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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Bloggers anonymous...?

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I blog in order to share my views and to let people know what I am doing. It’s part of accountability. I have little admiration for those...
Friday, June 26, 2015

It's still about pay

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The news that the Association of Colleges (AoC) (the national employers' organisation for the Further Education sector) has made a 0% pa...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Solidarity with London Met UNISON

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http://www.londonmetunison.org.uk/2015/06/ten-ways-to-support-our-strike-on-25th-june/ UNISON members at London Metropolitan University are ...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

If you marched against austerity on 20 June (or if you wished you could) - now support Jeremy Corbyn

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Yesterday’s marches against austerity were a timely and appropriate response to the election of the most reactionary Government of our lif...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

On unity and the left in UNISON in the run up to the General Secretary election

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‎As much as delegates at UNISON Conferences may express disappointment at perceived shortcomings of the Union leadership, delegates on the l...

Where next for the UNISON NEC?

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‎As delegates stream away from the Conference Centre after the close of Conference on a Friday afternoon, the National Executive Council are...

How shall we reclaim our Conference?

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Before UNISON Conference I expressed my disappointment about the way in which Conference has evolved over the past twenty years. I also ...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

What future for UNISON?

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The delegate from Brighton and Hove who spoke against an inoffensive motion on public services from the Northern Region on the grounds that...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

You can't have everything...

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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 i...
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Local Government Pay - shall we now have "unity" after the Special Local Government Conference?

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As diligent readers of this blog will recollect, UNISON members in Local Government held a Special Service Group Conference in March at whi...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

UNISON Conference venue sacks UNISON activist - how shall we respond?

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It’s odd to be preparing for the start of a UNISON National Conference at  a Conference Centre which not only does not recognise trade unio...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Online support for Motion 106

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Just a quick note to encourage readers of this blog to have a look at the special Motion 106 blog which has been set up to encourage s...

The decline of UNISON Conference?

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‎Tomorrow I shall travel to my twenty fourth consecutive Annual Conference of my trade union. This century UNISON Conference has become less...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

UNISON Probation strike action suspended

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http://www.unison.org.uk/news/probation-strike-action-suspended I was going to blog a message of solidarity to our members of UNISON in the ...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Four things that the UNISON NEC election results tell us

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What do the results of UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) election tell us? First, that we had 1.24 million full members at the...

I'm back...

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‎I've been narrowly re-elected to UNISON's National Executive Council, with 51.8% of the vote (but on a turnout of just 6.2%). I...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Cometh the hour

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‎Jeremy Corbyn has been as consistent as he has been persistent in thirty two years in Parliament as a socialist advocate for working people...
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Standing still to stand still?

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https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/trade-union-statistics-2014 The neither-good-nor-bad news is that UK trade union membership has bee...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The choices we face?

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‎I was pleased to be able to join a determined march through Barnet's unseasonable weather in support of today's strike against priv...
Monday, June 01, 2015

Solidarity with Barnet strikers

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http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/?q=node/1579 Hundreds of UNISON members in the North London borough of Barnet are striking today and tomo...