Watch Dave Turnbull, Unite National Officer for food and drink talking about fair tips on ITV’s This Morning. If you haven’t already please sign the petition here
The post TV tips…Read more…
Interested in UNISON communications? Read on….
The August campaigns and communications
activist meeting at Dundee Discovery Point, was open to any UNISON member.
These meetings share good practice and
test new ideas. Sometimes we focus on particular issues like social
media, newsletters or basic communication skills; branches are also invited to
share learning from specific projects.
At this meeting activists took stock of UNISON Read more…
Thousands to march in Ireland against water charges!
As TEEU affiliates to Right2Water, campaign expects large turnout for Saturday’s National DemonstrationRead more…
Culture of fear
Contractors building the energy-from-waste plant at Wilton on Teesside are undercutting pay rates and using ‘exploitative’ employment practices say unions. Construction unions Unite, the GMB…Read more…
One share, one vote
I’ve only followed the progress of the Shareholder Rights Directive at a distance, but it strikes me that it provides a fairly important indicator that something is up. The abandonment of the ‘One share, one vote’ principle, and the encour…Read more…
The largest one-day fall on FTSE since 2009 in its historical context
Yesterday global stock exchanges had their worse day for many years, for some unmatched since the financial crisis of 2008. The FTSE fell by 4.55%, the largest daily fall since 2 March 2009 (when down 5.3%); when markets shut the index was at 5899, its lowest ‘close’ for almost three…Read more…
South West Ham Independent Labour Party – “Wanted £2000 For New Buildings”
Ht tip Captain Swing who noticed this in an ebay auction. I am not sure who “Treasurer Alderman W. Bell 15 Mafeking Road E16” or what was the “New Building” appeal or why the “Bullfinch”? but suspect he is the former Mayor of West Ham mentioned here ht…Read more…
Tube strike: Unite suspends action
Over 400 members of the Unite union have suspended industrial action at London Underground as a gesture of goodwill following progress in talks over the introduction of Tube night running. The…Read more…
Lebanese unions join You Stink protests over rubbish
Lebanon has been rocked by #YouStink anti-government protests as waste piles up in the streets. Port works struck over the dumping of rubbish in the harbour.Read more…
Join us in Manchester
On Sunday, it will be just five weeks to the TUC’s demonstration in Manchester marking the opening of the Tory party conference
The article Join us in Manchester first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Revisit public inquiry plea
Ahead of the second anniversary of the Sumburgh offshore helicopter tragedy, Unite has called on the UK government to urgently revisit the recommendation of the previous parliament’s Transport Select…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn and Michael Foot must be seen in Context.
There is criticism of the movement to elect Jeremy Corbyn that wants to relate it with Michael foot.The question is a contextual issue. The attempt is to disrupt or block the candidature by taking…Read more…
Meals of justice
Congratulations to Unite organiser Ewa Jasiewicz and the Unite activists who staged the first ‘Meal of Justice’ at Pizza Express recently. As part of the campaign to get Pizza Express to…Read more…
Gas bills a lot of hot air?
With wholesale gas price close to hitting record lows, will the energy giants pass on savings in lower bills or bank higher profits? For some, it might still be a question of ‘heat or…Read more…
‘Teetering on edge of abyss’
Workers from nine sub-contracting companies will be staging a wave of industrial action in the escalating dispute at Sellafield in Cumbria to improve health and safety and productivity at the nuclear…Read more…
Can the leadership debate re-engage Labour supporters?
It is sad to see process overtaking politics in the Labour leadership debate, especially because the campaign had at least contained something about visions and policies and how best to deliver on…Read more…
Edinburgh Festivals 3. Sin, Dystopia and Scotland
…and this is the two of the other reviews from Saturday’s Morning Star article (see previous blog). (The other one was in my first Edinburgh blog.)
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner….Read more…
Newham Overview & Scrunity “Call in” on SPV – 6.30pm Monday 24 August 2015
Tomorrow evening at Committee Room 1, East Ham Town Hall, members of Newham Council Overview & Scrutiny will debate a request from a Cllr that up to £500,000 should not yet be spent on a proposed Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for its staff pension fund.
Cllr Farah Nazeer has asked that this…Read more…
Lord Sainsbury to fund new political organisation? – Egress to replace Progress
I’m not sure that any of what follows is true and urge caution to all readers.
Sources close to right-wing Blairite group “Progress” have allegedly revealed that their funder, Lord Sainsbury, will be funding a new organisation (“Egress”) intended to capture and develop their brilliance.
The…Read more…
UK car output up – and down
By David Bailey, Professor of Industry at Aston Business School After its best first half year in ages, UK car and engine manufacturing took something of a hit last month, as annual summer shutdowns…Read more…