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A great picture (but a little fuzzy) from last weeks branch meeting when we had 22 members (and 2 young pioneers) attend.
It was Cllr John Whitworth’s turn to give his report to the branch (we take it in turns. Last month I gave a report and next mont…Read more…
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Help us celebrate our local services and the people who deliver them!
Local government workers are true local champions. Working as a team, both on
the frontline and ‘behind the scenes’, they encourage our communities to
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It’s been a few years since I read in depth about reward and motivation. I basically got to the point where I think most performance-related pay is junk, as are most of the ‘reforms’ advocated, because there is little attempt to engage with the psychol…Read more…
Yesterday Cllr Shaban Mohammed and I went to visit a factory and warehouse operated by Ardmore Group in Enfield. We were invited to attend following a presentation I had heard on how factory built modular housing could help Newham Council tackle our ho…Read more…
By Professor David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at Birmingham Business School at University of Birmingham, Visiting Professor at Centre for Brexit Studies and Senior Fellow at UK in a…Read more…
Perhaps I’m grasping at straws, but I can’t shake the feeling that attitudes toward trade unions are shifting amongst some key groups, and that this might point to a more hopeful future.
In politics the direction of travel is most clear. Obviously Lab…Read more…
Before she joined the SOE as a secret agent and was sent to occupied France, she worked with the mother of one of my branch UNISON stewards in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as a Battle of Britain wireless operator
Never forget.
This brave woma…Read more…
I collected the latest Labour Mayoral and Assembly election leaflets this afternoon for distribution by Party members in Forest Gate North and West Ham wards. Until the General Election is actually declared (and some people are arguing that it should a…Read more…
Conference calls for investment in police staff to match proposals for more officers
The article But what about us? ask UNISON police staff first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Conference calls for return to national bargaining in reunited probation service
The article One service, pay scale and bargaining structure first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Hundreds of Thomas Cook workers were offered hope as they flocked to a massive jobs fair held at Manchester Airport on Thursday (October 3). The fair, spearheaded by the Greater Manchester…Read more…
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The article Members only: Update course available for job evaluation leads accredited to deliver training locally in 2004/2005…Read more…
Triumphant Harland and Wolff staff on Thursday (October 3) walked back into work at Belfast’s historic shipyard after a nine week occupation that saved the firm. The workers, who garnered…Read more…
UNISON has concerns about a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) consultation on a new set of proposals to introduce pension flexibilities for senior clinicians. UNISON is concerned about a…Read more…
Forcing workers could be counter-productive
The article Healthcare staff should be encouraged rather than coerced into flu jab first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Our union has always been at the forefront of fighting the hatred of the far right in our communities – that’s why we’re proud supporters of HOPE not hate. So I’m delighted to have become a patron of…Read more…
Social care staff saw the union de-recognised after PossAbilities won the contract earlier this year
The article Outsourced North West workers win statutory recognition first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Next May London faces important elections for the Mayor of London and Lon Assembly. As a world city and a Labour city London has led the way in electing a Muslim Mayor. Sadiq Khan has spared no effort in shaping London for the better, by promoting prog…Read more…
This afternoon I was interviewed live on “Revive FM 94.0” by my radio host colleague, Shaban Mohammed & community activist, Armond Dean on Newham Council Housing Policies.
It was a really good discussion on the housing crisis in Newham and what we…Read more…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates will face a ‘poverty pay’ protest when he gives the Hawking Fellowship lecture in Cambridge on Monday (October 7) over his shareholding in a US sanitation company at the…Read more…