Cymru Wales members gather at local government meeting
The article UNISON lobby for pay justice for school and council workers first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Lobby of Library Committee – 12 October – please support
TUC issues guide to help reps deal with cancer in the workplace
Guidance helps reps to support colleaguesRead more…
Teamsters tell Whole Foods: Black Lives Matter
Although Whole Foods caters to the “socially conscious” consumer, it relies on prison labour to make a profit.Read more…
Convenors Constituency Newsletter October 2015
(You never know what ripples a visit by a branch convenor could make in your workplace!) Com-Unison is the first in what will hopefully be a bi-monthly or quarterly newsletter from convenors. However, it’s success largely depends upon members contacting us with a … Continue reading…Read more…
Another Fidelity – Conservative Party link
I’ve blogged a lot previously about the many links that exist between the asset manager Fidelity and the Conservative Party. I’ve just discovered a new one that provides a bit more insight into how significant the relationship is.
The Leader’s Group i…Read more…
Now We Are The Builders! New Centre Left political blog
Check out this new Labour Supporting blog “Now We Are The Builders”. It aims to be “A Centre-Left blog, a space for discussion and comment. Thoughts and reflections from within the Labour movement.- all views are the contributors own”.
It welcomes g…Read more…
Not an April Fool: Tories to launch their own trade union movement
Trade union leaders dismiss Conservative plans as a pre-conference gimmickRead more…
Carlsberg workers begin industrial action over pay
Unite members start overtime ban and begin work-to-ruleRead more…
Burnham pledges to take on anti-trade union cops
UCATT welcomes shadow home secretary’s commitment to investigate blacklistingRead more…
“Hardly a cause for euphoria” – TUC on minimum wage rise
Frances O’Grady says it is hard to celebrate when low-income families will see rise wiped out by cuts to tax creditsRead more…
Union fights £3.5m cuts to Barnsley Hospital
GMB says reduction in beds and wards will put lives at riskRead more…
Newham Crew at Labour Party Conference 2015 #Lab15
Picture from the traditional Conference social for members of West Ham and East Ham Labour Party members on Monday evening.
While I have no doubt this picture will now reappear in various Newham based blogs with helpful captions and comments I am sure…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Leader’s speech to Labour Conference #Lab15
Despite being a delegate (and in theory having a reserved seat) there was still a massive queue for us to get in for the “Leader’s speech”.
The atmosphere in the hall itself was one of anticipation and a genuine curiosity about what Jeremy would say a…Read more…
Living Wage roadmap needed, Unite tells forum
Unite proposes measures to ensure Living Wage becomes new Minimum WageRead more…
We want democracy and peace, say Turkey’s Kurds
Press Statement by the UNISON Scotland Delegation who visited the Kurdish region in Turkey.Read more…
Jamaica Demands Reparations for Britain’s ‘Haunting’ Legacy of Slavery
The compensation given to slave owners after emancipation in 1833 was the biggest bailout by the state until banking crisis – and David Cameron’s family benefited.Read more…
Turkish unions: we are fighting government terrorism
Unison activist Stephen Smellie reports from Turkey on the state-sponsored abuse and terror meted out there against trade unions and their brave activistsRead more…
Chinese economic crisis bites as 100,000 coal miners laid off
Mass lay-offs in Heilongjiang add to China’s coal industry woes.Read more…
The Trade Union Bill and my job: Alyson’s story
My name is Alyson and I’m a midday assistant in a special school
The article The Trade Union Bill and my job: Alyson’s story first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…