So, Labour is back in the game of public ownership. Various targets are now talked about for potential nationalisation, or something like it, including rail, the Royal Mail and utility companies. One of the interesting things about Labour’s discussion …Read more…
UK Budget fall out
I set out our immediate reaction to the UK Budget in Briefing 91 on Wednesday. In the light of day, the numbers are if anything slightly worse, although a real terms revenue cut of £199m, remains the…Read more…
#GlitchUK – Online violence & hate speech against women and girls
/ WHO WE AREFounded by Cllr Seyi Akiwowo, we are a organisation working to reduce online violence against women and girls (OVAWG) and online hate speech through advocacy, campaigning and training workshops.// WHAT WE BELIEVEWhen we look back on th…Read more…
Trust leads the way on high quality apprenticeships
Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust will today (Friday) become the first organisation in the country to sign up to UNISON’s apprenticeship charter. The charter ensures that apprenticeships…Read more…
Blog: A day to celebrate the remarkable work of all school support staff
Recently it was my pleasure to visit Lister Community School in Newham, East London and speak with support staff there. Like UNISON members across the country, they are having to do more with less…Read more…
UNISON LGPS Seminar – date change now January 10th 2018 UNISON Centre (& London CIV meeting)
(I will be chairing this meeting again. London UNISON LGPS will also be meeting on Monday 11 December in order to attend the public meeting of London CIV at London Councils building. We will have pre-meeting at venue nearby beforehand. Details to follo…Read more…
Blog: Hammond’s budget left public services gasping for air
The budget was another opportunity for Philip Hammond and Theresa May to show they had understood the anger caused by their government, and a nation’s fear of what impact their attacks are having on…Read more…
It’s all kicking off – footballers on racism, sport, and public services
A few famous faces showed up at UNISON head office recently, for an event on behalf of anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card.
The article It’s all kicking off – footballers on…Read more…
“How the housing crisis is affecting the sector’s own staff”
A harrowing and disturbing article by Inside Housing’s Jess McCabe. What happens when the workers who try and provide homes for the vulnerable are themselves living as homeless. What a sick society we live in. Employers must accept their responsibility…Read more…
Government has shifted on NHS pay, but there could still be a sting in the tail
NHS not out of the woods yet
The article Government has shifted on NHS pay, but there could still be a sting in the tail first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Good time’ Chancellor’s ‘bleak’ budget
Philip Hammond attempted to mask the Tories’ dismal economic record and lack of direction with jokes during his outline of the Budget today (November 22), even as he admitted official growth…Read more…
Tory failure continues
Certain phrases enter the political lexicon. Unemployment is a price worth paying – Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont. In office but not in power that too was Norman Lamont following his sacking…Read more…
Not ‘game changer’ we need
Today’s (November 22) budget is far from the ‘game-changer’ the country needs and will do little to ease the biggest squeeze in living standards the country has ever seen, Unite warned. …Read more…
Budget leaves public services “gasping for air”
There’s no actual money on the table
The article Budget leaves public services “gasping for air” first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Review: Aseff the Spy, Russian Terrorist and Police Stool, by Boris Ivanovich Nicolaevsky
History doesn’t get better than this. Nicolaevsky was one of the great socialist historians, author of a terrific biography of Karl Marx, and participant in the 1917 revolution in Russia. In…Read more…
COME TO PENTONVILLE 5 EVENT DECEMBER 1st
(Picture of former Newham Labour Councillor & Civic Mayor, Vic Turner after his release from prison)
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST 2017 18.00EAST HAM WORKING MEN’S CLUB2 BOLEYN ROAD * LONDON E6…Read more…
‘Vulture mentality’
Unite is warning members to be aware of dodgy financial advisers targeting Port Talbot steelworkers under rules introduced in 2015 that allow pensions to be taken out as a lump sum. The…Read more…
Enough is enough, Hammond
Gaffe-prone chancellor Philip Hammond has been urged to give public sector workers, battered by pay austerity since 2010, a generous pay rise in Wednesday’s budget. “Since the Tories came to…Read more…
Hammond’s choice
Driverless cars are on Philip Hammond’s mind. In tomorrow’s budget the Chancellor will announce changes designed to make testing the new technology easier on British roads. Perhaps he…Read more…
Have your say on pension changes
UNISON is encouraging members to have their say on pension changes
The article Have your say on pension changes first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…