The collage is from recent campaign sessions in Forest Gate North (West Ham CLP). The Labour vote for Sadiq Khan in the ward is pretty overwhelming. It is also amazing how many Party members there are nowadays. Every street it seems has 2 or 3 me…Read more…
TUC joins May Day protests for jailed Iranian teachers
The TUC has supported a letter this 1 May calling on the Iranian government to release two Iranian teacher union leaders and scores of other jailed trade unionists as part of a general call “to…Read more…
“Stop the Housing Bill” Lobby tomorrow Tuesday 3rd May
I will be at the lobby tomorrow evening after 5pm (Tuesday 3rd May).
From UNISON press release “The Housing and Planning Bill is nearing its conclusion in Parliament, it returns to the Commons on 3 May, when it will be debated by MPs.
This is a cruci…Read more…
#ISDS: Government position shows ideology trumps evidence
We’re often told that Governments are committed to ‘evidence-based policy making’, although it often seems that it’s the other way round. Now we see, starkly revealed, how far the UK government’s trade policy is based far more on ideology than evidence. A Freedom of…Read more…
Pay all care workers living wage, says UNISON
UNISON is calling on all employers to pay the living wage to care workers and all councils to adopt UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter in its Social care manifesto for Scotland to improve working conditions for some of the worst paid public workers in Scotland.
UNISON manifesto Social Care in Scotland is launched today (Monday 2 May) (See on website)
Improving the quality of care means seriouslyRead more…
A day to reflect upon the future of our movement
We celebrate a movement that fought for democracy and the rights we enjoy at home and in the workplace, decent education and changed our country into a fairer and more decent place.
The article A…Read more…
The Emperor has no clothes. DC Pensions
From Professional Pensions “John Gray looks at whether current contribution levels across DB and DC are adequate.As well as being an employee representative on a pension board I am also a UNISON trade union branch secretary with members in more than 14…Read more…
Contrived. Corrupt. Corrosive
Ken Livingstone’s ego was always going to be his (and arguably Corbyn’s) undoing. But the contrived charges of anti-Semitism would have been landed on the Corbynistas regardless of whoever it was…Read more…
Mary Locke for Bournvill Ward, May 5 2016
This picture collage is from last Saturday, when I went to Birmingham to support my UNISON NEC colleague, Mary Locke, who is standing to be a Labour Councillor in Bournville ward, Birmingham next Thursday 5 May.
Mary would make a fantastic Councillor…Read more…
Cynicism as ideology? A lecture to the workers from their employees…
http://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/local-government-pay-disarray
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Marxist-Leninist) will know that your blogger has – over the years – paid unreasonable attention to the meanderings of a bizarre xenophobic sect on t…Read more…
Fracking and the election debate
Fracking has probably been the only energy issue to surface in the Scottish Parliament election campaign. The Tories support it, Labour oppose it, and the SNP are sceptical, but not ruling it out.As…Read more…
“London Mayoral election – a week till polling day” – West Ham Campaign plan
“If you have any time over the next week you could ensure we get London a Labour Mayor. And if you can join us on 5 May please let us know. It’s actually quite fun…. (honest…)
Shop at the Co-op?
If you’ve received a ballot paper please Vote Y…Read more…
UNISON and the Trade Union Bill – further concessions
https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2016/04/unison-welcomes-governments-change-of-heart-on-trade-union-bill-proposals/ Following on from the Government climbing down from its plan to ban deduction of union subscriptions from salaries in the public sector, the further concessions…Read more…
5 reasons why the PCC elections really matter
There’s been far too little coverage so far of one of the most important set of elections also taking place next week – the police and crime commissioner (PCC) elections in England and Wales
The…Read more…
No to the Imposition of a Contract on the Junior Doctors!
Health Care Is a Right! For an NHS Based on Fulfilling this Right! Junior Doctors carried out full walkouts on 26 and 27 April in England in their fight to oppose the govenment’s plan to impose…Read more…
No to EU Austerity!
No to EU Austerity! Working People Themselves Must Set the Agenda The EU Referendum campaign officially began on April 15 and the voting in the Referendum itself takes place on June 23. Despite this,…Read more…
Continued Opposition to the Government’s Anti-Social Devolution Act
Photo: Steve Boneham The Cities and Local Government Devolution Act received the Royal Assent on January 28. The Act promises election of mayors for “Combined Authorities”, as well as…Read more…
A UK without manufacturing
Economics professor Patrick Minford came out yesterday (April 28) to say that “if we left the EU, it seems that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing.” But, Minford – who was a major…Read more…
Stagecoach asked to ‘think again’
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will express concern at a meeting next week about the proposed closure of the Stagecoach bus depot in Dundee. Bosses at the bus company have advised union…Read more…
UNISON marks International Workers’ Memorial Day
Workers around the globe call for ‘strong laws, strong enforcement, strong unions’
The article UNISON marks International Workers’ Memorial Day first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…