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“Mike Bassett did a better job as bloody England manager than David Cameron has as Prime Minister” Ricky Tomlinson tells me as he pauses for photos with union members at UNISON’s annual conference in Liverpool. Ricky’s just delivered a…
Unison General Secretary Dave Prentis set out his tests for continuing to support Labour this afternoon. Speaking at their conference in Liverpool, Prentis said: For too long we’ve built the careers of Labour politicians, only to be let…
A glance at the agenda for our union's annual conference, starting today in Liverpool, shows the sheer breadth of the damage that this Tory-led coalition is wreaking on its citizens. Our union, our members, and the services that they…
“I’ve worked as a home carer for 15 years. Things have to change but not at the expense of clients. It’s appalling the level of care they receive now. No home cooked meals, no time to chat. More clients getting 15 minute visits. As you…
Unison have today called for the Living Wage to become the Minimum Wage in all of Britain's schools. The union, which represents many school support staff (including catering workers, teaching assistants, caretakers, school administrators…
Subscribers to our morning email get the best of LabourList – including the Media and blog round up – every weekday morning. If you were a subscriber you would have already received this in your inbox. You can sign up here. Miliband says…
The Olympic opening ceremony rightly celebrated the NHS in all its glory. as a national treasure and as something we need to fight for. More than 600 nurses and NHS staff were included in the spectacle on the insistence of director, Danny…
Decent employers know that it makes sense to give trade union reps time off in order to represent workers, negotiate with employers and attend meetings with managers – among a raft of other things. A widespread practise, it was not…
After a few weeks of low level acrimony - it seems, at long last, like we may finally be able to put Progress vs GMB/Unison/ASLEF et al row to bed. And not before time - with the banking sector following the media as the latest…
A joint post by Dave Prentis, UNISON general secretary and Neville Lawrence who spoke at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth today. Neville Lawrence: Following the tragic incident of the racist murder of my son, Stephen, every door…
The link between trade unions like UNISON and the Labour Party is often described as historic. That is true in the sense that the relationship goes back a long way, but every now and then there comes a moment when people once again learn…
Yesterday’s unemployment figures make grim reading: the last quarter has seen 39,000 public sector jobs cut, bringing public sector employment to its lowest point since 2003, small overall reductions in unemployment do little to mask the…
