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What does the National Pay award mean for me?

Dec 16, 2014By Barnet UNISON

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Dec 16, 2014Barnet UNISON

Guilty of being pregnant, and telling truth at job interview

Dec 16, 2014By RandomPottins

 WHEN we were young it was considered a feature unique to faraway totalitarian regimes, and unimaginable in Britain, that the state should dictate to couples whether they could have children, or…Read more…

Dec 16, 2014RandomPottins

Mind the gap – has George Osborne got a plan for funding the NHS?

Dec 16, 2014By Touchstone blog

One of the big ticket items coming out of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement was additional funding for the NHS. £2bn extra for 2015/16 and a new £300m a year fund for kick-starting GP innovation, derived from fines imposed on the banks’ shady foreign exchange dealings. There was plenty of…Read more…

Dec 16, 2014Touchstone blog

UK Statistics Authority validates TUC concerns over sloppy figures at HM Treasury

Dec 16, 2014By Touchstone blog

This week, Sir Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, issued a written response to TUC’s concerns about poor data practices at HM Treasury. This was a reply to the formal complaint lodged by TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady last October.  We are pleased with the seriousness with…Read more…

Dec 16, 2014Touchstone blog

Decent jobs week

Dec 16, 2014By Dave Prentis blog

Millions of us are trapped in low-paid, insecure jobs and failing to benefit from the so-called economic recoveryRead more…

Dec 16, 2014Dave Prentis blog

Zero-hours shop workers need some Christmas cheer too

Dec 16, 2014By Touchstone blog

With Christmas bargains on offer and the January sales around the corner, this is the busiest time of the year on the high street. It’s also the time when those working in shops are under enormous pressure to keep the shelves stacked and to share the Christmas cheer. But how often do we spare…Read more…

Dec 16, 2014Touchstone blog

You heard it here first: Labour-Conservative pact after 2015 election

Dec 16, 2014By The Workers United

I predict that a Labour-Conservative pact will be the outcome of the May election.They agree on a raft of key issues which would rule out coalitions with smaller parties:
keeping the unionstaying in…Read more…

Dec 16, 2014The Workers United

Migration: putting tackling exploitation first

Dec 15, 2014By Touchstone blog

Labour leader Ed Miliband announced today that he wants to address a concern that unions have been raising about migration: its use by unscrupulous employers (and, indeed, any employer who thinks they can get away with it) to cut their labour costs by undermining previous terms and conditions. The…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Touchstone blog

Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down

Dec 15, 2014By John's Labour blog

Today I was driving solo back to London from a difficult but I think constructive hearing in Cambridge and I heard this record for the first time in years on “Absolute Radio 1980s”. Turn volume up to maximum and sing-a-long time. This is a fantastic so…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014John's Labour blog

Time to pick ourselves up

Dec 15, 2014By Jon's union blog

The advent of, well, advent doesn’t spell a reduced workload in local government – on the contrary, next year’s budget proposals are emerging in local authorities up and down the country and – particularly in the deprived areas which this Government targets for the greatest reductions – things look…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Jon's union blog

The Benefit Cap: is it worthwhile?

Dec 15, 2014By Touchstone blog

The Department for Work and Pensions has just published their evaluation of the impact of the Benefit Cap in its first year. The Cap is a limit to the maximum amount of working age benefits a family can receive – for families with children, £500 a month. How has the policy fared? The…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Touchstone blog

Breaking the link between funding and social needs – local government finance

Dec 15, 2014By Martin Wicks

The funding of local government has been notoriously complicated, subject as it has been to constant changes by governments in the methods of funding. However, since 1929 “it has been used to some degree to promote equalisation – that is, to ensure that the funding available to local authorities…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Martin Wicks

Lima blog #6: Unions must influence country commitments

Dec 15, 2014By Touchstone blog

In solidarity and shared purpose, the international trade union delegation and its Peruvian hosts worked their socks off inside the Lima climate conference.  Outside it, the Peoples Summit enriched the city centre, and 20,000 marched on the UN for climate justice. But the conference itself largely…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Touchstone blog

UNISON Poll reveal predictable results in response to mass outsourcing

Dec 15, 2014By Barnet UNISON

Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn In the wake of Barnet “Commissioning” Councils plans to outsource 81% of the current workforce Barnet UNISON organised a poll of its members.

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Dec 15, 2014Barnet UNISON

Barnet UNISON e NEWS 15 December 2014

Dec 15, 2014By Barnet UNISON

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Dec 15, 2014Barnet UNISON

#DecentJobsWeek: Too poor to be off sick

Dec 15, 2014By Touchstone blog

Until recently all of us assumed that when we are off sick we would still be paid, whether through a sick pay scheme negotiated by a trade union, through a company sick pay policy or, in the absence of these, through statutory sick pay (SSP). This seem…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Touchstone blog

Women who flee sexual violence abroad need rights in the UK

Dec 15, 2014By Touchstone blog

This week sees the start of a campaign by the Women’s Asylum Charter whose 350 supporters include the TUC, ASLEF Women’s Committee, GMB, NAPO, NASUWT, NUT, PCS Women’s Forum and Unison.  In supporting this Charter, the TUC and its member unions are standing up for the rights of women who come to…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014Touchstone blog

Police Chief disregards compelling evidence

Dec 15, 2014By UNISON Active

Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, writes in today’s Guardian and calls for ‘radical structural reform’ to deal with the impact of Government funding cuts. His solution…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014UNISON Active

UNION BUSTING BY UK PUBLIC SERVICES PROVIDERS

Dec 15, 2014By John's Labour blog

The motion below on Union Busting has been sent to by UNISON Housing Association branch to next year’s Greater London Regional Council AGM in February 2014. If it is passed it will also be considered as a regional motion for the National Delegate Confe…Read more…

Dec 15, 2014John's Labour blog

Class Action and stopping the endless drip, drip of corporate fraud

Dec 14, 2014By John's Labour blog

A very good article by lawyer Katherine Dandy  on Class Actions in Pension Insight. I have added this comment to the on-line site.

“You make a lot of sense Katherine. There is also a wider governance point that Trustees should consider.
It is n…Read more…

Dec 14, 2014John's Labour blog
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