(You never know what ripples a visit by a branch convenor could make in your workplace!) Com-Unison is the first in what will hopefully be a bi-monthly or quarterly newsletter from convenors. However, it’s success largely depends upon members contacting us with a … Continue reading…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Leader’s speech to Labour Conference #Lab15
Despite being a delegate (and in theory having a reserved seat) there was still a massive queue for us to get in for the “Leader’s speech”.
The atmosphere in the hall itself was one of anticipation and a genuine curiosity about what Jeremy would say a…Read more…
Unison Branch Executive Nomination For General Secretary 2015
The branch Executive Committee of 16 September 2015 voted to endorse Heather Wakefield as their preferred candidate for the Unison General Secretary election.Read more…
TUC Congress 2015: Monday
Apologies for lateness but this is a snapshot of day 2 of last weeks TUC Congress (Monday) from a UNISON delegates point of view.
Our first Congress guest speaker was John Bercow MP, the Speaker of the House of Commons (and of course a Conservat…Read more…
Personal Injury Settlements July & August 2015
For July 2015, members in the region received £296,955.60 in compensation for personal injury payments. Unfortuantely, nothing for members of this branch. During August, members in the region received £147,522.12 and members of this branch £5,081. It always pays to … Continue reading →Read more…
“Unison has done so much for working women”
UNISON’s President Wendy Nichols has responded below to a bizarre (and “untrue”) attack on the union in the Guardian last week.
When I think of all the very strong and influential women in UNISON the idea that they are being “side lined” is fran…Read more…
The Housing Crisis (and what to do about it) TUC Congress 2015
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Stop the Trade Union Bill – Stop the Tories causing industrial mayhem
The Government will on Monday (14 September 2015) publish a Parliamentary bill that will attack trade unions ability to defend and representative their members.
This is probably one of the most pointless and even spiteful pieces of anti-trade union l…Read more…
Workers’ Capital Conference 2015
Yesterday was the first day of the 2015 Workers’ Capital Conference, which this year is being held in London and hosted by the International Transport Federation (ITF). This global conference of union pension activists was organised by the Internationa…Read more…
UNISON NEC nominates Dave Prentis as candidate for General Secretary 2015
Nominations opened last week for the election of Unison’s next General Secretary.
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of UNISON met on Wednesday and voted overwhelmingly(2:1) to nominate and re-elect Dave Prentis.
The NEC is the Parliament of…Read more…
Campaign to Elect Dave Prentis: Fundraiser London Wed 2 September 2015
This fund raiser hosted by Kevin Maguire (“Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror & TV pundit”) will take place tomorrow – Wednesday 2 September.
From 6.30pm at “The Parcel Yard, Kings Cross Station, London, N1 9AL.”
Tickets £5 each. Read more…
Dave Prentis – UNISON General Secretary election 2015
Just as the Labour Leadership election is coming to a close there is another important Labour Movement contest for 1.3 million UNISON members. The 5 yearly election of our General Secretary (GS).
I am supporting Dave Prentis to be re-elected as …Read more…
Evidence from the UNISON Housing Associations Branch to the Select Committee
“We are a London-based branch of the national trade union UNISON, which organises workers providing public services.
We organise over 3,000 workers across Greater London who are employed by housing associations and are recognised by most of the G…Read more…
Murad Qureshi Standing up for City & East
‘We need an experienced City and East representative like Murad, who can hit the ground running. With his strong track record of effectively holding the London Mayor to account, he offers all the people of East London a campaigning GLA member who will …Read more…
UNISON Champion – June Poole RIP
I was shocked to hear the sad news that UNISON stalwart, June Poole, has passed away after a short illness. We were supposed to meet yesterday at the UNISON centre in London for a Board meeting of the Welfare Trustees.This meeting was cancelled out of …Read more…
UNISON Capital Stewards Website
I have just signed into the new UNISON website for Capital Stewards and will start posting some links and articiles over the next few days. The site is currently only for UNISON activists and is password protected. If you are a UNISON pension trustee o…Read more…
UNISON supports Jeremy Corbyn & Angela Eagle in Leadership elections
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Beware of Shapeshifters & Outsourcery: Protecting public services and the public purse – APSE seminar
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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis: My 3 Pledges to you
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NDC Conference Glasgow 16-19 June2015
A summary of this year’s events – NDC Summary Report Read more…