Cleaners set to strike as private employer plans to axe hours and jobs
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Cleaners set to strike as private employer plans to axe hours and jobs
The article Academics back strike by King’s College cleaners first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Our message is clear and my position is the same as our members: the council must negotiate – massive pay cuts for school support staff cannot be the answer
The article Blog: Derby – our…Read more…
The country’s largest manufacturing union, Unite called on government ministers to adopt yesterday’s (January 23) special report published by the all-party parliamentary group on Steel and…Read more…
Management training for MPs would help eradicate an epidemic of stress and cases of bullying experienced by parliamentary staff, Unite has said. A recent survey by Unite, which has about 500…Read more…
Commenting on today’s Article 50 ruling by the Supreme Court, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The government has been thwarted in its plans to rush the UK into a hard Brexit. It’s now…Read more…
Probing questions need to be asked about the future of UK helicopter production when MPs debate the industry today (January 24). Unite has been pressing MPs on the industry’s future, following…Read more…
In a landmark ruling, Supreme Court judges today (January 24) upheld the view of the High Court that the government must consult Parliament before it triggers Article 50 in preparation to exit the UK…Read more…
UNISON will run its sixth annual safe NHS staffing levels survey on 7 February and is asking all members in the nursing family to take part
The article How safe is the staffing in your hospital?…Read more…
More than 430 workers at the Oxford Bus Company are being balloted for strike action, following ‘a complete breakdown of industrial relations’, Unite said today (January 24). The union said…Read more…
I received this email yesterday and as a signatory to the recent complaint to the Labour Party NEC I have taken its advice and emailed them.
On Tuesday 24th January Labour’s ruling body, the NEC, will be considering a letter submitted by party members in …Read more…
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Update section Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA. Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston. Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people. Labor section ideas Framing the conditions. Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization. Typically not […]Read more…
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Update section Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA. Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston. Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people. Labor section ideas Framing the conditions. Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization. Typically not […]Read more…
Download Ogg Ogg lite MP3 Torrent Update section Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA. Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston. Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people. Labor section ideas Framing the conditions. Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization. Typically not […]Read more…
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* Richard Spencer punch to the music of Born in the USA.
* Peoples Inauguration Friday night in Boston.
* Womens march Saturday in Boston over 175,000 people.
Labor section ideas
* Framing the conditions.
* Davos — themes, new tech and rise of robots, globalization and retreat of globalization.
* Typically not supportive of right wing. They are realizing that the anti union perspective is bad for them.
* View of what to expect under trump.
* Refinery Town book review, about forming Progressive Alliance to win locally and building an alternative to the two parties.
Tech section
* Tech Solidaity meetings.
* Boston experience.
* ACLU: massachusetts membe Kade Crockford spoke and highlighted the importance of secure communication and informed peopel to use Signal. Emphasis on calling elected officials and getting them to hear us, we have a tendency to not take action. FBI can hack without a warrent and the concerns it puts forward. Tech for Liberty project.
* Local organizing to hold police accountable Seecops legislation. Lots of focus on local actions.
* National Domestic Workers Alliance: Spoke about the challenges the immigrant communities have faced and their need to begin to use better technology and communication but also shared knowing the fear many newly active people are seeing. Need to work on making sanctuary companies, in contracts and pushing company leaders. Need tech support with worker centers and working on expanding the security and privacy knowledge.
* MIRA (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocates Coalition) spoke about the local push for supporting free legal assistance and municipal IDs for undocumented folks who cannot get state IDs.
* Labor Lawyer Spoke about the difficulty in organizing tech workers. Spoke about the ways in the US that companies use captive audience meetings to control thoughts on forming a union. But that now is the time to organize to protect our work but more importantly to protect the data that man…Read more…
On the whole a fair article but it does not report on the complaints of many members that this ballot was rigged.
The Guardian Dave Hill on London “Nearly 50 party members in the east London borough want their national ruling body to examine claims …Read more…
Theresa May unveiled her new industrial strategy today (January 23) to a chorus of criticisms that the plan is inadequate and does not offer commitment to the single market or the kind of skills…Read more…
This afternoon, the Government has launched its long-awaited Green Paper on industrial strategy. This could turn out to be a significant moment in the fortunes of Theresa May’s Premiership: with Brexit placing, at the very least, a question mark over the UK’s economic prospects in the near future,…Read more…
Not since the Vietnam War have so many people across the world taken to the streets to defend progressive values, with women’s marches organised in dozens of cities globally on Saturday (January 21),…Read more…
General secretary Dave Prentis launches new campaign in long-running dispute over 25% cuts
The article Derby teaching assistants to take second consecutive week of strikes first appeared on the…Read more…
After six years of fiddling and relying on the so-called invisible hand of the market to correct industrial imbalances the government has finally published an industrial strategy. For the…Read more…