UNISON members can help teaching union NASUWT with its annual survey into the true cost of education for families
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We won’t be misled on the #SouthernStrike
Further strike action on Southern Rail take place this week, and the disruption this will cause for passengers is regrettable. But we won’t be misled by the industry on why the strikes are taking place. The extension of driver only operations by Southern Rail is at the heart of the dispute between…Read more…
STRONGER UNISON – request for Community NEC Nominations
NEC Elections 2017: Community General Seat & Female Seat Nomination Request
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Crisis, what crisis?
When is a humanitarian crisis not a humanitarian crisis? Apparently when the health secretary and prime minister choose to reject the analysis of crisis care professionals. On Friday January…Read more…
Nuclear pensions ‘raid’
Energy minister Jesse Norman should step up to the plate and meet the unions over the proposed £600 million ‘raid’ on the pensions of 16,000 nuclear industry workers – otherwise, industrial action…Read more…
Unite BA membership surge
Unite revealed today (January 9) that over 800 cabin crew from British Airways’ ‘mixed fleet’ had joined Unite since the start of the dispute over poverty pay, taking the union’s membership to over…Read more…
Recognition for a champion of our NHS
I’m proud that Gail has been honoured with an OBE, and not just because I know how hard she works for UNISON members. I’m proud too because at time when our health service is under so much pressure,…Read more…
A run on the bank
The rise of food banks are the most visible face of the poverty crisis affecting the UK in 2017 – they’re the country’s new emergency service. We spent a few days at one to find out more
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TUBE STAFF OUT IN FORCE ACROSS THE NETWORK
9 January 2017 RMT Press Office: Tube staff out in force across the network in fight for jobs and safety. General Secretary Mick Cash said; “Our members are out in force across London…Read more…
Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries?
Libraries are under threat – what’s happening with them in your area?
The article Reading between the lines: what’s going on with our libraries? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unison Branch AGMs 13 and 22 February 2017
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS – MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2017 12.30 PM TOLKIEN ROOM, CITY CENTRAL LIBRARY, BETHESDA, ST, HANLEY AND WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 12.30 PM WINDSOR ROOM, CIVIC CENTRE All current branch members are invited to attend one of the two … Continue reading →Read more…
Thousands of people share film thanking public sector workers
Last month, members of the public shared messages for all the public sector staff working over Christmas – and it’s been a huge hit
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New year, new course, new you
It’s a new year, why not try one of UNISON’s courses for a new you?
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London Loop Walk: Section 10 – Moor Park to Elstree
On 25 January 2015 I started the London Loop walk, a 150 mile – 15 routes circular walk around London, thinking I would get it done by the end of that year. By end of 2016 I had only done 10 of the 15 “London Loop” walks.
The last one I did in 2016 wa…Read more…
Why liberal approaches to migration won’t work
While he was a member of the coalition government, Vince Cable was one of the main proponents of a liberal immigration policy, in particular arguing for greater openness to Indian migration as a necessary and even beneficial component of an EU-India tr…Read more…
Household debt is higher than in 2008, is history repeating?
The latest TUC figures on household debt show that consumer credit is still filling the gap left by anaemic wage growth. Data from the Bank of England shows that total consumer credit (that is excluding both mortgages and student loans) grew by 10.8% in November 2016 compared with a year before….Read more…
Newham Fabians Annual General Meeting 11 January & the National Fabians Society New Year Conference 14 Jan 2017
On Wednesday I am looking forward to the Newham Fabian AGM. See picture right from the last one I attended in 2011 (I think there was one in 2013 but none since).
Hat tip photos Dan McCurry.
I think you can still join for £7 and attend.
“Newham Fabians Annual General Meeting
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FIND A LOCAL WASPI GROUP – Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI – Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign
Women Against State Pension Inequality, an action group campaigning against the unfair changes to the State Pension Age imposed on women born in the 1950’s
FIND A LOCAL WASPI GROUP NEAR YOU
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Public sector employment under Labour, the Coalition and the current government
As we get used to writing “2017” on our letters, one of the fundamentals of UK politics hasn’t changed since (at least) 2010: Labour isn’t trusted on the economy. This seems to be as stubborn a public perception as belief in Conservative economic incompetence was for 15 years after the 1992 “Black…Read more…
Disenfranchising the electors of Eldene & Liden
Swindon Council is ruled by anti-democratic clique. They have imposed new parish councils on non-parished areas without any democratic mandate whatsoever and against considerable opposition. They have set a ridiculous deadline with the new parishes hav…Read more…