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July Scotland in UNISON now online
A packed issue with conference reports on defending jobs, services and union rights; Glasgow strike; reinstate Robert O’Donnell; pay; organising; social work news; Fair Work Convention; homes for people not profit; defending libraries; giving our members confidence and much more http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/index.htmlRead more…
No to Austerity! For a New Direction for Society!
131st Durham Miners Gala: — Call of the Northern Region of RCPB(ML), July 11, 2015 — The Working Class and People Must Build the Workers’ Opposition and Set their Sights on Becoming the…Read more…
Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary and “Repeat please!”
Today is the anniversary of the start of “The Battle of Britain”. A flypast of RAF Second World War and modern war planes took place over Buckingham Place. Six surviving pilots joined the Queen for the display and her fellow …Read more…
UNISON must support Jeremy Corbyn, the UNISON candidate for Labour Leader
Below is a message which I have sent to relevant members of my UNISON branch, in line with the agreed policy of the branch. I would urge every UNISON activist to encourage their branch to send a similar message (if your branch has taken a similar decision). As UNITE’s decision to nominate Jeremy…Read more…
Clock is ticking for Ofsted on FoI requests
On June 30, ATL submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request regarding the failure of 1,200 inspectors to pass Ofsted’s rigorous new assessment process: Dear Madam/Sir Freedom of…Read more…
Honour pay deal call
The delivery of cash to the UK’s 4,500 post offices could be hit, if a group of Post Office managers take industrial action over the management’s refusal to make an agreed one-off payment of between…Read more…
“In our unity there is strength”
Osborne’s onslaught on tax credits will disproportionately impact Northern Ireland, Unite has warned. If adopted in Northern Ireland, plans to scrap student maintenance grants would exclude a…Read more…
We are not the enemy within
Ministers should stop regarding trade unions as ‘the enemy within’ when it comes to partnership working to jump-start the UK’s dismal productivity record, Unite said today (July 10). …Read more…
Contradictory tangle
George Osborne’s emergency summer Budget was released with much fanfare on Wednesday (July 8), with the announcement of a compulsory “Living Wage” being hailed as the chancellor’s “master stroke”….Read more…
Migrant workers expose wins plaudits
The Unite communications department took home two awards at the TUC trade union communications awards on Tuesday night (July 7), including winner of the Best Feature category and a Highly Commended…Read more…
Unite Rules Conference – day four
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This report is incomplete as I don’t yet have the official record of decisions. I will update it when I do.
The main excitement of the day was conference overturning the Executive Council over Gibraltar. NR/4 created an Area Activist…Read more…
Barnet UNISON Secretary Victim of Hate Crime
I pass on the following news without comment except to express full solidarity and support to John Burgess and Barnet UNISON.
As trade unions resist the attacks we…Read more…
Pay offer ends action
Strike action at pharmaceuticals and healthcare supplier United Drugs/Sangers was suspended yesterday (July 9) after management offered the workforce a backdated pay improvement. Unite…Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Local Trade Unionist Victim of Hate Crime
Barnet UNISON Press Release: 10 July 2015
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TELL THE BARCELONA FOOTBALL CLUB TO DROP QATAR AIRWAYS
Abdes Ouaddou, the Moroccan footballer who found himself a victim of kafala when his Qatari club stopped paying him and refused to let him leave the country when he protested, has been a tireless…Read more…
Construction failure reflects neglect and recklessness under the coalition
Latest ONS figures show construction falling by -1.3 per cent into May; this follows a Q1 growth figure that was the slowest for two years. The chart below shows the longer view. Construction output caved-in in the early years of the coalition; from ar…Read more…
George Osborne: British Conservative or German-style Christian Democrat?
My former TUC colleague Duncan Weldon, who is now the Newsnight economics correspondent, has written an interesting post for his BBC web page today under the headline ‘Osborne’s “Christian Democrat Budget”? Duncan knows that I’ve long taken an interest in the German economic model and, accordingly,…Read more…
UNISON care workers recieve compensation after violent incident at work
Most people join a union for personal advice and support at work or the benefits of having collective bargaining over your terms and conditions.
Free legal advice and representation by trusted and expert union lawyers is also something to bear …Read more…
Balfour Beatty heading for the rocks:
Balfour Beatty issues another profit warning UK engineering group Balfour Beatty has issued another profit warning, saying its 2015 results will be hit by a “shortfall” of £120m-£150m….Read more…