13 August 2015
By John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network
Why did the vibrant social democratic traditions of Europe and North America collapse so swiftly in the face of the pervasive…Read more…
Overview & Scrunity “Call in” expenditure on Newham “Special Purpose Vehicle”
I was very pleased to hear this evening that members of Newham Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee had agreed to “call in” the Executive Mayor’s decision to spend up to £500,000 on developing a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV) for the Newham Staff Pension fund without agreement that it…Read more…
Tony Who?
Tony Blair has had the unique privilege of writing his own political obituary.
Such is his desperation to prevent the inexorable progress of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign that he seeks to deploy the authority he believes he still has (even if, as he puts it, “we hate him”).
Tony!We no longer…Read more…
RBS: justice for tax-payer call
Unite, Move Your Money and campaign group Sum of Us held a short demonstration outside the Treasury and delivered a petition calling on George Osborne to halt the sale of publicly owned shares in the…Read more…
Stop the lower standards ‘conveyer belt’
A pharmacy crisis about maintaining professional standards is looming, as cash-hungry universities accept a ‘conveyer belt’ of students, many of whom fail at the final hurdle. The Guild of…Read more…
Stop the fire sale
Campaigners from Unite and other groups gathered outside the Treasury this morning (August 12) to protest chancellor George Osborne’s knock-down sale of taxpayers’ stake in RBS. Last week…Read more…
Whipping Up Hysteria over Migrants for Self-Serving Ends
Fighting For the Rights Of All In recent weeks the mass media has been dominated by reports of thousands of “migrants” in Calais attempting to enter Britain. In response the Prime Minister, David…Read more…
Fragile recovery
The fragile nature of the so-called economic recovery, particularly outside London and the south east, has been highlighted by the latest rise in unemployment, Unite said today (August 12). …Read more…
Sixth-form colleges need funding protection, says UNISON
“Sixth form colleges need the same funding protection as schools,” says UNISON in the wake of a report from the Sixth Form College Association highlighting the scale of funding cuts
The article…Read more…
‘Permission to view’
Supermarket pharmacies are to get access to the records of millions of NHS patients for the first time this autumn amid concerns about confidentiality and the exploitation of the information for…Read more…
Salford college urged to consult community on cuts
Public meeting calls for local community to have the chance to consider proposals and suggest alternatives
The article Salford college urged to consult community on cuts first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The foundation stone
August 12, 2015 marks the 126th anniversary of the start of The Great Dock Strike of 1889. Now, Unite has published a free booklet on this historic event. Before 1889 trade union membership…Read more…
West Ham Ward welcome to our new Labour Party members
Picture from last Thursday with West Ham ward officers busy filling out names and addresses on welcome letters to new members. We then went out and hand delivered the letters speaking to the new members whenever possible.
The new members I spoke…Read more…
Tory war of attrition against Council housing
Just before the general election the Tories announced that they were going to extend ‘right to buy’ to Housing Associations and to force Councils to sell off so-called ‘high value’ Council homes to fund it. Not only will this mean that Councils will lose scarce housing stock…Read more…
Patient confidentiality at risk as millions of patient records are handed over to Capita, says UNISON
Millions of patients’ confidential medical records are to be passed to a private company, despite appeal from UNISON for secretary of state for health to reconsider his decision to award the £1bn…Read more…
Stop the tips outrage
As the media caught up with Pizza Express’ outrageous policy of charging it’s waiting staff an 8 per cent service charge on tips (August 10), Unite members demonstrated outside a Pizza Express…Read more…
EDF strike suspended
Two days of strike action by EDF Energy staff that would have affected the rollout of a Smart meter installation programme across London and southern and western England have been suspended for…Read more…
Claim your vote!
“Trade unions built the Labour Party,” columnist and author Owen Jones, who is also a committed trade union member, told UNITElive. That’s why, Jones believes, all Unite members should…Read more…
JLR: Safeguard our future plea
Unite welcomed Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) continued investment in the business, but today (August 11)warned against it being to the detriment of the UK workforce who had worked tirelessly to make the…Read more…
A complacency we’ve seen before?
https://www.unison.org.uk/news/general-secretary-blog/2015/08/docas-attack/
At the first meeting of the Development and Organisation (D&O) Committee of the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) after the General Election the Committee considered …Read more…