16 January 2015
By Linda Kaucher
It is not just TTIP, across the board the EU is bowing to business pressure to do away with ‘burdensome’ regulation – regulation that tends to…Read more…
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Saving Our Safety Net Fact of the Week: Most Remploy workers never got another job
In 2012 the government closed down the subsidy for the disabled workers in more than fifty Remploy factories around the country. By September 2013 all but three had closed; the GMB estimates that 2,700 workers lost their jobs. Some of those weren’t disabled; the House of Commons library estimates…Read more…
Pooled funds, voting and fiduciary duty
As some people will be aware, there is a considerable degree of frustration amongst some asset owners in the UK that they are unable to vote how they want when investing through pooled funds. There isn’t any technical reason why this can’t happen, some…Read more…
Personal Injuries, Workers Memorial Day & Bite Sized Intro to Health and Safety at Work
The picture is from a course I helped run last year for my UNISON branch on Health and Safety. It was organised by our Outreach Worker, Andy Robinson and the guest speaker was Personal Injury lawyer from Thompsons Shamoona Sheikh (right of photo).
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UNISON support for PCS – now is the time!
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Regular readers (Sid and Doris Blogger) will know that I am never wrong.
Sometimes, however, in my eagerness to share my views I can omit context as I may have do…Read more…
Let’s not perpetrate a fraud upon members involved in the single fraud investigation service transfer!
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The Pension Deficit – Outsourcing
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Support UNISON Your Choice Barnet Care Workers strike action video
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Care Workers to take strike action 22nd & 23rd January 2015.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Care Workers to take strike action 22nd & 23rd January 2015.
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Why Your Choice care workers are taking strike action
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Employers named and shamed for not paying – a warning for retail.
The government has today named another 37 employers who have failed to pay the proper minimum wage. Between them they owed £177,000 to their workers* This brings the total named this year to 92. It is good to see those who don’t meet the legal minimum requirement being publicly named in this…Read more…
YOUR CHOICE BARNET CARE WORKERS – 9 Point Flyer
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn UNISON members working for Your Choice Barnet (YCB) have just announced their next strike dates as being 22nd and 23rd January. In addition the workers…Read more…
Fracking – over to you!
Some astute politics by Labour and Tom Greatrex MP puts decisions on fracking very firmly in the Scottish Government’s court.
The Smith Agreement proposes the devolution of licences for gas…Read more…
Health & Social Care mergers – Knowledge is Power
My article on the issues and problems that potentially lie ahead for activists and campaigners trying to extract information from the new merged structures providing health and social care in…Read more…
Union offers safety advice to staff following hospital sexual assaults
Thursday 15 January 2015
NHS union UNISON Scotland is advising staff to be more vigilant than normal after two separate incidents of sexual assault at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) in recent weeks.
The union has also contacted employers demanding that specific advice about personal safety and relevant details are shared with local staff to ensure that they are aware of the issue and canRead more…
Stop union busting at the heart of government
Ministers have launched a campaign of union busting at the very heart of government, the UK civil service.Read more…
Isle of Wight Enterprise Zone
Isle of Wight Enterprise Zone discussed with Local Government minister By A County Press reporter Thursday, January 15, 2015 EFFORTS have been made to secure more Government support for the Isle of…Read more…
Charlie Hebdo – the view from NUJ Paris
Two days after the murderous attack at the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, (on Wednesday January 7,) a dignified ceremony took place involving representatives of international journalist…Read more…
Social Care workers Commission – 28 January 2015
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Barnet UNISON has organised Social Care Workers Commission on 28 January 2015 at 6.30, Committee Room 10, House Of Commons.
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