers the TUC said the rally was …Read more…
Naqtional march and rally:
UNISON refusing to face the future?
Supporters of the campaign to re-elect UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis are busily celebrating the ability of his campaign to engineer nominations from Regional Councils and National Committees.
They are studiously ignoring the fact that support for his campaign at branch level is…Read more…
TUC Congress 2015: The Time Is Now!
The TUC held its 147th Congress from September 13-16 in Brighton. Many important issues were discussed: problems facing society, the organised workers’ movement, health and education, the…Read more…
Build the Movement against the Anti-Social Offensive:
The week of action against the Conservative anti-social offensive, with the October 4 demonstration as its centrepiece, is evidence that the scale and intensity of the movement against the…Read more…
“We’ll fight the Tories every inch of the way” – O’Grady’s rallying call to TUC demo
TUC general secretary accuses government of wanting to turn back the clock to Victorian times over workers’ rightsRead more…
Businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks:
Tax and spending The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks Guardian’s analysis reveals that hidden subsidies, direct grants and tax breaks to big business amount to £3,500…Read more…
Denis Healey: the Labour Giant who did the dirty work for socialism
I was at home today recovering still from this weeks’ Labour Party conference, when I saw on the news that Denis Healey had died this morning in his sleep aged 98.
Which is a good age by any standards, so some of the reporting I have seen that his dea…Read more…
Screening of Pride: Ruskin College, 16th Oct @ 6pm
Colleagues,
To mark the end of the series of events at Ruskin which have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miner’s strike, I’ve organised a screening of the hit film Pride for 16th October. The film unpicks the important role of the suppo…Read more…
Housing Associations capitulate over ‘right to buy’
When the idea of the extension of ‘right to buy’ to housing associations was first floated housing association representative, including David Orr, head of the National Housing Federation (the ‘trade organisation’ of housing associations) were talking of fighting the…Read more…
Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald: My Plea To Save SSI Redcar
As As the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough with many, many thousands of constituents devastated by the SSI collapse, I plead with the Government to consider my analysis. Now that the…Read more…
10,900 working families in West Ham to lose out in Tory tax credit “snatch and grab” – 5.2 Million children affected Nationally
A horrifying report is released today by UNISON on the impact of the Government cuts in Tax credits next April. The rise in the minimum wage will not offset these cuts.
Working families and their children who already find it a struggle to survive are about to lose as much as £60 per week. This is…Read more…
Unite Cab Driver Mike Hedges on Uber “We want a level playing field”
WIN! National Gallery strikers return to work on Monday
Sacked rep reinstated and jobs protected after 100-day PCS strikeRead more…
TUC March and Rally Manchester – Sunday October 4
Early start tomorrow morning (Sunday) to take the train to Manchester for March & Rally. I will be with the UNISON Greater London Regional banner. “No to Austerity – Yes to Workers’ Rights
National rally and march on the Tory conference
As the Conservative Party Conference meets…Read more…
Government’s tax credit snatch and grab will hit more than 2.7m working households across the UK
Tax credit cuts will leave millions of families with 5.2 million children worse off says UNISON research published today
The article Government’s tax credit snatch and grab will hit more than 2.7m…Read more…
Nominate Dave Prentis to be our UNISON General Secretary
Last week my UNISON branch Executive Committee voted to support the nomination of Dave Prentis as our next General Secretary.
This week Greater London UNISON Regional Committee voted the same.
Yesterday our National UNISON Community (Housing Associ…Read more…
TU Bill: CoSLA’s pledge to defy and UNISON Scotland video
As we gear up to the Manchester Rally, UNISON Scotland has welcomed the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) announcement on 28 September: “Scotland’s Councils have come out in force today to stand shoulder to shoulder with their trade union colleagues against the UK Government’s Trade Union Bill.” Earlier Glasgow, Edinburgh and Renfrewshire councils voted not to co-operate withRead more…