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“In a few weeks’ time, we will be casting our votes for who will be the Labour candidate for Mayor of London.
Before voting begins, you will have a chance be put the candidates to the test in hustings being held across London.
This is your chance to put your questions to the candidates and hear…Read more…
Yes, I know about an increase in population and low turnout in 2005 but…
#justsaying.
Makes you think maybe it wasn’t that bad…?
Hat tip Dr Éoin ClarkeRead more…
Dave Galligan was the Regional Secretary of COHSE in Wales in the 1980’s and 1990’s the Regional Head of Health for UNISON until 2013.
Worked at the University of Wales Hospital, COHSE NEC member of Wales
Died 17th February 2015 aged 66
Wife Ka…Read more…
Last week the NAPF launched a discussion document to address what it says is a “workforce-sized hole” in corporate reporting. In the introduction to the paper the NAPF says:
within the Environmental, Social and Governance acronym the understanding and…Read more…
Joan Walley was a COHSE sponsored MP (Stoke North) – here with Mo Mowlan and a young Tony Blair
With COHSE General Secretary Hector Mackenzie
Scarborough 1992Read more…
Unison’s first Nursing Sector Executive 1993Read more…
FILIPINO NURSES DEMAND JUSTICE
Over five hundred Filipino nurses attended a protest rally outside the headquarters of the Daily Mail London Newspaper on Saturday 30 May 2015 to protest at derogatory articles and headlines which sort to demon…Read more…
#uLGC15 Falkirk’s Gray Allan warned UNISON’s Local Government Conference of the dangers of outsourcing library services as Local Government delegates pledged to campaign against the closure of library and leisure services but also called for support and training to engage in commissioning and procurement to ensure that UNISON can play an integral role in protecting jobs and services.
A librarianRead more…
The National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives was established in Stafford in 1874. By 1918 the union could report that over 20,000 of its members were in military service and over 2,000 had been…Read more…
For details:http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/end_austerity_now_national_demonstration_saturday_20th_juneRead more…
http://unisonactive.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/we-belong-to-glesga-dear-olglesga-toon.html?m=1
Our friends at UNISON Anonymous, the blog which is certainly never written by paid officials of our Union, appear unimpressed with Motion 106, the Lambeth branch…Read more…
Hat tip to progressive Housing blog “Redbrick” where I have stolen their arguments about Government housing plans and put my own slant on it. They highlight 10 problems with these plans for social housing :-“The new Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) – which precludes building for…Read more…