UNISON conference condemns replacing police staff with low-paid workers and unpaid volunteers
The article Policing on the cheap? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Left all alone
More than two thirds of English councils have cut vital care packages for disabled people since the government scrapped the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in favour of paying local authorities…Read more…
National Work Life Week Scotland Conference 2016
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Delegates highlight changes to probation service negotiation
Police and justice conference debate the changing nature of negotiation
The article Delegates highlight changes to probation service negotiation first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Pension Savers are being left to fend for themselves:
More than a quarter of a million pension savers are being left to “fend for themselves”, warns TUC More than a quarter of a million pension savers a year are being left to “fend for themselves” when…Read more…
Black worker representation in the police and justice sector ‘going in the wrong direction’
A white applicant to the police force has a better chance of getting a job than a Black applicant in more than two thirds of UK forces, UNISON’s police and justice conference heard today.
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When profits come before safety
If you are a fan of action movies and disaster movies, there is a very good reason to check out this film. More importantly if you are a safety person this is a film to see – however painful it may…Read more…
‘United, we can win‘ says Dave Prentis as he joins Derby picket
‘You are the union’ general secretary tells striking teaching assistants in Derby, battling imposed 25% pay cut
The article ‘United, we can win‘ says Dave Prentis as he joins Derby picket first…Read more…
Chicken coop private schools for Africa’s kids
Mugwena Maluleke reports on Bridge International Academies, a billionaire-funded company running substandard for-profit schools all across Africa and Asia Bridge International Academies (BIA) is an…Read more…
How to avoid being Fujitsu Voice-less
The company plans to terminate Fujitsu Voice in January, cutting employees’ rights in relation to redundancy, information and consultation. Click…Read more…
Teaching Assistants deserve better than being pushed into poverty by a Labour council
We’ll continue to fight for and alongside striking staff in Derby to win them the pay deal they deserve. And I want to see Durham teaching assistants voting for strike action too, so we can show…Read more…
Canada’s example: Proportional Representation is only tinkering.
Trudeau Government’s Electoral Reform Electoral Reform in the Age of the Cartel Party System The reforms to the electoral law the Trudeau government plans to put forward will not improve…Read more…
“Education not Segregation” – West Ham Labour Party Street Stall: Barking Rd, 11.30am, Saturday 8 October
“Despite the rain we had a great turnout last week – so we’d thought we’d do it again.
Please join local members at a street stall on Saturday. And some of us will also knock on doors of nearby homes to talk to voters there too. Don’t worry if you’v…Read more…
Free Trade: Winners and Losers
The collapse of the US-EU trade negotiations known as TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) seems — for the time being, at least — like a victory for the people. That at any rate…Read more…
Theresa May is not a foolish politician. She knows exactly what she is doing
Politics is not an exercise in wish fulfilment. Actions are what matters. Poverty can’t be willed into extinction merely by asking for it. Nor fairness introduced to the economy through platitudes….Read more…
Record investment or NHS funding crisis? The stats behind Theresa May’s spending boast
“Let us take this opportunity to show that we, the Conservative Party, truly are the party of the workers. The party of the public servants. The party of the NHS. Because we believe in public service. We believe in investing in and supporting the institutions that make our country great” Thus spoke…Read more…
Thinking globally about trade union density
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Seat at the table
Theresa May’s pledge to install worker representatives on company boards could be law “within a year”, according to a new TUC report. The commitment, made during the prime minister’s summer…Read more…
And the con goes on…
Unite warned of a continuing con trick as it responded to prime minister Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party conference today (Wednesday October 5). Responding to May’s first…Read more…
Poor odds for workers
Unite will be protesting outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Gloucester and Southampton on Friday (October 7), as part…Read more…