Invitation: LAPFF Roundtable on Socio-Economic Diversity: 23 March @ 3pm (f you are an LGPS officer, pension committee or board member or an advisor please join us next week) Dear LAPFF members, I am writing to you to remind you of the Round…Read more…
Review: How Civil Wars Start – And How to Stop Them, by Barbara F. Walter
Barbara Walter’s book has a promising beginning. An academic who has been studying civil wars for some time now, she tries to come up with an explanation for why civil wars happen. A lot of…Read more…
NEC reiterates condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Meeting hears that UNISON ‘will continue to work with the international trade union movement to offer support to Ukraine’
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Care connect learning – when UNISON lost a lot of money…
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which are going for a song at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
This refers to my first (of seven) term of office on the National Executive Council (NEC) of …Read more…
DSA needs to learn the lessons of SDS
Sixty years ago, the United States was still in the grip of the McCarthy era. The Attorney General would regularly update his list of “subversive” organisations. Communists and other…Read more…
Putin’s UNISON “useful idiots” blames the military invasion of Ukraine on NATO and don’t support sanctions against apartheid or fascist regimes
Blog post title is mine but please check out and share this really important expose of the vile decisions currently been made in our name by the extremist toy town revolutionaries who currently dominate our NEC and are doing their best to destr…Read more…
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‘We can’t afford to live’
Ahead of the spring statement on Wednesday, March 23, members of Unite Community will travel to Rishi Sunak’s Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire to urge him to do a lot more to help the UK’s…Read more…
Financial Conduct Authority staff in strike vote
Employees working across the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today (March 15) served notice to begin a ballot on taking industrial action against cuts to their pay and conditions. Unite, the…Read more…
‘Shoulder to shoulder’
Dozens of Unite activists, representing thousands of refuse workers from across the country, stood shoulder-to-shoulder with shop steward, Peter Randle in Birmingham today (March 15). He has been…Read more…
Ministers must stop public sector worker wages falling so far behind, says UNISON
Staff mustn’t heave to leave jobs to get decent pay
The article Ministers must stop public sector worker wages falling so far behind, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Wizz Air Luton passengers face ‘serious disruption’
Wizz Air passengers at Luton airport will face ‘serious disruption’ if baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London Ground Handling Services vote to strike over pay. Unite said around…Read more…
Coventry bin strikes to escalate
A “catalogue of failures” and “rank incompetence” on the part of Coventry council means the long-running Coventry bin strike will continue into the summer after HGV drivers voted for further…Read more…
Culture change in Lambeth?
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which you can purchase for next to nothing at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.This concerns changes made to Lambeth council’s Human Resources function, dur…Read more…
UNISON launches new manifesto for social work
Move comes on International Social Work Day and explores both the state of social work in the UK today and the union’s hopes for the future
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Pension scammers screw up lives
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“Pension scammers screw up lives. With up to 5% of all transfers estimated to be scams there are devastating financial and emotional consequences for scheme members. But you can help. The industry is best placed to identify and stop potential sca…Read more…
Blog: Why solidarity with Ukraine is the only way
Like everyone else I’ve watched the news of the war in Ukraine with a mixture of disbelief, horror and disgust. And there is no respite in sight
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Manchester mayor accelerates bus franchising plans
Unite, which represents over 70,000 bus workers, has welcomed the decision of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to accelerate his plans to introduce bus franchising in the city region. In the…Read more…
Ukraine – share your stories
UNISON wants to hear from Ukrainian and Russian members, as well as branches who are seeking to help the victims of war
The article Ukraine – share your stories first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Supply teachers in Wales are treated as second class citizens by schools and agencies
At Wales TUC we want to see supply teachers receive the rewards they deserve as dedicated educators. We’ve raised the issue with Welsh Government and are pushing for an end to the private agency…Read more…