Today (Tuesday 17 June) was day one of the UNISON National Delegate Conference 2025, which is taking place in the ACC, Liverpool. This is certainly the largest trade union conference in the UK, if not Europe, with over 2,000 delegates and visitor…Read more…
Trade Union Congress Delegate 2023
Today I received my credentials as a UNISON delegate to this year’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Liverpool next month. I am speaking in a pension fringe on Collective Defined Contributions schemes and will hopefully get involved on other pension,…Read more…
Newham Pension Committee – 27 July 2022
A really constructive & well chaired meeting. Cllr Dr Rohit K Dasgupta first meeting as Chair. 100% agree that we need to thank @NareserOsei for her great work as previous chair (and our officers and advisors)Read more…
Committee Workers Capital (CWC) online Conference 2020 – The Road Ahead
I logged on this evening to the first session of the Conference. The CWC describes itself on its website “WorkersCapital” “With over 700 participants from 25 different countries, the Committee on Workers’ Capital is an internatio…Read more…
Thousands will suffer in retirement due to government’s public sector exit-payment cap
Ministers knew ordinary workers would be affected but they ploughed on regardless
The article Thousands will suffer in retirement due to government’s public sector exit-payment cap first…Read more…
Vote for Worker Board Members at Walmart AGM for better Governance and to tackle Covid-19 pandemic
Today I took part as a pension trustee in a online seminar with USA Walmart workers and their trade union, about governance and the abysmal response of the retail giant Walmart to the Covid-19 emergency.
Their workers spoke about the dangerously confu…Read more…
High Court state pension judgment is terrible blow
Campaign will go on, to seek justice
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Pension costs – are they transparent enough?
UNISON urges members to fill in questionnaire to help gather evidence for parliamentary inquiry, ending on 6 September
The article Pension costs – are they transparent enough? first appeared on the…Read more…
Inferior university pension plans must not become the norm
New pension schemes will leave staff struggling to plan for retirement and significantly worse off in their old age
The article Inferior university pension plans must not become the norm first…Read more…
Southampton university staff celebrate pensions win
Current staff to keep final salary pensions after strong campaign against proposals to change them – though scheme will be closed to new non-academic staff from 2019
The article Southampton…Read more…
‘Address this unfairness’ call
Sharon McGeough-Adams worked for nearly four decades at HSBC and hardly had a day off. Despite having to live with Crohn’s disease when she left the bank in 2012, she looked forward to a…Read more…
Blog: United Utilities workers are on strike to defend their right to a fair pension
These attacks are completely unwarranted. In the past five full financial years, United Utilities has earned £1.6 billion in profits, whilst over a billion was paid out in shareholder dividends over…Read more…
Pension age victory
Pension changes, affecting approximately 4,500 employees of the States of Guernsey that would have seen the pension age for some workers rising from 65 to 70, have been scrapped after Unite members…Read more…
Breakthrough in the BHS pension saga
Philip Green has agreed to pay £363 million of his own money to plug the massive hole in BHS’ pension scheme, resulting from his time as owner of the high street retailer. This settlement comes after…Read more…
Rising inequality helps explain Trump and Brexit
While I hope that the United States will not elect Trump to be their President tomorrow, I was
fascinated to read the statement below at a recent Newham Council Investment and Accounts committee.
“Even if Trump loses, the anti-Establishment, anti-tra…Read more…
What to do if you are a trade unionist with a pension manager that attacks you?
Check out another great post by Tom P
“Ahh…. Fidelity, the lure of right-wing British politics is just too strong for you isn’t it?
I’ve blogged previously about the latest Fidelity link to the Tories – their involvement with the Leaders Gro…Read more…
Annuity resales – at last someone in government has found the brake pedal
After a headlong rush into so-called pensions freedom, someone responsible for pensions policy in government appears to have found the brake pedal. Tucked away in the Budget announcements was the news that attempts to launch a secondary annuity market …Read more…
Workers arrested and sacked during collective bargaining for unpaid social welfare benefits
It’s been a month since workers from a Shenzhen based factory started requesting the factory to pay back workers’ pension and other social security benefits. Workers staged a strike shortly after the…Read more…
AMNT stall at Workplace Pensions Live 2015
On Thursday I went for a flying visit to Edgbaston, Birmingham to take part in a panel on the second day of Workplace Pensions conference.
The theme of the panel was “View from the coalfield – This session will explore the role of unions on trustee bo…Read more…
A quick glimpse into the 2014 China migrant workers’ report: over 60% don’t have employment contracts
China’s bureau of statistics published the latest migrant workers’ report in late April. Migrant workers are the crucial contributors to the growth of China’s manufacturing and services industries,…Read more…