Last week, labour activists in Iran once again found themselves the target of persecution for exercising their legal and rightful trade union activities. The incidents include the reported arrest and…Read more…
How those who were too left to back Labour helped to ensure that the Tories got their majority…
The interests of the working class were served by those who voted Labour last Thursday, for all that our Party is dominated by those who won’t do enough to defend our interests (and that our trade unions are led by those who consistently refuse to do a…Read more…
Last Call for UNISON NEC Elections 2015…..
This election finishes 5pm Friday 15 May so there is still time to check your paperwork, find your postal ballot paper and vote.
I am standing for re-election as a National Executive Committee member for Community (Housing Associations …Read more…
Standing strong requires change
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/general-secretarys-blog/your-voice
Our General Secretary was right to affirm, in his post-election message, that UNISON must stand firm for our members in the face of the new Tory Government.
We face a double onslaught, in…Read more…
What next for organised labour?
Colleagues,
Without doubt the 2015 general election outcomes present organised labour with considerable short and long-term challenges.
Len McCluskey’s statement represents, I feel, an important state of preparedness in what will clearly be a d…Read more…
Westhammers Labour Victory 7 May 2015
This is the picture of the West Ham Labour Party election count team from 04.30 am this morning with our two successful candidates, Lyn Brown MP and Cllr Charlene McLean. This was at the Olympic Velopark.
Lyn was re-elected as our Member of Parliament…Read more…
Stop race to bottom call
The recovering price of oil should bring an immediate end to the oil and gas industry’s opportunistic campaign of job cuts and impositions to working conditions, Unite has said yesterday (May 7)….Read more…
Savage cull
German engineering giant Siemens announced yesterday (May 7) its plans to slash 4,500 jobs across the board – a further savage cull following their announcement in February that 7,800 posts would go….Read more…
Fighting Ebola with microscopes
Ebola – a disease that devastated West Africa last summer – is now a household name, as its viral tentacles spread rapidly from Guinea and then onwards to Sierra Leone and Liberia, leaving thousands…Read more…
We will make sure your voice is heard at Westminster
The general election is over and I just want to thank UNISON members, activists and staff for all they did on behalf of UNISON before and during the campaign.Read more…
What a mess
It’s a lot worse than I thought.
I think the Labour result leaves us in a real mess. The lack of progress in England will strengthen the argument that Labour was pulling too far to the Left. I don’t agree, but that is the claim that will be made. In c…Read more…
‘Draconian’ threat to union actions
As the Tories are set to barely eke out an overall Commons majority this morning (May 8), TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady condemned Cameron’s divisive political tactics that will now spell…Read more…
Election 2015: This was not a one nation campaign
We have to hope that David Cameron’s pledge to govern as a one nation Prime Minister will be his first major U-turn – for his campaign and manifesto was anything but.
The post Election 2015: This was not a one nation campaign appeared first on ToUChstone blog.Read more…
Trade unionism under a Tory Government.
This isn’t a good country to wake up in this morning. The Tories are riding rampant, blue in tooth and claw.
It’s a little early for detailed reflection but we seem to be reaping the bitter harvest sown by a labour movement, the political wing of which peddled “austerity-lite” whilst our…Read more…
Schools and teachers have to fill the holes in the welfare safety net
Last month, an overwhelming majority of the 2,000 members of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) replying to a survey said that their schools were providing support for children from deprived backgrounds. The same proportion – 84 per cent – said that they were providing more of…Read more…
UK General Election 2015: A Union’s Job is to Fight for Working People’s Rights
Colleagues,
Just a quick post as I am tied up preparing for teaching this weekend, and I want to follow the news of the early outcomes of today’s general election in the UK.
So much hangs in the balance for the British labour movement of the election…Read more…
‘UDITA’ film shows need for labour law reform in Bangladesh
You can now watch on the TUC’s website the new documentary UDITA (ARISE) made by Rainbow Collective about the struggles that women trade unionists in the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF)…Read more…
The next chancellor should reject the logic behind today’s warning from the FT’s Chris Giles that weak productivity would mean ‘harsher austerity’
In a column in today’s Financial Times (‘What the next chancellor does not yet know’), Chris Giles sets the economic tone for the next Parliament in part on the basis of yet unknown productivity outcomes. For Giles, as for many others, productivity is an inherent quality or defect of the economy…Read more…
Take 10 minutes and use your vote
The polls are open until 10 o’clock tonight – so if you’ve not already voted, please get down there and have your sayRead more…
Free Lunch Event Wednesday 13 May 2015
All Stoke-On-Trent City Council staff are invited to a free lunch event to be held 12 noon – 1pm in the Windsor Room, Stoke Town Hall on Wednesday 13 May 2015. This event is open to both members and non members … Continue reading →Read more…