Circular No: IR/306/16 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR2/14/2 17th July 2017 Dear Colleague, BREACH OF…Read more…
Public sector workers are asking for a fair pay rise, not a windfall
David Chrimes is a Crown Advocate employed by the Crown Prosecution Service. He writes about why, after a seven-year squeeze, public sector workers deserve a pay rise. For us, this isn’t about pitting public sector against private sector. It’s simply about securing fair pay, which…Read more…
Transaction tax:
The circulation of goods from the point of manufacture to the point of consumption should be carried out by administrative means only. The market economy of commodity exchange, is an unwieldy and…Read more…
The Chancellor is “completely out of touch” on pay, says UNISON
Commenting on the Chancellor’s comments today (Sunday) on public sector pay, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “The Chancellor’s remarks show he is completely out of…Read more…
Workers stranded in diplomatic stand-off as Qatar and Saudi Arabia square up
As wealthy Gulf states face off over long simmering diplomatic differences, foreign workers in both countries are at risk of bearing the brunt of the dispute. An ongoing row in the Gulf over Qatar’s alleged links to terrorist groups, with the wealthy nation blockaded by a group of neighbours led by…Read more…
A new Anti-Slavery Charter: how to combat slavery in the 21st Century
Unionised workforces cannot be enslaved. This is because of the simple fact that a unionised workforce is harder to exploit by even the most unscrupulous employers. But that self-evident truth is one that many who profess themselves concerned with the …Read more…
Future economies: what next for globalisation and trade?
Last week I was invited to the British-German Forum – a symposium for young people from both countries – at Wilton Park, an agency of the FCO, to talk with my colleague Jan Stern from the German trade union confederation the DGB, about the issues facing globalisation. Here’s an…Read more…
Labour at Forest Gate Festival 2017
Picture collage from Saturdays Forest Gate Festival. This was a really fantastic event and for the first time we had a Labour Party stall at the festival talking to people and encouraging them to join the Party.
It was amazing how many people said the…Read more…
Housing speech at UNISON National Labour Link Forum
John Gray, speaking on behalf of your National Labour Link Committee in favour of motion 11 (similar) “Why we need to build a new housing consensus for affordable and decent homes for all”
as amended.
“Chair, Forum, In 1945 General electio…Read more…
ShareAction Summer thank you 2017
Picture collage from Thursday evening “thank you event” in Brick Lane, East London for supporters of ShareAction – a campaigning body “to make investment a force for the good”.
It was great to meet so many people concerned about the po…Read more…
UNISON at Notting Hill HA
Picture of Notting Hill UNISON activists in Vauxhall with our ace branch Fighting Fund Organiser, Mary Stump (left), after one of the most successful lunchtime recruitment events I have attended. Six new members filled out forms and there was huge inte…Read more…
There is No PPF or Crown Promise for the LGPS Pension scheme which must be run in the interests of pensioners and not the employers
To be clear.
A Council (or administering authority) is responsible for the majority of any pension deficit but that if the fund does badly and the Council runs out of money (which due to austerity it has been widely predicted will happen to some autho…Read more…
Blog: We must stop the government removing your rights without debate, oversight or a vote
Hard won rights fought for and won over decades could be eliminated by the stroke of a pen in Whitehall.
The article Blog: We must stop the government removing your rights without debate, oversight…Read more…
Taylor tinkers and employees will still be exploited
14 July 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Bradford
It was always likely to happen and now it has – the much awaited publication of The Taylor Review of Modern…Read more…
The ‘not so Great’ Repeal Bill – what’s in it for working people?
Over the last year, the TUC has highlighted just how many of the workplace rights most of us take for granted come from Europe and how these rights could be at risk as we prepare to leave the EU. The government has sought to allay these concerns by pro…Read more…
Unions submit pay claim on behalf of over 30,000 police staff
The UK’s three largest unions have submitted a pay claim on behalf of the 32,000 police staff they represent in England and Wales. UNISON, UNITE and GMB have put in a claim for a 5% or £1,000…Read more…
Apprentices protected by new pay guidance
UNISON will support branches with new guidance ‘to make it stick’ in the workplace
The article Apprentices protected by new pay guidance first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
What the Taylor Review says about learning and skills
Apart from the specialist press, such as the TES, coverage of the proposals in the Taylor Review on learning and skills has been limited. This is not too surprising considering the focus of the review on tackling contentious employment rights issues in…Read more…
Missing (maybe you didn’t look that hard?)
Off message but love this. Hat tip Neil Black on FB Forest Gate Life. Read more…
Rights of people at work must stay protected, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication of the Great Repeal Bill today (Thursday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The rights of people at work must stay protected. It’s not enough to safeguard…Read more…