Since June, Sunflower Women Workers’ Centre, a three-year-old labour NGO based in Guangdong province that has been active in helping factory girls’ defend their rights, was told by the local civic…Read more…
A learning and teaching toolkit for vocational education
Professor Bill Lucas will be giving a keynote speech at the ATL’s FE conference 2015 in London on Friday 10 July. Elsewhere in the world, they talk about pedagogy when discussing vocational…Read more…
UNISON Labour Link 2015: Day 2 – meet the “Newbie” MPs
Day 2 of the National UNISON Labour Link Forum in Manchester started this morning with a “Parliamentary Panel” of MPs and MEPS (see picture). It was inspiring to see 3 new MPs who come from our movement sitting for the first time alongside longer…Read more…
UNISON #Lablink15 Day 2 ‘Meet the Newbie MPs’
Day 2 of the National UNISON Labour Link Forum in Manchester started with a Parliamentary Panel of MPs and MEPS (see picture). It was inspiring to see three new MPs who come from our movement…Read more…
Middle-income families with kids hit hardest by Tory cuts
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Race Equality & Organised Labour
Colleagues,
Many thanks to Trish Lavelle (CWU Head of Education) and CWU colleagues at the union’s magnificent education facility Alvescot Lodge in Oxforshire, for organising and hosting another fantastic BME Leadership Weekend.
Yet again we have been…Read more…
Tolpuddle in Tuscany: talking Brexit & Grexit
Last night I was sat in a tent for a couple of hours on top of a hill in Tuscany, alongside the current and future Presidents of the European Trade Union Confederation (Ignacio Toxo from…Read more…
Happy 123rd Anniversary of Keir Hardie election of first ever Labour MP
Today (4 July) is not only the anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence (arguably the only successful British Revolution) but also the election of the first ever Labour MP, Keir Hardie.
He was elected for West Ham South in 1892. Ph…Read more…
Why the social security system is vital to low paid workers
As we await the the assault on working people in the first Tory budget next week, new data points to better ways of supporting the low paid and reducing inequality.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has…Read more…
MEPs must listen to the people and vote down #ISDS compromise in #TTIP debate
Our MEPs look set at last to debate and vote later this week on the promised resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the EU and USA. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling on MEPs to vote a…Read more…
Confusion over pay…
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/higher-education-members-vote-to-accept-pay-offer
This story – from our national website – reports the decision of the Higher Education Service Group Executive (SGE) to accept the employers’ pay offer, following a consulta…Read more…
UNISON #Lablink15: Day 1. ‘We will never walk away from the Labour Party’
The UNISON political fund representing members who have decided to affiliate to the Labour Party began its annual forum this morning in Manchester.
The forum was opened by Dave Prentis who…Read more…
Unison Labour Link 2015: Day 1. “…We will never walk away from the Labour Party”
The UNISON political fund representing members who have decided to affiliate to the Labour Party began its Annual Forum this morning in Manchester.
The forum was opened by Dave Prentis who promised delegates that as long as he is General Secretary, un…Read more…
Proud at Pride – Support #BarnetStrikers
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A workplace savings strategy is a good idea – but tread carefully
New Pensions Minister Ros Altmann has caused a stir with the publication this week of her pre-Election musings about the possible desirability of extending workplace savings beyond pensions. This is a useful and important development because a strategy…Read more…
Ground-breaking agreement
Dock workers working for Blue Arrow at the Port of Liverpool have agreed to a ground-breaking three-year pay deal that lifts the threat of strike action, Unite announced today (July 3). …Read more…
Being on the right side of history
Paloma Faith’s political warm-up act, Fox News’ “braying jackal” and The Sun’s “camera-chasing Guardian goblin”. Owen Jones provokes many descriptions but for many he is Britain’s leading left-wing…Read more…
UK Labour Leadership
I was at the UNISON Labour Link hustings for the UK Labour Leadership today in Manchester. With our focus on the Scottish leadership election’s earlier timetable, this was my first real opportunity…Read more…
UNISON Scotland welcomes breakthrough in tackling low pay in the NHS
Friday 3 July 2015
UNISON Scotland’s Health Committee today welcomed a
breakthrough in the fight against poverty pay with the Scottish
Government agreeing to a review of the lowest pay band.
This development highlights the benefits of
Partnership working which has been the basis of industrial relations
in NHSScotland since 1999 and further enshrinesRead more…
Farming – even less safe
Crushed by bales of hay, trampled by a bull or run over by a reversing tractor – these are just a handful of the gruesome causes of death in farming, the most peril-fraught sector in the economy….Read more…