As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday this year, the challenges facing it are unprecedented – provision is drowning under the weight of chronic underfunding just when the health service needs it…Read more…
Nurses are working over 200 hours extra per year in unpaid overtime to stop NHS collapsing
New analysis shows overstretched nurses and others are putting in £1.6bn worth of extra work By Andrew Gregory 20:34, 28 JAN 2018 NHS staff are putting in £1.6billion worth of unpaid overtime every…Read more…
Unite fights for future of work
Nearly a third of jobs in some northern towns and cities could be replaced by technology by 2030, new research has found. The analysis, which predicts up to a fifth of jobs in urban areas are…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn interview with Andrew Marr:
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‘Support forces for peace’ plea
Unite is outraged at the Turkish military attacks on the Kurdish population and security forces of Afrin, Syria – as yesterday (January 29) Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, told foreign…Read more…
UK NHS faces further attacks with introduction of “accountable care organisations”
By Jean Shaoul WSWS As the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS) approaches, Theresa May’s Conservative government is starving the NHS of cash, while its plans for the dismantling and…Read more…
Newham Mayoral candidate admits he will lose “trigger”
A very interesting evening tonight. The first rerun Newham Labour Mayoral trigger ballot took place at West Ham Ward. To the surprise of the 25 members who turned up (but not to me since it had been widely leaked) the incumbent, Sir Robin Wales, …Read more…
3M pay strike
Workers at dust mask and respirator maker 3M, based in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, will begin strike action next month in a pay dispute. The workers, who are members of Unite, will…Read more…
Carillion pensions scandal
Carillion’s pensions blackhole is at least £990m, the firm’s former chair of trustees has revealed – nearly twice previously thought. Following the revelation, Unite called for all possible…Read more…
How UNISON has helped beat the January blues
The union kicked off 2018 with a month of individual successes, stirring calls to action and an ingenious new campaign. And that was just in January. Here’s our ‘hi 5’ highlights
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‘Elated’
Tireless union campaigning has paid off, as Unite and its Bombardier members celebrated a massive victory at the weekend after US trade authorities ruled against crippling tariffs on imports of the…Read more…
Theses on Health and Education:
– by Kenneth Knapman January 28th, 2018 That Health and Education are key Necessities in the modern categories of social programmes (and there are other necessities). That they are governed by…Read more…
WW2: British Betrayal
British Betrayal of Its Own Convoys Carrying Supplies to Help the Soviets – Nikolay Starikov – The following is excerpted from the book Proxy Wars (St. Petersburg, 2017) by Russian…Read more…
End-of-year accounts for 2017 – branch audits
Information for honorary branch auditors from UNISON head of audit John Nagle
The article End-of-year accounts for 2017 – branch audits first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unison City of Stoke on Trent Local Government Branch 2018-01-29 10:42:11
Health & Safety Spot Light. Strain on employees at work is seen to be a major cause of mental health issues, a government-commissioned report shows that mental health is costing the UK economy almost £100 billion a year and figures … Continue…Read more…
The Iranian regime is playing cat and mouse with trade unionists – take action
The struggle for trade union rights in Iran is being pursued not only by the workers of Iran themselves, but trade unionists around the world.Read more…
Getting fit with Labour (apart from eating chocolate cake)
Picture collage from yesterday’s Labour campaign session in my ward, West Ham, with our MP, Lyn Brown (and Cara, her infamous Labour attack dog).
West Ham ward and the wider West Ham CLP are “safe” Labour seats but it is humbling how much support we g…Read more…
How seriously do hedge funds take the Stewardship Code?
Just stumbled on this. Try Googling “generally supports the objectives that underlie the Code” and “consistent approach”. Someone somewhere drafted this text…
Shorting Carillion and funding the Tories at the same time
Councils need government grant to fund large scale council house building programme
This is an article published on the Labour Briefing website Raising the ‘borrowing cap’ is not a solution to the council housing shortage There has been much talk of late about councils being able to “ borrow to build” new council housing. …Read more…