On Thursday evening (after another Labour Movement event) I went with UNISON Labour Link colleagues, to a fundraiser for the branch chair of our London Voluntary Organisations branch (Vol Orgs), Marcela Benedetti. Marcela is the Labour Cand…Read more…
UNISON Survey on the charging of DBS checks to workers closes next Friday 4 August 2023
This is incredible to many people (myself included) that some employers charge their workers the cost of having a DBS check? These are mostly low paid care workers doing difficult jobs and some of them work for different employers, all of whom wa…Read more…
UNISON Special Labour Link National Forum 2021 Motion 8: Charity Contracts – Race to the Bottom
This is the motion and my speech at last Saturday’s (3.7.21) UNISON Special Labour Link National Forum meeting, moving this Greater London motion 8 about the Volunteer sector and the race to the bottom with regard to staff terms and conditions an…Read more…