Could YOU be one of our Christmas stars on film? We’re looking for film clips of members
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Can we afford a shorter working week? Microsoft think so
Can we afford a four-day week? Microsoft certainly think so. This week, the tech giant announced that a four-day week trial in their Japanese office had boosted productivity by 40 per cent.Read more…
Soaring insolvency rates the latest symptom of Britain’s broken economy
Individual insolvencies have drastically risen over the past year as the UK’s household debt crisis continues to grow.Read more…
A tsunami of work-related stress threatens to engulf working people
Today is National Stress Awareness Day. It’s an opportunity to think about the issue of work-related stress and its underlying causes, how we can help individual workers and businesses deal with it,…Read more…
UK economy has fallen into relegation zone of OECD countries since 2017 election
The government cannot hide from the dismal performance of the economy on its watch – and that’s against the very low bar of the austerity decade.Read more…
Critical incident shows hospitals are “creaking at the seams”, says UNISON
Nottingham emergency highlights pressures across the NHS
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Conservatives putting everything up for grabs on NHS, says UNISON
Briefing lays bare Tory thinking
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Drug and alcohol workers take pay fight to Addaction’s London HQ
Drug and alcohol support workers will be demonstrating outside the headquarters of employer Addaction today (Wednesday), over broken pay promises, says UNISON. Fifteen employees from Leigh and Wigan…Read more…
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish socialist who has won the heart of America’s Muslims
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. In recent months, Bernie Sanders has become an enormously popular politician among Muslim Americans. He was one of only two Democratic…Read more…
Retirement meal for UNISON Labour Movement Hero Keith Birch
This evening we had a meal to celebrate and thank our UNISON Labour Link National Secretary, Keith Birch, upon his retirement. Keith also represented UNISON on the Labour Party NEC for many years.
Keith is a true Labour Movement hero who has done his …Read more…
West Ham Labour General Election Campaign Grid: 5.11.19
Join us in our General Election Campaign to win a Labour government on Dec 12th and to get Lyn Brown re-elected as our West Ham MP.Our main focus will be to arrange trips to marginal seats. Some of these will be won or lost by a handful of vo…Read more…
HCPC fee rethink shows effectiveness of campaign
Review must back more modest increase
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Council workers protest about low pay prior to pay talks
Proper funding for local authorities is needed in order to protect jobs, pay staff properly.
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Northants council workers to get pay rise
Promised 4% increase in April 2020 will be first pay rise in three years for staff at crisis council
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Government pushes ahead with transfer of Welsh probation staff on 1 December
UNISON had called for transfer to be delayed until February while negotiations on terms and conditions continue
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After a decade of austerity, higher public spending is long overdue
Glib narratives about 1970s levels of public spending are a distraction – more government investment is the best way to deliver for working class families.Read more…
London Labour Unions General Election mobilisation event at UNISON centre
This evening I Chaired a meeting of London Labour Union organisers at the UNISON centre in Euston. It had originally been intended to be a trade union consultation on the London Mayoral manifesto for May 2020. However, following the calling of the gene…Read more…
Labour and Capital
It’s election time. I’ll have a look through party manifestos when they’re out to pull together policy commitments that are relevant to this blog. In the meantime, here are a few rehashed thoughts about what I’d like to see as a Left platform.
1. Empl…Read more…
NHS is ‘unsafe’ in hands of Conservatives, says UNISON
Government policies like scrapping student nursing bursaries have been a disaster. The NHS is clearly unsafe in their hands
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Police staff vote for pay rise
Staff in England and Wales give 93% ‘yes’ vote for 2.5% pay rise – or 3.1% for those on the lowest rate
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