Yes, I know about an increase in population and low turnout in 2005 but…
#justsaying.
Makes you think maybe it wasn’t that bad…?
Hat tip Dr Éoin ClarkeRead more…
COHSE Wales – Regional Secretaries
Dave Galligan COHSE Wales
Dave Galligan was the Regional Secretary of COHSE in Wales in the 1980’s and 1990’s the Regional Head of Health for UNISON until 2013.
Worked at the University of Wales Hospital, COHSE NEC member of Wales
Died 17th February 2015 aged 66
Wife Ka…Read more…
Making progress
Last week the NAPF launched a discussion document to address what it says is a “workforce-sized hole” in corporate reporting. In the introduction to the paper the NAPF says:
within the Environmental, Social and Governance acronym the understanding and…Read more…
John Smith COHSE Conference 1993
COHSE Racism & Nursing Conference 1990
COHSE – Joan Walley MP
Joan Walley was a COHSE sponsored MP (Stoke North) – here with Mo Mowlan and a young Tony Blair
With COHSE General Secretary Hector Mackenzie
Scarborough 1992Read more…
UNISON Nursing Sector Executive 1993
Unison’s first Nursing Sector Executive 1993Read more…
Whistleblower Paul Walsh 1982 – Wexham Park
RAMC WW1
NHS Wall Mural
Unison
UK Filipino Nurses Demand Justice
FILIPINO NURSES DEMAND JUSTICE
Over five hundred Filipino nurses attended a protest rally outside the headquarters of the Daily Mail London Newspaper on Saturday 30 May 2015 to protest at derogatory articles and headlines which sort to demon…Read more…
WW1 – NCF Conscientious Objector’s
Bring together library members to share and learn
#uLGC15 Falkirk’s Gray Allan warned UNISON’s Local Government Conference of the dangers of outsourcing library services as Local Government delegates pledged to campaign against the closure of library and leisure services but also called for support and training to engage in commissioning and procurement to ensure that UNISON can play an integral role in protecting jobs and services.
A librarianRead more…
National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives
The National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives was established in Stafford in 1874. By 1918 the union could report that over 20,000 of its members were in military service and over 2,000 had been…Read more…
End Austerity Now – National Demonstrations Saturday 20th June 2015
For details:http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/end_austerity_now_national_demonstration_saturday_20th_juneRead more…
You can’t have everything…
http://unisonactive.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/we-belong-to-glesga-dear-olglesga-toon.html?m=1
Our friends at UNISON Anonymous, the blog which is certainly never written by paid officials of our Union, appear unimpressed with Motion 106, the Lambeth branch…Read more…
The end of social housing? 10 Tory plans to finish it off
Hat tip to progressive Housing blog “Redbrick” where I have stolen their arguments about Government housing plans and put my own slant on it. They highlight 10 problems with these plans for social housing :-“The new Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) – which precludes building for…Read more…