Health and safety rep Scott Donohoe praised after being awarded the STUC Frank Maguire award
The article UNISON rep wins praise for work on stress first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Ask your MP to speak up for student health professionals
Help save the NHS bursary for student nurses, midwives and other health professionals in England
The article Ask your MP to speak up for student health professionals first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Hardworking, dedicated school staff are being driven towards the exit door
Unless the government gets their act together, many of these invaluable public servants will leave their jobs – and their skills and talents will be lost to schools and children alike.
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Millions have been wasted on failed baseline. It’s time to listen to ATL members
Last week, education secretary Nicky Morgan appeared before the Education Select Committee to defend some of the controversial proposals in the white paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere. She…Read more…
Lawyers confirm #Brexit would put your rights at work at risk
Today GQ Employment Law LLP has issued a report endorsing TUC concerns that Brexit could endanger rights at work. The ’boutique’ law firm suggests that weekly working time limits could well be under threat, along with overtime pay, and requirements to consult before mass…Read more…
Australia’s migration system wouldn’t work here either
When supporters of tougher immigration controls are asked what system they would introduce, they often point to Australia’s points-based system. I often get the feeling that this is as much an appeal to old Commonwealth ties as much as a rational answer to the question, with potentially…Read more…
As death returns to May Day protests, Turkey is sliding back into dictatorship
We – and colleagues in the Turkish trade union movement – have been writing about the struggles of the Turkish trade union movement on Stronger Unions for years. At one point, things were…Read more…
Schools face exodus of support staff over workload stress, says UNISON survey
More than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their workloads, according to a new survey published today…Read more…
World Press Freedom Day 2016
There must be no hiding place for those who attack journalists or undermine media freedom…Read more…
“On the Knocker” for Sadiq in Forest Gate.
The collage is from recent campaign sessions in Forest Gate North (West Ham CLP). The Labour vote for Sadiq Khan in the ward is pretty overwhelming. It is also amazing how many Party members there are nowadays. Every street it seems has 2 or 3 me…Read more…
TUC joins May Day protests for jailed Iranian teachers
The TUC has supported a letter this 1 May calling on the Iranian government to release two Iranian teacher union leaders and scores of other jailed trade unionists as part of a general call “to…Read more…
“Stop the Housing Bill” Lobby tomorrow Tuesday 3rd May
I will be at the lobby tomorrow evening after 5pm (Tuesday 3rd May).
From UNISON press release “The Housing and Planning Bill is nearing its conclusion in Parliament, it returns to the Commons on 3 May, when it will be debated by MPs.
This is a cruci…Read more…
#ISDS: Government position shows ideology trumps evidence
We’re often told that Governments are committed to ‘evidence-based policy making’, although it often seems that it’s the other way round. Now we see, starkly revealed, how far the UK government’s trade policy is based far more on ideology than evidence. A Freedom of…Read more…
Pay all care workers living wage, says UNISON
UNISON is calling on all employers to pay the living wage to care workers and all councils to adopt UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter in its Social care manifesto for Scotland to improve working conditions for some of the worst paid public workers in Scotland.
UNISON manifesto Social Care in Scotland is launched today (Monday 2 May) (See on website)
Improving the quality of care means seriouslyRead more…
A day to reflect upon the future of our movement
We celebrate a movement that fought for democracy and the rights we enjoy at home and in the workplace, decent education and changed our country into a fairer and more decent place.
The article A…Read more…
The Emperor has no clothes. DC Pensions
From Professional Pensions “John Gray looks at whether current contribution levels across DB and DC are adequate.As well as being an employee representative on a pension board I am also a UNISON trade union branch secretary with members in more than 14…Read more…
Contrived. Corrupt. Corrosive
Ken Livingstone’s ego was always going to be his (and arguably Corbyn’s) undoing. But the contrived charges of anti-Semitism would have been landed on the Corbynistas regardless of whoever it was…Read more…
Mary Locke for Bournvill Ward, May 5 2016
This picture collage is from last Saturday, when I went to Birmingham to support my UNISON NEC colleague, Mary Locke, who is standing to be a Labour Councillor in Bournville ward, Birmingham next Thursday 5 May.
Mary would make a fantastic Councillor…Read more…
Cynicism as ideology? A lecture to the workers from their employees…
http://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/local-government-pay-disarray
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Marxist-Leninist) will know that your blogger has – over the years – paid unreasonable attention to the meanderings of a bizarre xenophobic sect on t…Read more…
Fracking and the election debate
Fracking has probably been the only energy issue to surface in the Scottish Parliament election campaign. The Tories support it, Labour oppose it, and the SNP are sceptical, but not ruling it out.As…Read more…