tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86561748687656319902024-03-14T02:57:07.757+00:00UNISON ActiveThe first port of call for rank and file UNISON news and activities.UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comBlogger4435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-91457888716749269472022-02-03T17:50:00.001+00:002022-02-04T09:22:14.901+00:00Build real lay control and local organisation, not power-play at the top<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJyaO9EFFpQcXg2RGE_yyzlHjK-re8vaXAkqZ9-4zPKnWmgyD9PZiviTRnYcFVAtwtH5zgr97WIi7L5bB0ctgeCZWffq46K1U0b1MN0wVKPPazvyAnNH4SZYTBZ84j8EGentRgn0EQSezNJUV1ZOEM2faGx-452bZa7gexbsxZSElrUOZzM8kGkTbUXQ=s495" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="495" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJyaO9EFFpQcXg2RGE_yyzlHjK-re8vaXAkqZ9-4zPKnWmgyD9PZiviTRnYcFVAtwtH5zgr97WIi7L5bB0ctgeCZWffq46K1U0b1MN0wVKPPazvyAnNH4SZYTBZ84j8EGentRgn0EQSezNJUV1ZOEM2faGx-452bZa7gexbsxZSElrUOZzM8kGkTbUXQ=w228-h173" width="228" /></a></div><p>With the division, and what looks like organising stagnation, in UNISON’s lay national executive (NEC) following the election of a majority running under the Time for Real Change (TFRC) ticket, it is a good time to look at what exactly lay control is, its history and how that works in partnership with the full-time structures. <br /><br />It certainly wasn’t intended to centre on paying for various legal opinions to try to justify TFRC attempts to meddle with National Conference rule decisions. There may be legal loopholes but there’s also the spirit of what the supreme lay Conference intended – and Conference is the place to address that. <br /><br />That of course will affect our current troubles at the top. Our lay UNISON President has just been sacked from his job and that will no doubt play out in the rules controversy and a tribunal one assumes. But difficult that is for all concerned (with members affected across the issue it seems) it doesn’t so far alter the political situation on the NEC.</p><p>No matter what the politics are, lay control surely shouldn’t be about a union of 80% women, a union that pioneered self-organisation to recognise and promote our diversity, using a TFRC ticket to replace an expected low paid woman president and most national committee chairs with white males. It’s worth remembering that some so-called ‘left’ groups historically opposed self-organisation of structurally disadvantaged groups. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p><p>It shouldn’t be about NEC meetings dominated by internal wranglings as opposed to organisational challenges on Covid, pay, pensions or whatever else really matters to members. <br /><br />And off course staff should be accountable, but it shouldn’t be about a power-play with them or the newly elected general secretary. It also shouldn’t be about replicating bigstyle the very problems of previous factions that TFRC says it is challenging. <br /><br />There will of course always be factions, formal or otherwise - and at times beholden to outside organisations - in any structure, but the secret is to look outwards, debate, and where possible take people with you. <br /><br />Lay control is the banner TFRC is campaigning under and rightly so. But lay control is more than just winning a majority on the NEC and bashing votes through. That’s just a win for a particular faction. It doesn’t make for unity of purpose. They happen to be lay members but it’s not necessarily what we intended by lay control. <br /><br />To fully address lay control, we need to look at what it actually is, how it came about in UNISON and how we protect and promote it. <br /><br /><b>Touchstones of the new union:</b><br /> For many, the principles of lay member control, involvement and organisation were the touchstones in the creation of UNISON. <br /><br />In the years up to inauguration in 1993, the three merging unions thrashed out what the new union would look like. Respecting our various traditions wasn’t always easy, but we agreed on structures that would enhance and embed that lay control, involvement and organisation. <br /><br /><b>Lay control: </b><br /> We embedded the lay control in our National Delegate Conference, the union’s supreme policy-making body made up of reps from hundreds of local branches. Made up of activists who have daily contact with members (and take the flak on a daily basis) and deliver for the union on the front-line. They are the activists who deal with negotiations, grievances, disciplinaries, with local and often critical campaigns, and who are expected to deliver locally on national campaigns. <br /><br />Like it or not, their Conference decisions – often made through lengthy debate - are supreme and need to be respected, perhaps not fiddled with by varying legal opinions. <br /><br />We recognised the importance of lay and full-time partnership. We created rules that balance the roles and responsibilities of an elected lay national executive and an elected full-time general secretary. Both of these roles can only be effective if mutually respected. <br /><br /><b>Lay involvement: </b><br /> We embedded involvement with structures lay committees for issues like bargaining, education, communications and health and safety at branch, nation/regional and UK level. But here we fell down. <br /><br />Many regional committees gradually vanished due to lack of participation. The ‘hands-on’ culture dissipated as we drifted into involvement stopping at the door of the committee room. Involvement became seen as sitting through meetings – all too often more as spectators than participants. <br /><br />Pressures fell onto fewer lay activists who actually committed to involvement. In effect, lay involvement descended into some lay committees making decisions (or not) and handing that over to ‘someone’ to enact. It is easy then to hide from the decisions and blame the leaders or full-timers. <br /><br />The membership profile hasn’t helped with so many public services now outsourced. Branches can be dealing with many employers (hundreds in some cases) where activists cannot get the facilities to involve themselves in wider union activities. The issue is recognised each year at Conference but solutions are harder to come by. <br /><br />Some areas have tried opening up systems to include wider and open activists’ events to encourage informal involvement especially of low paid women. National and local education initiatives have tried to facilitate involvement of under-represented groups. But structural barriers to involvement remain a challenge. <br /><br /><b>Lay organisation: </b><br /> Now here we had a big challenge and one we took years to recognise, let alone address. It would be naïve to deny that some elements in the full-time structures were highly suspicious of this and didn’t help. But the lay structures didn’t help either. Too often branches modelled themselves on a servicing basis. We were becoming advocates not organisers. We were doing things <i>for</i> members but not <i>with</i> members. <br /><br />We became technocrats on local procedures rather than agitators. At the worst end, we became paternalistic and actively resisted member involvement. Frankly, with many notable exceptions, there were too many branch officers in lifetime sinecures whose main organising objective was re-election. <br /><br />We were becoming an insurance company. We even ran a national campaign that underlined that with the slogan “Essential cover wherever you work”. <br /><br />The advent of austerity and the 2010 Tory/Lib Dem election victory spurred a range of lay initiatives - some of them grass roots and cross-region - to build a more organising culture. The issues identified have emerged in the mainstream of the union and there is now a far more organisational input into learning and things like branch assessments. <br /><br />Change is there, and being developed by initiatives like the general secretary’s drive for a UNISON college and targeted branch resources, but a huge challenge remains. <br /><b><br />Organising lessons:</b><br /> Recent pay ballots are a stark reminder that lofty voices from the top, delegates backing decisions that don’t realistically reflect where their membership is due to fear of appearing ‘soft’, glossy campaigns and, more recently, a smattering of lecturing and revolutionary fervour all amount to nothing but embarrassment if we can’t deliver on the ground. <br /><br />Of course, the Tory 50% threshold is disgraceful and an intended mountain to climb, along with the deliberately obstructive postal requirement in an age when people no longer routinely visit a pillar box. But we have some evidence that it can be done. <br /><br />The imaginative Scotland local government pay ballot, based on local area ballots, tried to address the issue. While still not resulting in action – albeit with a slightly improved offer - it did throw up an interesting picture of where local organisation was delivering with the threshold met and a vote for action, and where there were (sometimes understandable) lessons to be learned. Lessons that should also be learned in the Higher Education dispute. <br /><br />Those lessons would be well taken on by the NEC. Instead of usurping our well-thought-out democracy and diversity for – let’s be honest - factional rather than purely ‘lay control’ ends. Our lay leadership (for that’s what TFRC now is no matter how uncomfortable it may make them) should perhaps seek common ground across a broad progressive left to reach out in the real world to listen to branches. <br /><br />For that, they need to stop blaming someone else for all ills and take responsibility for the power they have won. They need to make it safe for branches to reflect membership views as they see them, learn the messages that would most resonate with workers on the ground, respect the problems branches may face in mobilising members and, where needed, support, address and rebuild local organising cultures. </p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-77318830431064577982022-01-31T08:04:00.000+00:002022-02-03T17:56:31.010+00:00Damaging action behind TFRC rhetoric<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Instead of debating and confronting the challenges of building confidence in the Local Government pay ballot, we have had to sit through engineered attacks on staff and the undermining of our own democratic processes for changing rules. <br /><br />Despite TFRC’s fine words like “member led” and “union democracy”, I cannot for the life of me see where the interests of our members are being served. Their stated aims may seem to be something we can all sign up to, but what I am witnessing is the self-serving and damaging action behind that rhetoric. <p></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br />We all want better pay for our public service workers; and better funding for the NHS, local government and other public services. We all want a member led union, with greater lay democracy, an end to discrimination towards all equalities groups and to challenge the hostile environment for our migrant workers and refugees. We all want a more equal, socially just society. I and most of the activists I know have been working for that for most of our adult lives through our union and political activism. <br /><br />However, look beyond the snappy catch phrases, and you realise that you don’t actually know what it is TFRC want to do in our union to achieve these ends for our members. That, to them, a “lay led” union doesn’t mean respecting the rules and policies that come from the National Delegate Conference, voted on by our lay membership. That it doesn’t mean finding out what our members want and finding ways to organise and engage with them in partnership with the elected General Secretary and the staff. <br /><br />I have been an NEC member for almost five years. Like others of my Scotland NEC colleagues, I am unaligned with any faction. We have challenged the previous NEC leadership, and we have won, through argument, NEC agreement to look at some of the processes to make them more transparent. All the while I have had the interests of the members in Scotland at the forefront of my mind, especially women members and especially the low paid women who have been on the frontline of dealing with COVID. <br /><br />When the leadership of the NEC changed, I hoped that we would see some changes for the better; that it might allow for a more open, transparent and inclusive leadership, where everyone’s contribution was valued and where we could all work together for the benefit of our members, finding ways to genuinely engage all our members with their union. <br /><br />We had our new General Secretary, Christina McAnea, and despite the hype from some, I am clear that she is not a “continuity” leader. I had hoped that the NEC could work in genuine partnership with Christina and the staff, to address the criticisms of the past, a process which, in my view had already begun. <br /><br />I was doomed to bitter disappointment. Things are going from bad to worse, with most of the same tactics so vehemently criticised by the TFRC in the past, now embraced by the new faction. We see the same building of power bases and cliques, excluding those with expertise who don’t align themselves with the TFRC faction. <br /><br />We see attempts to undermine the very lay democracy that TFRC purports to espouse, with the passing of motions which two out of three legal opinions advise are in breach of UNISON rules; and worst of all, we see the bullying and harassment of staff. We have become like the very employers we most criticise, with constant threats to staff of being sued for non-compliance. <br /><br />So although the rhetoric has been all about getting back to being a member led union, there is precious little evidence that the “members” referred to are more than the TFRC members on the NEC. There is precious little evidence that the TFRC faction is making any attempt to start where our members are and build from there. Our very poor turnout in the Local Government pay ballot would surely tell us that. <br /><br />Those of us who have followed the outcome of ballots in the years since the latest (anti-) Trade Union Act know that smaller, targeted ballots have a much higher chance of meeting the 50% threshold for strike action. We know that we are still a long way from building members’ confidence for wide-scale action, particularly after two years of COVID. We know that members care about pay, that they are angry, but also that many are not in a place to vote for strikes or to trust in collective action. These are arguments still to be won by patient organising and engagement. <br /><br />What we need is an organising agenda that is inclusive of the whole of the leadership including those with different affiliations or none and in partnership with the General Secretary and staff. There is such excellent work done by staff to further UNISON’s policies agreed at NDC and huge amounts of knowledge and expertise amongst both staff and lay members. <br /><br />But that is not what is happening and it is a massive opportunity missed. What I see is the NEC lay leadership pushing its own agenda because it can. What I am witnessing is much worse than what went before, especially when you look at its treatment of the staff and its cavalier attitude to our union’s rule book. <br /><br />I don’t know who said “Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Was it one of George Orwell’s pigs? Anyway it feels to me that this is what we are seeing here. <br /><br />Instead of taking the opportunity to engage with the whole of the NEC to make the arguments for what they are trying to achieve and how it will benefit our members; instead of listening to dissenting voices and countering them with coherent arguments and genuine debate, TFRC has chosen to railroad through decisions by strength of numbers. <br /><br />It’s both arrogant and divisive. It makes no effort to take the rest of us with them and it leaves us feeling powerless to represent our members’ interests. That has never happened before, and when it is the self-described “left” faction that is taking this approach, you have to ask whose interests they are serving.<br /><i><br />Kate Ramsden </i><p></p><p></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-89954262605959804192022-01-29T09:34:00.000+00:002022-02-03T17:57:10.260+00:00Local Government Pay Campaign - What a Shambles<p style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.2pt; margin: 0cm;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgStDd7fErgWlky2X_pCk5JEkal_m20tUeWVIT9XeQU4IPRdLozg3L97JsoKMc4b_n90b4bsLX4b7-4qAt0L41AtDpzxMbpS4_bPgJ2060HOLLfb_wcNWukplgD9j6uGQy9j4eAIUfOq8PlAREryxF5kZWnWvOHBqOsG7zbmc48S-tndF-imVIK4K660g=s745" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="745" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgStDd7fErgWlky2X_pCk5JEkal_m20tUeWVIT9XeQU4IPRdLozg3L97JsoKMc4b_n90b4bsLX4b7-4qAt0L41AtDpzxMbpS4_bPgJ2060HOLLfb_wcNWukplgD9j6uGQy9j4eAIUfOq8PlAREryxF5kZWnWvOHBqOsG7zbmc48S-tndF-imVIK4K660g=w232-h131" width="232" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">'</span>Gizza Job' - the famous words of Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff rang true for so many in 1980s Thatcher’s Britain. Joblessness and unemployment rife and job insecurity endemic as workers were treated as collateral damage in the monetarist reshaping of the economy.<br /><br />Fast forward to the 2020s and for many those issues of job insecurity and risk of unemployment has not gone away. The difference now is the claim that there are jobs aplenty for anyone who wants one. Of course, this analysis fails to take into account the issues of under-employment, the mismatch of skills to the jobs market and the flagrant attempts by employers to avoid obligations to their workers; instead, the gig economy is alive and kicking without any semblance of contractual obligations to workers. <br /><blockquote><i>"The paltry 1.75% pay increase for local government was highly predictable. A lesson not yet learned is that rhetoric within the walls of UNISON HQ and the parallel universe of the ultra left will not solve the pay crisis" </i></blockquote><p>The results of these changes can now be seen in the volume of worker movements, exacerbated by the pandemic, many are leaping to the next job seeking better pay to compensate for their otherwise poor conditions of employment. This can only be described as a jobs crisis. But it is not limited to the private sector.<br /><br />Within the public sector it looks like a pay ‘rise’ of 1.75% will land on council workers. This is against the context of a reported shortage of around 170,000 – 190,000 care workers, with 105,000 in England alone. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>The UK is short of 100,000 HGV drivers, an issue now impacting on councils delivering services such as refuse collections; so too driver jobs for special educational needs are forcing councils to pay more than double for agency drivers to fill the gaps left by their inability to recruit to these jobs. And it is not just frontline workers. Local councils face a crisis in financial managers and auditors, an issue of risk to the very heart of local democracy and good financial governance. <br /><br />Vacancies in cleaning and catering services are set to increase by a further 9% in the coming year, an issue which is evidenced across both public services and the wider economy. With an estimated need for 340,000 new homes each year to address the housing crisis the Construction Industry Training Board estimates they would need an annual recruitment rate to 43,000 jobs for construction workers to meet the ongoing demands for skilled workers. <br /><br />The public sector, and local government in particular, may well be feeling the impacts of employment trends that are being witnessed across the economy, but they are not innocent bystanders in this jobs crisis. Years of dogma, attaching public services to outsourced contracts and arms-length commissioning has undermined some of the fundamental benefits of public service work. <br /><br />The pay has never been great but job security and access to a reasonable pension were considered benefits to compensate in public sector work. Both have been lost as pensions too have been sacrificed. The slow decline of this job security, and pensions, has been made all the worse by austerity, which saw local councils lose over 800,000 jobs. Sudden and dramatic decreases in the workforce have left councils hollowed out, with no ability to coach, mentor and train the next generation of public service workers.<br /><br />When it comes to recruiting new talent to local councils there are bleak prospects for success. The elephant in the room is clearly pay. Not only are councils losing out to the private sector but they are losing out to other parts of the public sector; where pay and conditions have been markedly higher. Care workers are reliant on food banks as the failed market model keeps its grip on social care services; so it is hardly surprising that care workers opt for a job in Tesco with less stress and more pay. Cleaners in local government earn significantly less than those in the NHS so who are they likely to choose to work for? As to construction - with a national shortage of workers driving up wages - why would anyone choose a role in social housing repairs and maintenance for half the market rate for their skills? <br /><br />The paltry 1.75% pay increase for local government was highly predictable. A lesson not yet learned is that rhetoric within the walls of UNISON HQ and the parallel universe of the ultra left will not solve the pay crisis. Building a campaign is hard work and it needs to be one that takes the broader UNISON membership with us - not a hectoring and lecturing political missive from those who deem to know best what is good for our members. <br /><br />Our members talk to each other in terms of their gas bills, their rent, the cost of school uniforms; they don’t need a lecture on how capitalism works from those comfortably cocooned in white collar paid facility time. They live and breathe the consequences so let’s stop patting our members on the head.<br /><br />The crisis we face in public sector jobs, including recruitment, retention and pay needed to be part of the pay campaign; not just convincing the government and employers but the public too. Of all years to push through on local government pay this had to be it. The public cheered our care workers and bincrews, and the school dinners that kept going for key worker kids. Financially the better-than-expected settlement for councils, with some marginal overpayment of covid relief that will not be available in future years, and the extra money for social care, left the employers refusal to increase the pay offer on the grounds of empty coffers exposed. This of all years would have perhaps been the most affordable year to push through a decent rise. </p><p></p><blockquote>"Perhaps UNISON members need to think hard about where and to what
factions they cast their votes in the forthcoming SGE elections. Empty
vessels make the most noise."</blockquote>What we now face is 1.75% as a pay award against inflation currently at 5.6% with predictions that this could rise to 7% by the summer. <p></p><p>Energy price increases will push whole swathes of our local government members into further fuel poverty. Housing is unaffordable even for those who may view themselves as ‘reasonably’ well paid. The unwelcome cherry on the cake is of course a 1.2% increase in National Insurance with the misnomer of this being a social care levy. It is nothing of the sort. This is disastrous for the public purse and for public services.<br /><br />This fallacy of pay suppression is actually increasing costs for local councils. It is more expensive to have a revolving door of recruitment than to value and retain staff in the first place. Lost staff replaced by agency workers is a further expensive false economy. And as to the future sustainability of public services it stands to reason that this cannot be the case when we fail so miserably to address current and future skills shortages, leaving ourselves beholden to the markets. What is more, we condemn too many public service workers to a life whereby they are reliant on in work benefits; public sector employers are in danger of becoming the scrounger employers who want the state to top up the poverty wages that they choose to pay.<br /><br />Perhaps UNISON members need to think hard about where and to what factions they cast their votes in the forthcoming SGE elections. Empty vessels make the most noise.</p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-21293829314721978682021-10-26T20:08:00.003+01:002021-10-26T20:08:41.884+01:00UNISON GS nails Radio 4's Any Questions<p class="MsoNormal"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu49hCYgThfjJ76YCavfMPeCbdGkfm_eAvwjyzEN-zDt4XHj_ubsLKyYDrNTnvJAif65cceb-fxOwWa4T9CrITtpfeI9d4uVwOV1av1YjpwHUaMkyK71bNI9ulmuS5DT5zy-4x_bA9ukNe/s300/christina2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="300" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu49hCYgThfjJ76YCavfMPeCbdGkfm_eAvwjyzEN-zDt4XHj_ubsLKyYDrNTnvJAif65cceb-fxOwWa4T9CrITtpfeI9d4uVwOV1av1YjpwHUaMkyK71bNI9ulmuS5DT5zy-4x_bA9ukNe/s0/christina2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Last
weekend UNISON General Secretary Christina McAnea made a strong debut on BBC
Radio 4's 'Any Questions' panel discussion. The programme focused on the
upcoming budget with Christina contributing well received answers on NHS
funding, social care, public sector pay and levelling up. Listen here:<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fsounds%2Fplay%2Fm0010nv1&data=04%7C01%7C%7C96c09f7c99ad46257c5308d998ae274d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637708696021243670%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=J4B2V0hwcSKvMZXhuZK7tkziYT3wF1Lc7CUggn90wG4%3D&reserved=0">Any
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UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-80282403507094104642021-10-20T08:53:00.004+01:002021-10-20T08:53:52.317+01:00Turning our back on the world - UNISON NEC disaffiliates from ICTUR<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncr2GsO8IGL7FVVK0dcU4k2lXpGLsriUOmSHxHivxMjk2GJC5pcAUQ7c2wCrdtMcxVSrXl65iEzR6V1-BEJv4H5VYABN1w437i-rk8bKzKV6Xfg6BfPqTHyxKUctxUiYCZ0LuyISE5bWQ/s252/ictur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="252" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncr2GsO8IGL7FVVK0dcU4k2lXpGLsriUOmSHxHivxMjk2GJC5pcAUQ7c2wCrdtMcxVSrXl65iEzR6V1-BEJv4H5VYABN1w437i-rk8bKzKV6Xfg6BfPqTHyxKUctxUiYCZ0LuyISE5bWQ/s0/ictur.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br />On 23 September 2021 the NEC's international committee declined to reaffiliate to the International Centre for Trade Union rights (ICTUR), on cost grounds. <p></p><p>This appalling decision ends over two decades of UNISON support for the London based organisation which defends and extends the rights of trade unions and trade unionists worldwide, including raising awareness of their violations. </p><p><a href="https://www.ictur.org/About.html">https://www.ictur.org/About.html</a></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-76017445013769240002021-10-15T17:22:00.003+01:002022-02-03T17:57:41.469+00:00'Not in our name' - Police & Justice Conference condemns NEC rule breaking<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfO3BIaKfvgVw_7mhpcu1zbPFvypJ5XTvJHVHPjWHyM7sDo4y-XosWRLs_N_t59YRSM7BVWpgaxfO7VE0mrOd5aRsqdusjf09989Qb29JMmOKLJ5NUloKHPru_tjC9-_srb-aypvSZzxLx/s2048/policeconf2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfO3BIaKfvgVw_7mhpcu1zbPFvypJ5XTvJHVHPjWHyM7sDo4y-XosWRLs_N_t59YRSM7BVWpgaxfO7VE0mrOd5aRsqdusjf09989Qb29JMmOKLJ5NUloKHPru_tjC9-_srb-aypvSZzxLx/s320/policeconf2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>UNISON's first in person conference for almost 20 months was held in Brighton over the past two days. <a href="https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2021/10/police-and-justice-delegates-stress-frontline-pandemic-role/">https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2021/10/police-and-justice-delegates-stress-frontline-pandemic-role/</a><br /><br />Police and Justice branch delegates gathered to debate pay, job security, displacement of support staff workers by police officers, the welcome insourcing of a majority of probation staff and other key issues. <br /><br />Notably an emergency motion condemning last week's unconstitutional, unprincipled and unviable decisions by the NEC was carried overwhelmingly. Full text below.<br /><b><br />NOT IN OUR NAME <br /></b><br />Conference, there is great concern following a meeting of our National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Wednesday 6th October 2021. <br /><br />At this meeting resolutions were put forward on the agenda for this meeting and our own legal department made representations suggesting that four of these resolutions were a breach of UNISON rules, unlawful and could possibly bring our union into disrepute. <span><a name='more'></a></span><br />Despite both written advice and then verbal advice at the meeting from our legal department a majority of the NEC passed these resolutions. There is a concern that this now put members of the Police and Justice Sector in a difficult position as the nature of our employment does not allow us to be associated with anything that can be deemed unlawful. This is therefore potentially of particular detriment to UNISON’s Police and Justice members. <br /><br />These resolutions appear to aim to remove powers delegated to our General Secretary, bypass UNISON’s legal department, give the NEC powers over disciplinary and suspension matters and allow members dismissed from their employment to remain a member and hold any office no matter if they have committed a serious offence or gross misconduct. <br /><br />Conference can’t support these resolutions and it is noted the some NEC members have come forward and made a statement condemning these actions. Conference upholds the procedures around our rules established over many years and also supports the status of our democratically elected General Secretary. <br /><br />Conference calls upon the Police and Justice Service group executive to: <br /><br />1. Make UNISON NEC aware this conference on behalf of the Police and Justice Sector members condemns these resolutions as they do not represent the values or views of the Police and Justice Sector membership. <br /><br />2. Communicate with other UNISON sectors and national committees to request their support in condemning these resolutions. <br /><br />3. Reassure by appropriate communication to members of our sector that we are opposed to any action that breaches our rules, makes UNISON act in an unlawful way and may bring Unison into disrepute. <br /><p></p><p><i>Leicestershire Police </i><br /></p><p>See also <a href="https://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2021/10/perceived-wrongs-dont-justify.html">https://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2021/10/perceived-wrongs-dont-justify.html</a><br /></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-16350137383509168682021-10-14T22:26:00.004+01:002021-10-14T22:29:04.060+01:00Why UNISON needs to campaign on Integrated Care Proposals<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvtV1xyRJnJ-iE6qUzgrMGRYbmgC1Ugk88oH3OKc-28JRcGdWhF1swQDUj66lcvMAGFG96lVFmKNj_NKtT6jEPvVlruWDey5NW1_NVeWGEOz-Q3C1z3QRAk7-4wS7tHAMNp0hMNe3yPnk/s448/ICP-logo_Small_new.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="448" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXvtV1xyRJnJ-iE6qUzgrMGRYbmgC1Ugk88oH3OKc-28JRcGdWhF1swQDUj66lcvMAGFG96lVFmKNj_NKtT6jEPvVlruWDey5NW1_NVeWGEOz-Q3C1z3QRAk7-4wS7tHAMNp0hMNe3yPnk/s320/ICP-logo_Small_new.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>On the face of it ICPs or Integrated Care Partnerships (or Services) proposed for England make a lot of sense. Anyone who has looked after an elderly relative or been in a carer role will know the frustrations of care falling between two stools. ‘Who does what?’ is often the question, and beneath a shallow surface, ‘who pays for what?’. But the model is flawed and lacks scrutiny. Like most ‘good ideas’ it has fallen into a bureaucratic framework which means ‘form’ is taking precedence over function.<br /><br />The form in this case is the Health and Care Bill currently at Committee stage in Parliament. Whilst there are always concerns about the role of private companies in NHS provision some have sought to argue that the Bill in fact rolls back some of the damaging privatisation provisions from the 2012 reorganisation of the NHS. <br /><br />A lot will depend on the new bodies who will inherit commissioning from the clinical commissioning groups, but there are few safeguards to prevent increased private sector involvement in NHS service delivery – though CCGs have hardly been the bastions of supporting in-house NHS or local authority services either.<br /><br />At best the Bill is Janus faced. On the one hand it arguably removes some tendering requirements from NHS commissioners – something they have protested has been a costly waste of time – but on the other it could lead to unregulated procurement without tenders. Contracts for Cronies anyone?<span><a name='more'></a></span><br />It also reserves huge powers of intervention to the Secretary of State for Health – this is becoming something of a trade mark in Conservative Government legislation. Think the Localism Act of 2011, which reserved over 150 powers to the Secretary of State for Communities, in an Act that was supposed to devolve more powers to local councils and communities. So, assurances from Government that the Secretary of State would only use the Health and Care Bill powers sparingly, and if absolutely necessary, seems therefore somewhat obtuse. It begs the question why are these reserve powers to the Secretary of State needed? <br /><br />There is also a question about how ‘National’ the NHS will be with over 40 new and very powerful regional bodies; which will involve the grouping up of existing NHS trusts. These new powerhouses of ‘Integrated Care Systems’ or ICSs will undoubtedly hold the keys to the cash tin for providers; and the private sector providers could have a seat at the table. This is likely to make contract awards opaque, with no separation between the judgement of what is ‘best value’ in awarding public money for the performance of a service contract.<br /><br />And where do local councils sit in all of this? Although councils have a seat on these new Boards, they are set up to have only a minor role. Local authorities that ought to have a far greater role in ill-health prevention measures through physical activity programmes, better social care, child support, and other services like housing provisions, parks and local environmental quality - will be very much the junior partners around the table. <br /><br />They have already been told that any new cash for social care is in fact illusory as the new National Insurance increases - dressed up as a hypothecated tax for social care - is in fact nothing of the sort; it is simply a further tax to allow the NHS to catch up on its covid-created backlog. So once again the idea that this great new idea will support social care services – that are already on their knees both financially, and in terms of the human resources needed in the service, is a fundamentally weak assertion.<br /><br />With the narrative around the Bill being ‘this is a good idea’ it will be hard for UNISON to punch through the fluffy language of integration. The big question yet to be answered is how will a Bill that of itself is unable to address the root causes of health inequality – poverty, education, even your post code – change outcomes for those in need of care. The simple answer to that is it probably will not!<span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><p class="x_gmail-dcr-s23rjr" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Anna Rose</i></span></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-882194803295493872021-10-14T22:26:00.002+01:002022-02-03T17:58:06.393+00:00Perceived wrongs don't justify undermining UNISON democracy<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->The NEC meeting on 6<sup>th</sup> October was, for me, a low
point in my entire time as a UNISON activist, as the self styled “Time for Real
Change” faction on the NEC forced through a series of “resolutions” despite independent
legal advice deeming them to be ultra vires or beyond the scope of our powers.
<p class="MsoNormal">On even a cursory reading of the “resolutions” it was clear to
me and to anyone else that reads the rule book, that some were seeking to
change or extend existing rules or were in conflict with the rule book. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A number also had implications for members of UNISON staff
including the General Secretary, who was to be directed “from time to time as
may be necessary” by the presidential team, conveniently forgetting that in
rule it is only the GS that has the authority to act in between meetings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s also worth noting that when it comes to democratic
mandates, the GS was elected by the lay membership on almost twice the turn-out
that many NEC members enjoy.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another gives the presidential team the right to instruct counsel
“through the Union’s legal department or such other solicitor as the
Presidential Team thinks fit” – potentially a fundamental breach of the
Director of Legal Services’ contract of employment and unlawful.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The “resolutions” were sent out by the vice presidents on
the Friday before the NEC meeting on the following Wednesday. They came to NEC
members without any explanatory notes to give the background to the proposed
changes and why they were considered necessary. The moving of the “resolutions”
was even less helpful as it took the form of reading out the text that we all
had in front of us and nothing more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the morning of the NEC we received a further document
which contained independent legal advice on the motions, provided by UNISON to
the vice presidents through their normal processes. This stated that four out
of the six motions were beyond the powers of the NEC. It further stated that if
passed, they could expose UNISON to legal proceedings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This cut no ice with the TFRC faction who knew they could
get these motions through by force of numbers and proceeded to do just that. A
proposal to defer consideration of the resolutions in light of the legal advice
received was voted down. We are now led to believe on social media that the
presidential team has sought further legal advice which contradicts that
tabled. However that has not been made available to NEC members and anyhow
should have been circulated before the debate took place.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With no hint of irony, the preamble to the “resolutions”
highlights that UNISON is a “member-led union” at the same time as NEC members
on this faction, with Socialist Party support, rode roughshod over lay
democracy, voting on a simple majority to alter UNISON rules for their own ends
– rules which had been agreed at National Delegate Conference by a two thirds
majority of the delegates and which should only have been changed by a
conference vote.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But then, these weren’t rule changes – they were just a
change in interpretation they claimed, in complete disregard of the legal
advice. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However it was the final “resolution” that perhaps shone a
light on the cynical motivation behind this. Or is it just coincidence that we
have a president from the TFRC faction, currently suspended and subject to
disciplinary action by his employer; and this “resolution” sets out the means
by which any member holding elected office who is dismissed by their employer can
continue both to be a member and to hold office in the union?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whatever the motivation, this is clearly a change to
existing rule which should only be approved by a two thirds majority of our
national delegate conference. It is also incredibly badly worded to the extent
that it would allow for any member, no matter why they have been dismissed, to
continue to hold office in the union and attend every committee that they are a
member of, unless or until the NEC decides otherwise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A blanket right for any dismissed member to continue to hold
office at all levels of the union has particularly distressed members of the
NEC who have themselves been the victims of serious sexual harassment, bullying
and racism in the workplace. Not to mention acts of fraud and dishonesty. It is
a travesty and contrary to UNISON aims and values that such individuals will
have an unconditional right to hold office in the union after dismissal by
their employer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The debate suggested that this “resolution” would only apply
in cases where the member has been subject to a witch-hunt, but that is not
what it says – nor is there any indication of how this would be judged or
assessed. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The inescapable conclusion is that rather than these changes
being in the interests of our members and the union, the whole process was a
powerplay in the interests of TFRC. Few members of the factions supporting the “resolutions”
even contributed to the debate, leaving me wondering if they fully appreciated
the seriousness of toeing the party line and voting in favour of “resolutions”
deemed unlawful by legal opinion.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On the insistence of the rest of us, and because of the
potential legal consequences for us as individuals as well as the union as a
whole, the voting on these “resolutions” was formally recorded through a
roll-call.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With all the attacks on our members by this Tory government,
the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit, the real terms cuts to wages, the rise
in child poverty and reliance on foodbanks to make ends meet, the increase in
energy cost and food and fuel shortages, it is shocking that almost the whole
of the NEC meeting was taken up on debating resolutions that were legally
incompetent and an obvious breach of rules. So much for member led.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whatever wrongs the TFRC grouping think they are addressing,
and there may have been some sympathy for that, they have seriously misjudged
and lost all credibility by undermining the very lay democracy they claim they
champion.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Kate Ramsden </i><br /></p>
UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-50078093085412783272021-10-08T22:20:00.004+01:002021-10-08T22:20:20.195+01:00Black History Month – Mandela’s visit to Glasgow October 1993 video<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6B6MMRrkH4HmDehYmab3aViCYtyjuwrWsUnyi13Cg28O9Vdd-PNnLFE4qwU6hXgymudcwxV-V1pOXtx-UNNtc2ujJAVLHHccItTIpL_P96YKZzR8fV59ZnmyxILMWkgQagHBN2DXQZbM/s1280/video_front_9oct2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh6B6MMRrkH4HmDehYmab3aViCYtyjuwrWsUnyi13Cg28O9Vdd-PNnLFE4qwU6hXgymudcwxV-V1pOXtx-UNNtc2ujJAVLHHccItTIpL_P96YKZzR8fV59ZnmyxILMWkgQagHBN2DXQZbM/s320/video_front_9oct2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>To celebrate October’s Black History Month, the Nelson Mandela
Scottish Memorial Foundation is launching a short video to mark the
anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s historic visit to Glasgow on 9 October
1993 to collect the Freedom of the City of Glasgow awarded to him in
1981 when he was still in prison. He also collected the Freedoms of
eight other authorities, Midlothian, Aberdeen, Dundee, Newcastle, Hull,
Sheffield, the London Borough of Greenwich and Islwyn.
<p></p><p>In his acceptance speech, Mr Mandela famously said: “Whilst we were
physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000
miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, declared us to be free.” Later
he said that, while in prison: “it <em>(the Freedom)</em> made us realise that the world hadn’t forgotten us.”</p>
<p>Brian Filling, NMSMF Chair and Honorary Consul for South Africa in
Scotland, said: “Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in Black history
and it is important in Black History Month, and on the anniversary of
his visit to Glasgow, that we remind people of his and the African
National Congress’s struggle, and Scotland’s role in the fight against
South Africa’s apartheid system, labelled by the United Nations as a
crime against humanity.</p>
<p>“The apartheid system in South Africa was based on white supremacism
and cheap black labour making vast profits for the West led and
supported by Britain over decades”.</p>
<p>The six minute video will go online at 1pm on Saturday 9 October on the Foundation website at <a href="https://www.mandelascottishmemorial.org/9oct2021">www.mandelascottishmemorial.org/9oct2021</a>, Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MandelaScottishMemorial">www.facebook.com/MandelaScottishMemorial</a> and YouTube <a href="https://youtu.be/tBo6v26ugjU">https://youtu.be/tBo6v26ugjU</a>
It includes archive footage of Mr Mandela’s visit and a first-hand
reminiscence from Michael Kelly, Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1981 when
the Freedom was granted. Music comes from Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra
playing “Nelson Mandela’s Welcome to the City of Glasgow” by Blair
Douglas.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p>Scotland was at the centre of the campaign for Mr Mandela’s release
from prison. The first ever freedom of a city for Nelson Mandela came
from Glasgow. It kick-started 2,264 mayors from 56 different countries
eventually signing a declaration to the UN in 1981 demanding his
release.</p>
<p>The video is part of the Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial
Foundation’s campaign to build a statue of Mr Mandela in Nelson Mandela
Place, Glasgow, along with an ongoing education programme with West Of
Scotland Development Education Centre which has already been welcomed by
many teachers and pupils.</p>
<p>Brian Filling added: “A permanent memorial to Nelson Mandela will not
only remind Scots of their proud history of solidarity with the South
African people, but it will also educate future generations to stand up
against racism and prejudice wherever it rears its ugly head.”</p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-39038033030727206092020-06-01T22:12:00.001+01:002021-10-08T22:16:10.476+01:00A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLh7al0vStIbhBiIbNjdf0MTIngxdm22kwS6L250XrgkXlLQuoiZb0Pn-k3K1_4wLB3UjFQ5lNDj75LZ0hyPh1bb1GuHdyAakcSrVYO4JWYGkzvH47fuwm5xrin5U86VM9_vBYsUQ5jr7T/s320/rkbwebsite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="320" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLh7al0vStIbhBiIbNjdf0MTIngxdm22kwS6L250XrgkXlLQuoiZb0Pn-k3K1_4wLB3UjFQ5lNDj75LZ0hyPh1bb1GuHdyAakcSrVYO4JWYGkzvH47fuwm5xrin5U86VM9_vBYsUQ5jr7T/s0/rkbwebsite.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i><a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-resource-keep-rodney-bickerstaffe%E2%80%99s-legacy-alive-current-and-future-generations" target="_blank">First published (edited) in the Morning Star April 2020:</a> </i>Legendary Scottish miner’s leader Michael McGahey famously and often reminded us that, "We are a movement not a monument".<br /><p>
<br />
It was a quote that the late Rodney Bickerstaffe, ex UNISON general
secretary and president of the National Pensioners Convention, kept
returning to in his wonderfully crafted speech at the unveiling of a
memorial to McGahey in Bonnyrigg at the 2006 Midlothian TUC Workers’
Memorial Day.<br />
<a name="more"></a><br />
<br />
In light of that, what would Bick (as so many knew him) make of the new
memorial website launched this week by friends and comrades to celebrate
his life and learn from his legacy? <b><a href="http://rodneybickerstaffe.org.uk/">rodneybickerstaffe.org.uk</a></b><br />
<br />
We hope he would have welcomed it. He certainly put enough work in
during his latter years to ensure that as much history, information and
learnings were deposited in the archive at Warwick University.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br />
<br />
He recognised the importance of being a ‘movement’ rather than a
‘monument’ but also the all-important lessons from past struggles and
from the thoughts, strategies and ideals of the giants in the labour
movement - and the activists on the ground who decade after decade rose
to what often seemed impossible challenges.<br />
<br />
On his retirement from UNISON in 2000, he said: “At the STUC I recall
McGahey and Airlie, giants of the trade union movement. But they are all
giants, be they members, stewards or leaders, high or low paid who have
passed us the banner.<br />
<br />
“It is they who have brought us to where we are. Everyone has to hand
over the banner… as each of us here will hand it over to those who
follow. The job is to make that banner shine more brightly.”<br />
<br />
But we can only do that if we learn from those who put the gleam in the
banner in the first place - learning from voices that were ours, not the
mass media’s - and this website hopes to contribute to that.<br />
<br />
The idea originated shortly after Bick’s death in 2017 as UNISON
colleagues in Scotland discussed the need for some form of public
repository to keep his legacy alive for current and future generations.
In 2019, ex UNISON official Bill Gilby drove things forward, linking up
across the UK and beyond with colleagues Jim Sutherland and Peter Morris
and enlisted me to develop the website.<br />
<br />
The site at <a href="https://rodneybickerstaffe.org.uk/" target="_blank">rodneybickerstaffe.org.uk</a>,
although still a work in progress, is intended as an easily accessible
hub for causes, speeches, writings and reminiscences. Many people and
campaigns have stories to tell about how they were inspired and
supported by Bick and they will be encouraged to share their stories.<br />
<br />
The website aims to be informative but also simple and uncomplicated, a lesson learned from Bick’s own speeches.<br />
<br />
If the public speaking adage of ‘tell them what they already know in
words they can take away’ applied to anyone, it applied to Bick in the
succinct and powerful oratory that summed up the complexity of people’s
experiences and gave the working class a voice.<br />
<br />
A prime example was when he was challenged about the effect on burials
during the ‘winter of discontent’ with the question, “What about the
dignity of the dead?” His immediate response was: “What about the
dignity of the living?” Gravediggers digging through a foot of snow,
turf and six foot of gravel in bitter cold and getting paid a pittance.<br />
<br />
And in 1986, addressing the TUC in his long hard fight for a minimum
wage - something we take for granted today - he knew how to shame
opposition in the movement: “For those who argue that the working poor
can receive a tax or social security handout, I refuse to accept that is
good trade unionism.<br />
<br />
“The labourer is worthy of his or her hire and, so far as I am
concerned, we should not be subsidising low-pay employers. We are not
into the politics of greed and, if some stand up and curse us, there are
millions that will stand up and bless you.”<br />
<br />
Bick was a widely respected internationalist and had a simple but
powerful message on a visit to the West Bank in 2007. “The words that
come out from me have got to be shocking, unbelievable and devastating
because that is exactly what it is. It’s an attempt to make people as
dehumanised as possible.”<br />
<br />
He chose words carefully because he was keenly aware of their effect and
often told the myriad of causes he was involved with that they should
use him while people still remembered who he was. The website will
remind people who he was and the importance of the words he spoke.<br />
<br />
Words we could do with using just now, like when he warned against a
Labour move to the centre at the STUC in Glasgow in 1996. “In reaching
over to the centre, to middle Britain, it shouldn't be done at the
expense of the disadvantaged, the sick, the pensioners and the dying.”<br />
<br />
It is said that a Labour politician once sarcastically referred to Bick
(among others) as ‘the conscience of the party’. History tells us that
conscience is just as important now as it was then.<br />
<p></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-70867655992776251112020-05-31T22:08:00.002+01:002021-10-08T22:59:39.503+01:00Denis Goldberg: Making life better for people. Is that not what the revolution was about? <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEw1YHCpXP39B3RYFrG7PJEZTgaF_w8uq-G3JiNKUKvWs3Q6m3Qjd1ZopzY71J6fjIw85kn1bweTxbY8SfXaO2zvaRn9a9QUyVDl38F2QWmrmU1dI8Jfdjh2DBB4bdPW5Anu5w1q_1anU9/s200/denisjohn2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlA8lCxIiUUA9LFOR3DFj1zrVfMlgt_QeZJ0sUBjPIyWMWz6rY4w72Td7m9Tt9_gDaLJqZNFnbu1ifu3axaZym99Ilmm3UJx21H2hCpzUoaTapuong3raiWiYLXjdPk29lXE3Tp9sC2bQC/s400/denis4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="400" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlA8lCxIiUUA9LFOR3DFj1zrVfMlgt_QeZJ0sUBjPIyWMWz6rY4w72Td7m9Tt9_gDaLJqZNFnbu1ifu3axaZym99Ilmm3UJx21H2hCpzUoaTapuong3raiWiYLXjdPk29lXE3Tp9sC2bQC/s320/denis4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Tributes poured in across the world last month on the news of the death
of veteran anti-apartheid campaigner and honorary UNISON member Denis
Goldberg.<br /></div>
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UNISON Scotland had a long friendship with Denis and we were continually inspired by him.<br />
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He was sentenced in 1964 in South Africa alongside Nelson Mandela for
his part in the struggle against apartheid. On his release 22 years
later, he continued to work to overcome the apartheid regime.<br />
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He visited us often and, in Glasgow at the launch of his book in 2008,
he said of Scotland: “After being released from prison, my goodness, it
was like being at home, of being enfolded by people wanting to help.
Which is why I am here today”.<span><a name='more'></a></span><br />
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We were proud to support his charity Community HEART, managed by UNISON
member Isobel McVicar, which has contributed to better access to
education, HIV/AIDS projects, supporting those affected by violence
against women, health projects, and housing projects.<br />
<br />
Latterly we called for support for the Denis Goldberg House of Hope arts
and culture education centre where he lived in Hout Bay.<br />
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UNISON Scottish secretary Mike Kirby was with him on a trade union visit to South Africa in 2000.<br />
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He said: “I saw first hand the power of the emotion and respect he
generated in those who had come through the struggle against apartheid.<br />
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“Whether we met his former comrades like Ahmed Karhrada, the trade union
and government officials, the people of Soweto, Denis was greatly
acknowledged for his historical role and his continuing endeavours.”<br />
<br />
Denis had been outspoken about elements in government in South Africa in
recent years. In Glasgow in 2012, he slammed those who had “forgotten
why we had a revolution.”<br />
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Denis’s most recent focus had been on initiatives like a music project
that brings races together to feel joy and achievement they would never
otherwise have experienced and a psychotherapy project for children,
disastrously affected by the trauma of events.<br />
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“After all”, Denis told a meeting in Glasgow at the STUC, “it is all
about trying to make life better for people. Is that not what the
revolution was about?”<br />
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Few of us will have had the fortune to have met and known such a
significant figure in the struggle for equality and justice as Denis
Goldberg. We will remember his inspiring presence but also his modesty,
humanity and warm friendship.<br />
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Our thoughts go out to his family and many friends and comrades across the world.<p></p><p><i>John Stevenson</i><br />
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See also <br />
<a href="https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2012/11/leadership-and-south-africa-beyond.html">https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2012/11/leadership-and-south-africa-beyond.html</a><br />
<a href="https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2010/06/goldberg-i-now-have-million-brothers.html">https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2010/06/goldberg-i-now-have-million-brothers.html</a><br />
<a href="https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2002/06/best-wishes-as-denis-returns-to-south.html">https://stevensonsrepository.blogspot.com/2002/06/best-wishes-as-denis-returns-to-south.html</a></p>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-73275768075747989782016-04-20T14:34:00.003+01:002021-10-08T22:02:08.489+01:00STUC opposes Trident as 'an extravagance and an irrelevance'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The STUC has renewed its call for Trident replacement to be abandoned and will revisit setting up Trade Union CND, focussing on job diversification for workers employed on Trident.<br />
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In a debate with major UNISON contributions from the union itself and several trade union councils, delegates rejected a GMB motion calling for Trident replacement as the ‘only game in town’ to defend jobs.<br />
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UNISON NEC policy chair Jane Carolan, in a rousing speech, supporting a Clydebank TUC motion, dubbed Trident: "An extravagance and an irrelevance" (see full text of her speech below).<br />
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UNISON activist Tom Morrison had moved the motion for Clydebank TUC, seconded by Arthur West from Kilmarnock and Loudon TUC. Both made reasoned, evidenced and devastating critiques of moral and economic case against Trident.<br />
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Kate Ramsden, speaking for Aberdeen TUC’s motion slammed the arms trade that sells weapons to repressive regimes. <br />
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She said: "Remember the bombardment of Gaza in 2014? The devastation wrought by Israeli bombs and missiles whose component parts were made at the Raytheon factory in Fife.<br />
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"Arms sales fuel conflict, support repression and make the world a more dangerous place for all of us, but especially those who through accident of birth, live in war zones or under oppression.<br />
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"And in the process, very rich people are becoming even richer on the backs of the suffering they create and care little for. It’s immoral, it’s obscene and it has to stop."<br />
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<b>Jane Carolan’s speech to STUC against Trident Renewal<span><a name='more'></a></span></b><br />
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UNISON has a proud record of defending quality employment, defending high paid skilled jobs. <br />
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But we also have a record of standing up for international peace and solidarity, and believe that both on practical and principled reasons that the impact of Trident replacement would be catastrophic.<br />
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Practically it was the late Robin Cook of this parish who pointed out that the justification for Trident was at least 25 years out of date. The old cold war enemy of the Soviet Union has disintegrated<br />
It is deceased <br />
It is in fact a very dead parrot.<br />
No other credible threat has emerged.<br />
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The world has changed and the threat that we now face makes nuclear weapons hopelessly irrelevant.<br />
Indeed their very existence is futile - None of our wars has been won by them and none of our enemies deterred by them <br />
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And they are worse than useless in the terrorist threat we now face. How could our rented rockets ever have been deployed against outrages in Paris or Brussels? <br />
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Yet while we spend on Trident, conventional forces that contribute to peacekeeping security and<br />
stability are cut.<br />
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Why then would we want to continue to build and hold nuclear weapons, when there are realistic alternatives?<br />
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The motion asserts that however defence diversification is too vague and not credible<br />
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But government figures that show that even if Trident were cancelled it would be 15 years before any jobs would go due to decommissioning.<br />
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15 years is a long time in employment terms. Ask any local government worker.<br />
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But there a wider principle here. Trident competes directly for public spending with our priorities as a movement. The further impact of cuts on public services should Trident be replaced would be catastrophic.<br />
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How many jobs in health in care in education would be scrapped? <br />
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And what of the 62,000 jobs that could be created if the annual running costs alone of Trident were used to build social housing and an energy efficient low carbon economy?<br />
Congress<br />
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Politics is always about choices. Trident represents an excessive diversion of resources <br />
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UNISON has no qualms at all about saying that socially necessary spending that promotes quality of life for the majority is the principle that we stand for. We already see the consequences of major cuts in public spending and the effects that has in our communities and are campaigning to persuade our politicians to think again.<br />
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For the cost of Trident we could have 100,000 more firefighters<br />
120,000 nurses <br />
120,000 teachers <br />
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It is a gross misallocation of taxpayers' money, our money where there are so many more vital and constructive ways in which it could be spent. We need to highlight that Trident, a system designed never to be used is not only an irrelevance but an extravagance that will destroy our public services.<br />
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When the social fabric of our society is being torn up, it is impossible to justify support for the expensive and rather useless toy that is Trident. <br />
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Congress please opposeUNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-77845232342590746762016-03-25T15:08:00.000+00:002016-03-25T15:08:59.081+00:00Brian Bilston’s ‘Refugee’ PoemThey have no need of our help <br />
So do not tell me <br />
These haggard faces could belong to you or I <br />
Should life have dealt a different hand <br />
We need to see them for who they really are <br />
Chancers and scroungers <br />
Layabouts and loungers <br />
With bombs up their sleeves <br />
Cut-throats and thieves <br />
They are not <br />
Welcome here <br />
We should make them <br />
Go back to where they came from <br />
They cannot<br />
Share our food <br />
Share our homes <br />
Share our countries<br />
Instead let us <br />
Build a wall to keep them out <br />
It is not okay to say <br />
These are people just like us <br />
A place should only belong to those who are born there<br />
Do not be so stupid to think that <br />
The world can be looked at another way <br />
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<b>(Now read from bottom to top)</b><br />
<b><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/brian_bilston" target="_blank">@brian_bilston</a></b>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-27946796457053812532016-02-20T11:29:00.000+00:002016-02-20T11:29:19.399+00:00Cameron’s EU Deal... What’s So Special?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, BBC Breakfast this morning has wall to wall coverage of the UK’s Special Status in the EU. Cameron has triumphantly marched back from Brussels telling us he has secured a deal that lets us stay in, while there is speculation about what Boris Johnston will say.... Don’t all yawn together.<br />
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But it is difficult to contain excitement about this deal.<br />
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Wording changes about European integration and further cuts to benefits for “migrants” are difficult to get excited about. Let’s look at what the renegotiation doesn’t say:-<br />
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• Nothing about job creation across the EU where youth unemployment in particular is at worrying levels <br />
• Nothing about workplace democracy and collective bargaining <br />
• Nothing about modernising labour laws to cover zero hours contracts<br />
• Nothing about challenging corporate tax evasion (but more protection for the City of London)<br />
• Nothing about the Robin Hood tax on financial transactions<br />
• Nothing about the protection of quality public services in Europe, while privatisation continues running amok<br />
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So the EU remains exactly the same as far as its workers are concerned.The same EU that has dictatorially imposed austerity across Greece, Spain, Portugal, drastically cutting living standards, watching as unemployment rises and wages fall, cutting pensions, slashing public services, privatising public assets at knock down prices for private profiteers. But of course protecting the banks. <br />
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Maybe as workers the question has to be, what is in the EU for us? UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-63377688307078291182016-02-19T08:57:00.001+00:002016-02-19T08:57:38.737+00:00Tories to block Public Sector boycotts of Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Tory government announced on Monday (15/2/16) that from now on only government approved boycotts will be tolerated. So much for local democracy.<br />
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Through a guidance note published by the Cabinet Office, without a debate, statement to, or a vote in parliament, the government has effectively banned public service organisations, which includes, local authorities, NHS Trusts, universities and students’ unions from adopting ethical procuring policies and supporting boycotts of Israel.<br />
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Although couched as guidance the statement makes it clear that public bodies will face severe penalties if they introduce or continue with boycotts on ethical grounds.<br />
<br />
Despite the note being written in general terms, it is clear that the policy is a crude attempt to block the increasingly effective Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, (BDS) campaign against the Israeli apartheid state. In fact the announcement was made while Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock was on a trade visit to Israel.<br />
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The guidance note sets out a variety of spurious reasons for the ban, ranging from hindering UK export trade, to undermining community cohesion. No mention of the disastrous impact on community cohesion from Israel’s murderous policies in Palestine. In case these arguments fail to hit home the government falls back on the old chestnut of International security. Apparently a local authority introducing ethics into its procurement process may have dire consequences for our national security.<br />
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This change in policy is a major coup for the Israeli lobby which has tried every dirty trick in the book, including intimidation and spurious legal challenges, in a desperate attempt to undermine the BDS campaign. So far these underhand tactics have failed to stop the building of an effective movement. Many councils and the Scottish government have now adopted ethical procurement policies.<br />
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The ludicrous thing is that even the Foreign Office’s own documents describe Israel’s settlements in Palestine as being in breach of International Law. It further states that Israel’s illegal action is an obstacle to peace and the creation of a two state solution in the Middle East. <br />
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And now Eric Pickles,the former minister who sent thousand of pounds of public money on limo journeys to shift him from parliament to his office 5 minutes away, has attacked Trade Unions for supporting the call to boycott Israeli goods. In a briefing on the vicious Trade Union Bill, Pickles, through crocodile tears, argues that it is ‘hard left’ union activists who impose boycotts behind their members’ backs.<br />
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No one would expect Pickles to understand true democracy or to read trade union journals. But if he did, then he would know that resolutions supporting the boycott of Israel are debated in local trade union branches, at regional meetings and at national conferences.<br />
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The policy is then adopted and the decisions and the debates get reported widely within trade union publications. This is far more democratic than the way Eric Pickles and his Tory mates adopt policies. Oh yes and Mr Pickles is the Chair of Conservative Friends of Israel, this fact may have slipped his mind to mention in his briefing.<br />
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This Tory policy is about propping up the illegal regime in Israel and has nothing to do with security, community cohesion or even the economic impact on the UK. Everyone who believes that ethics should trump finance or trade must make sure they continue the fight to block Israeli goods from the occupied territories being sold in the UK.<br />
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Israel will only cease its illegal actions when world pressure forces it to change. If Israel wants to trade with the rest of the world then they must abide by International Law, respect Human Rights and recognise the rights of the Palestinian people to a homeland.<br />
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We must not cave in to either the Israeli lobby in the UK or their friends in Parliament. Trade Unions must play a key role in this and we need to see the leaders of our unions, especially the public sector unions, come out publicly and support the BDS campaign and reject the Tories anti democratic policies.<br />
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Boycotts helped free South Africa from surge of apartheid an effective boycott campaign against Israel can end the surge of apartheid against the Palestinian people. UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-34055851845109010942016-02-11T23:01:00.000+00:002016-02-11T23:01:49.262+00:00TU Bill attacks human rights. Manchester Rally.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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UNISON's North West Region hosted an anti trade union bill rally at the Mechanics Institute Manchester tonight with Angela Raynor MP, Paula Barket, NW Convener, Kevan Nelson, UNISON North West Secretary, UNISON Policy Chair Jane Carolan and Carl Roper of the TUC, Here we cover Jane Carolan's speech in full.<br />
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"It was Catch 22 that immortalised the phrase just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean that they are not after you.<br />
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Even before the General Election last year we knew a Tory victory would put trade unionism at the forefront of an assault on working people<br />
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We didn’t have long before this abomination of a piece of legislation was published.<br />
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It attacks human rights, civil liberties, political freedom, the right to organise, the right to strike. <br />
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In short it is an attempt to kill resistance to the Tory project from the workplace or the electorate. We don’t fit into a Tory world view. In Thatcher’s famous phrase, we remain the enemy within.<br />
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Don’t forget that this is the Government that introduced the Lobbying Act, censoring electoral campaigning by those critical to its programme- everyone from the British Legion to Shelter and all points in between, including trade unions <br />
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Like that piece of legislation, the TU BILL was badly drafted in Tory Central Office, rushed through Parliament and subject to only very limited scrutiny. Any reasonable person has to ask, if they are prepared to misuse Parliamentary democracy, what have they got to hide?<br />
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Trade union activities are recognised as part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights Article 23.....<br />
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BUT The only voluntary group in civil society that is subject to unwarranted government interference, intrusion and sanction is the trade union movement Human rights are everyone’s rights unless you are a trade unionist. If this act was printed with the word “Christian” or “Women” replacing every reference to a trade unions or trade unionists, its utter repugnance would lead to widespread condemnation. <br />
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My union UNISON is a public sector union. We have fought for public services as the Tories have sought to place public assets in a Dutch auction willing to sell everything from our NHS to the fabric of our communities, allowing private companies like a grab a profit PLC’S to take over our schools, closing libraries and community facilities than spending for public investment, handing our hard earned taxes to shareholders as profit. <br />
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UNISON has a long and proud history of defending what we believe in, both nationally and locally through the use of our political funds. We are now effectively censored and the party political links that our members have voted for and continue to vote for are under threat <br />
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As a public sector union we are also targeted organisationally. <br />
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UNISON is based on strong lay organisation at a local level and local democracy, <br />
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Our ability to represent our members depends at that level on facility time.<br />
We will be drastically curtailed in our ability to act on behalf of our members<br />
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The new Bill introduces regulation of facility time by requiring employers to report on the resources allocated for facility time. In addition, the government is also taking powers to impose a cap on the amount of facility time paid in each public and local authority, so that local arrangements will be under not only close scrutiny, but subject to outside control. <br />
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Such powers we are now told by Tory ministers will be used exceptionally. To which I would reply with the old adage - How do you know when a Tory is lying / His lips are moving. <br />
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Now even if the union has a written agreement with an employer that provides for an approved and established arrangement for local representation, the Bill gives the government the power to interfere in individual contracts of employment and collective agreements even though these are voluntarily agreed by public sector employers. Valuable local arrangements that work to the benefit of employees and employers will be under threat. <br />
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On top of that we have interference in the DOCAS arrangements whereby currently employers collect subscription income. Let’s be frank. DOCAS is a convenience all round. <br />
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It’s convenient for members, as there is no need to remember when subs are due or make arrangements for payment.<br />
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It is convenient for employers, in that the trade union is a known entity. <br />
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And it is convenient for the trade union, providing a reliable and a regular source of income to finance their activities, and have an organised membership.<br />
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And in the majority of cases it is a service for which we pay employers. The only people who believe otherwise inhabit a galaxy far far away called Tory Central Office who likes to pretend that this is a charge on the public purse. Wrong again chaps.<br />
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Now such arrangements are to be outlawed. This is the Tory government at its most vindictive and destructive. <br />
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What stands in their way must be bulldozed out of it. DOCAS stands for organised trade unionism. That is why it cannot be allowed to continue. <br />
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If this bill is passed in its current form unions like Unison faces the task of a lifetime. 800,000 members currently paying by Docas will need to be re-signed as direct debit payers, a major organisational challenge, Members will find themselves inadvertently losing access to vital union services. <br />
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Trade unionism in this country is the most heavily regulated voluntary activity probably in the Western World the current anti trade union laws in this country are out with international law as defined in the ILO conventions, and the changes make a bad situation worse. As Prof John Hendy never stops reminding us we have never had a right to strike in this country.<br />
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No industrial action in this country is political. Industrial action usually follows a breakdown in a negotiating situation <br />
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Union members are not Pavlov’s dogs awaiting the whistle of “All out” to take strike action. But the message of anti trade union legislation is clear. In the case of a breakdown in negotiation, one side is always right, and that side is the employers. <br />
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But this Government is determined to tie the hands of trade unionists by creating anti democratic measured that destroy the right to strike<br />
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Only in trade union ballots can the decision be declared invalid not because there is no majority of those voting, but because others chose not to participate in the ballot. This is a new test of democracy that our electoral system fails spectacularly, but is to be imposed on trade unions.<br />
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Yes I would like to see every strike ballot be based on greater participation, because it would mean more members understood the issue. But if I choose not to vote in a ballot and a strike ballot is successful, why should I have a veto in whether the action goes ahead? Welcome to the world of Tory logic.<br />
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And of course 40 per of the total workforce must vote in favour of action in important public services. So for a successful ballot, not fifty per cent of those voting must be in favour but 80 per cent. How many Tories were elected like that?<br />
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The right to withdraw labour is fundamental to the trade union relations and recognised internationally. But this Bill allows so called agency workers to undermine the strike action, placing more power yet again in the hands of the employers. <br />
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If we take strike action our picketing and our protests are subject to severe regulation undermining freedom of speech and threatening the civil liberties of working people to defend themselves. Even that most civil liberties minded organisation the Police Federation does not want to see its members getting involved.<br />
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And just to make sure we comply our old friend the Certification Officer is given new powers to investigate unions even where no one has complained. Our memberships records are no longer our own and we are under state control. And we will pay for the privilege to the tune of £11 million a year by the governments own estimate. <br />
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This legislation now winds its way through the legislative process. The trade union movement continues to negotiate, to agitate and lobby to achieve changes to this vile piece of legislation. We will continue to do so. <br />
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BUT <br />
• Between the workplace restrictions,<br />
• The industrial restrictions <br />
• And the campaign restrictions this Bill is designed <br />
• To allow the Government to push through drastic cuts to the public sector without organised opposition, <br />
• Weakening the workers right to be supported at work <br />
• This Government is gerrymandering political boundaries to destroy opposition to its programme <br />
• A programme of destroying the welfare state in its widest meaning,<br />
• To proliferate the low pay and zero hours economy, <br />
• To perpetuate the inequality that undermines the society we live in. <br />
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As trade unions we must continue our resistance, not just this particular piece of legislation but the whole Tory project whatever it takes."UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-51984450988199613032016-02-09T17:01:00.001+00:002016-02-09T17:01:24.092+00:00UNISON must get anti-austerity, workers' rights and anti-TTIP message into EU vote debateUNISON's Jane Carolan, speaking at today's<a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0" target="_blank"> Institute of Employment Rights Conference</a> outlined the history of the union's position on the EU and the referendum debate ahead. This is the full text of her speech:-<br />
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"UNISON has no policy from NDC (National Conference) on the issue of leaving the EU. That may surprise some who have seen our regular opposition to policies on the European Union proposed through TUC Congress but there is no contradiction here. Quite simply UNISON’s democratically agreed policies have consistently been ultra-critical of the EU institutions practices and policies BUT not one of the motions that we have passed has actually gone on to propose that as a result the union should commit itself to backing an EU withdrawal.<br />
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This goes back to the first national delegate conference of the union. When Nalgo, NUPE and Cohse came together to form UNISON the Nalgo left could see from the proposed rule book that the new union was to be pro public service, anti-privatisation.<br />
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However there were a number of policies that had been hard fought for in the old Nalgo that needed to be reiterated in the new union. One was Palestine, where support for the self determination of the Palestinian People had been initially narrowly won in the 80s. A second was opposition to Trident replacement and a commitment defence diversification that remains UNISON policy to this day.<br />
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What can I say other than plus ca change… <br />
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And the final one was opposition to the Maastricht Treaty.<br />
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And it is worthwhile reiterating the grounds for that opposition because it became the foundation for subsequent criticism <br />
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These have consistently centred on the undemocratic nature of the EU institutions, divorced from accountability and democratic processes. And the Predominance of the single market and market mechanisms in EU economic policy as well as the embedding of the tenets of monetarism <br />
UNISON has a positive view of public spending, arguing that it is economically and socially vital; a view included in the UNISON’s constitution .UNISON would argue that market mechanisms fail to deliver the public services those counties need .This is supported by the economic history of the last hundred years. <br />
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The attitude that has developed in the European Union is that public spending is an economic liability seen in the institutionalisation of monetarism as the predominant economic policy, with the effects that has had on public services throughout Europe.<br />
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The Maastricht treaty was rooted in pre-Keynsian economics bolstered by the Growth and Stability pact. Even in the early 90’s this prioritised monetary stability at the expense of jobs with a strict control of interest rates and a strangle hold on public finances.<br />
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Later treaties continued in this direction with Lisbon emphasising deregulation and flexibility in the labour market and a roll back in social legislation.<br />
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Further treaties considered it necessary to deregulate the labour market and attack the so called misguided incentives provided by social security and the welfare system. As we have heard today this has been backed by the ECJ ASSERTING THE PRIMACY OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM.<br />
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As long ago as 2003 the commission was announcing that comprehensive reforms are necessary to place both pension systems and health and social care on a long term financially stable footing by limiting public sector exposure. Pressure on public spending is based on EU fiscal targets <br />
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Billions are now spent on the private provision of public services throughout EU services have been taken over by private equity corporations insisting on low pay for the workforce but high profit margins <br />
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UNISON has also seen battles both politically and within the trade union movement over issues like the Services Directive where freedom to trade in services took priority over the nature of those services and threatened public services - a bit like the threat that we now face from TTIP. <br />
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The worst result from the imposition of austerity policies across Europe has been seen in the adoption of austerity policies across Europe following the crash Greece is not the only casualty just the most high profile. The result is a catastrophic economic depression with around 30% unemployment or 50% among the young, slashed salaries and pensions, social benefits huge cuts in the public sector. <br />
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Collective agreements have been swept aside with attacks on trade unions and privatisation of airports railways and the sell-off of Greek public assets. What happened in Greece was not an aberration from EU policies but a logical consequence of them. <br />
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Those who were saved by the bailout were the German and French banks.<br />
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What happened in Greece was not an aberration from EU policies but a logical consequence of them. <br />
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Is it any wonder that Larry Elliot in the Guardian was forced to conclude of the Greek bail-out: “Keynes never existed. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was never written. Economic history ended on the day Franklin Roosevelt replaced Herbert Hoover as president of the United States.”<br />
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It would however be naive in the extreme to state that because Conference has taken a vote and something becomes UNISON policy that it therefore becomes deep and meaningful to the vast majority of UNISON members.<br />
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Policy will be reflected in our attitude to developments in Europe. Reflected in our own publications and communications.<br />
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Policy will be reflected in our dialogue with the TUC and the ETUC where we have quite different policy positions to those organisations. <br />
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In fairness however it is likely that a fair percentage of our membership will adhere to a social democratic vision of Europe going back 25 years to the view that the economics of the single market can be balanced by an active set of employment and social policies. It has been a view expressed in conference but never won in debate, subscribed to by much of the TUC and the default position of the Liberal press, emphasising the benefits that the EU has brought to working people. <br />
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Add into that mix the use of EU Development policy and Regional Funding. <br />
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Equally there is a view that for some parts of the UK local economies have come to rely on European Funding to counterbalance the lack of UK Government spending, particularly in areas where traditional industries have either been deliberately run down or allowed to go to the wall. As national governments withdraw funding from the regions they have come to rely on the EU for funding for jobs and growth through EU regional development policies. <br />
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Certainly the overwhelming social democratic view of the EU as subscribed to by most of the Labour Party would emphasise that the EU is a benign organisation that can be influenced in a more progressive direction, and I would have to acknowledge that view would be held by a large proportion of our membership and cannot be ignored in the referendum campaign.<br />
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What we cannot do and I don’t think the trade union movement can do is been seen to be backing any of the current official 'yes' or 'no' campaigns. The 'yes' campaign is dominated by an undeniable belief in the status quo, a status quo that UNISON policy has consistently criticised. <br />
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However the real issue that we would emphasise - economic policy, of workers’ rights, of combating austerity; are not likely to be the stuff of a 'no' campaign, dominated by racism and xenophobia in the debate in migration, and by the short hand slogans of cutting red tape and bureaucracy, that usually mean attacking workers’ rights. <br />
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Neither of those campaigns is a club that I would want UNISON to be a member of. <br />
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But the anti-austerity message, the fight against privatisation, and trade treaties like TTIP need explanation. And it is in terms of these issues that we need to have a dialogue with our members and encourage that democratic debate. Recognising that there are significant differences of view across the spectrum of opinion in the country and the UNISON membership. <br />
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As such, UNISON will continue to press the various parties and organisations in the debate on the issues of importance to our members at work, to the services they provide and the communities they live in, encouraging the fullest engagement of our members in the debates, while respecting the diversity of views of the members which they will register in the referendum.<br />
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Should branches and regions decide to put the issue on the agenda for conference by the closing date for motions this year, the issue will voted on and a decision taken. <br />
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There is a problem however if the timetable dictates a referendum in June. This will be a major constitutional issue with consequences throughout the UK, and the union has a responsibility to encourage discussion on the issue. However the major priority for the union at the present time remains the TU Bill and the primary focus must remain that, and the consequences that flow from it.<br />
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It follows that work on the EU issue must be integrated into regular union work, while promoting debate. <br />
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It is therefore proposed to launch an information and consultation exercise at Branch level, encouraging branch committees to consider key issues and to provide feedback on those discussions.<br />
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<b>A consultation paper will include:-</b><br />
1. Brief Note on the UNISON debates over the period.<br />
2. KEY ISSUES <br />
• Economic Prosperity <br />
• Public Services <br />
• Workers’ Rights <br />
• Trade Treaties<br />
• Migration and Racism<br />
• The Reform Agenda <br />
Regions will be requested to work with branches locally to encourage participation and to collate the feedback that emerges from those meetings. UNISON media and communications will back up the regional approach. UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-87349907678568056962015-12-06T15:50:00.001+00:002015-12-06T15:50:20.693+00:00Humanity - a poem for refugees by Joy JohnsonPacking up her school books<br /> Laughing with her friend<br /> It only took a moment<br /> For her school days to come to an end <br />
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“We’re only kids in school”<br /> Her voice was pained but clear<br /> Bodies charred and disfigured<br />
She was defiant in a time of fear<br />
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Sepia soldiers in the trenches<br /> Skin blistered, bandaged eyes<br /> Clinging to their comrades<br />
In agony a generation dies<br />
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Winter froze the Arab Spring<br /> Targeted for slaughter<br /> Children no longer protected<br />
Someone’s son, someone’s daughter<br />
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Pitiful souls crammed together<br /> Clinging to flimsy protection<br /> Abandoned to treacherous water<br />
A flotilla of desperation<br />
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Over the Aegean Sea<br /> T. shirts, trainers images haunt us<br /> A testament to life’s fragility<br />
Would be scientists, doctors, nurses<br />
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Hands reach out and clasped<br /> Out of tyrants clutches free at last<br /> But razor wire greets the huddled masses<br /> And says No to the new colossus</div>
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Read Emma Lazarus’s famous <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emma-lazarus" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;">poem</span></a> which is engraved on the Statue of Liberty</div>
UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-40745336404223263592015-10-14T16:22:00.002+01:002015-10-14T16:22:44.617+01:00UK unions must stand with their Turkish and Kurdish brothers and sisters at this time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The trade union confederations in Turkey, KESK and DISK, along with the Engineers and Architects Association and the Medical Association organised the demonstration and rally in Ankara on Saturday which was attacked by two bomb blasts which have resulted in the death of over 100 people with many hundreds more being injured. The demonstration was called under the slogan of ‘Labour for Peace’, <i>writes Stephen Smellie, branch secretary of UNISON's South Lanarkshire branch and depute convener of UNISON Scotland</i><br />
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The progressive trade unions decided to call the demonstration in order to provide a focus point for all those in the country who are opposed to the policies of conflict promoted by the Turkish government of President Erdogan and the AKP (Peace and Development Party) and the increasing violence targeted mainly at the Kurdish community by state forces.<br />
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Whilst the Government talks of fighting terrorism it bombs PKK bases in Iraq when the PKK had in place a ceasefire and were engaged in the struggle in Iraq and Syria against ISIS. At the same time hundreds of Kurdish activists, including elected representatives of the opposition party HDP, have been arrested in Turkey. However the state action has not been restricted to attacks on Kurdish organisations. Trade union and left activists have also been targeted. <br />
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Whilst on a visit to Turkey in late September I met with trade unionists in Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey and in Istanbul and they confirmed that their organisations had been targeted. Whilst I was in Diyarbakir the offices of the health union, SES (affiliated to KESK), was attacked by police smashing in their office doors and intimidating those present whilst claiming to be searching for terrorists.<br />
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The demonstration on Saturday was therefore an attempt to unite across all sections of society against peace. Whilst the pro-Kurdish HDP party actively supported the demonstration it was attended by many people who are members of the trade unions and who support other parties such as the biggest opposition party in the Turkish parliament the CHP.<br />
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The bomb blasts have been condemned by many people including the ITUC, ETUC PSI (details of these are on the DISK website http://www.disk.org.tr/2015/10/international-trade-union-movement-condemn-ankara-massacre/<br />
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Many people in Turkey believe that the state was behind the attacks. For those of us in the UK that is difficult to understand but in Turkey the ‘deep state’ operates at many levels with various semi-autonomous organisations operating in networks to take actions as they see fit to protect the interests of the state. Whether this means planting bombs, prompting fascist groups to do so, allowing ISIS contacts to operate in the country and cross over the Syrian border, is impossible to say.<br />
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However in the bomb blast in Diyarbakir on 5 June where four people died and 200 were injured there were no reports of any police officers being injured. In the reports from Saturday there have been no mention of police officers being injured in the bomb blasts. Considering the scale of the blasts it is remarkable that no police were in the vicinity and suffered no injuries. People in Turkey believe this is proof that the police at least had knowledge of the bombs so that their personnel could be removed to a safe distance.<br />
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The Turkish government party, AKP, lost its overall majority in the general election in June and have refused to agree terms with any of the three opposition parties that would have allowed for a coalition government to be created and instead they have called a further election on 1 November. Since June they have prosecuted a policy of conflict and violence, heightening tensions, as part of their attempt to win an overall majority. This cynical campaign needs to be exposed further and challenged by all progressive organisations and governments in Europe and beyond.<br />
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The trade unions in the UK must stand shoulder to shoulder with their Turkish and Kurdish brothers and sisters at this time. Dave Prentis on behalf of UNISON has written to KESK and DISK. In his message he said,<br />
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“On behalf of UNISON I send our deepest condolences on the tragic loss of so many of your members’ lives at the Labour, Peace and Democracy Rally in Ankara on Saturday. We send our heartfelt sympathy to the families and friends of the victims, and our hopes for a full recovery for all those injured in the attack. <br />
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"UNISON condemns this brutal attack on trade unionists who were campaigning in support of peace, democracy and workers’ rights, and against the increasing violence and repression that the people of Turkey are suffering. We support the call for a full, transparent and independent investigation into the circumstances of the attack and its aftermath. <br />
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"We stand in solidarity with our comrades in KESK and DISK in the difficult weeks and months ahead as you struggle to come to terms with the tragic events of Saturday’s attack, and as you continue to work bravely and tirelessly for democracy, peace and rights.”<br />
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Messages of support and solidarity should be sent to international@disk.org.trUNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-49475729379543392672015-09-18T12:20:00.001+01:002015-09-18T12:20:34.143+01:00Women in UNISON<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGaTE6hPjbFLmsCt1yyB2zwRYKnmpMTsUOhWBFY_7DQRcc38VX4xCS3uFobI8D4v74TLqy4LAlXo2DhmbJNvfHDSrdWvsiL1oM2mdFNjrfZO0zhJehEs5s4RhnWLDxtUoG6EtQ1L3n5W8/s1600/womeninunison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGaTE6hPjbFLmsCt1yyB2zwRYKnmpMTsUOhWBFY_7DQRcc38VX4xCS3uFobI8D4v74TLqy4LAlXo2DhmbJNvfHDSrdWvsiL1oM2mdFNjrfZO0zhJehEs5s4RhnWLDxtUoG6EtQ1L3n5W8/s1600/womeninunison.jpg" /></a></div>When national newspapers (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/16/gender-and-unity-in-the-labour-movement" target="_blank">Gender And Unity In The Labour Movement - Guardian 17 Sept</a>) are used to urge that its time for 'a woman' to lead UNISON perhaps its time to look at where women are in the union.<br />
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The leadership of UNISON, as national newspapers may not be aware, lies in the lay membership. At its pinnacle is the National Executive Council, of whom at any point in time two thirds will automatically be women, due to an election process that awards seats at every level on the basis of proportionality, reflecting the proportion of women in the membership. The presidency of our union is guaranteed to consist of at least two women out of a structure of a president and two vice presidents. This means that in the last eighteen years since the merged union elected its own president, only six men have ever held that office.<a name='more'></a> <br />
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The majority of the NEC’s committees are led by women, with socialist women currently in charge of the Finance Committee and the Policy Committee. Over the years individual personalities may have come and gone but within the committee system this model has been regularly repeated and indeed at some points over the history of UNISON, all of the chairing posts were held and led by women, from Services to Members, Development and Organisation to International as well as the two mentioned above. <br />
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This pattern is repeated in the Service Group structure, where again the majority of the chairs representing major negotiating groups are women. From the start of UNISON, in major negotiations from Single Status to Agenda for Change, to launching a new service group for Police Staff, or bringing together a single table in Higher Education, the key players have been UNISON women.<br />
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Where vital issues for members are being discussed, UNISON women are involved. These women have led key disputes on the crucial issues of pay and pensions. <br />
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At regional level, regions are free to elect their own regional lay leadership. But yet again, women dominate those structures. Three quarters of UNISON’s regions are led by formidable women conveners, chairing regional councils and regional committees, taking responsibility for the political and campaigning work of their regions, and working with regional secretaries to ensure that branches have the resources and the staff to meet the needs of our membership.<br />
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The “government" structure of UNISON is the National Delegate Conference. Again the UNISON rules of proportionality and fair representation apply. This means that the vast majority of delegates deciding the policies of UNISON are women from our branches. UNISON women have led the crucial debates from Pay and Pensions, the Economy and Equality, to Equal Pay, our discussions on International matters and issues such as Domestic Violence and Sexual Harassment.Women lead on issues regarding our own finances and structures The Women’s agenda is our conference agenda. <br />
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Women in the leadership? Draw your own conclusions. UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-2880856831411411232015-09-16T18:20:00.003+01:002015-09-16T18:20:48.992+01:00We have a moral and legal obligation to help refugees: Jane Carolan full #TUC15 speech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7fJ9qtAIpe2TaINYtUa4a1D51-_mmDfUIyk5N5ioHqcn6SIR3OA30dZCHOyv32zGIIfwL2lYQVSk0qSsnW453Rz-N47kbs_wQzifuYtd0Zetqi5ZtSCoZKC8aIOrt1KWadYS3wqMznJr/s1600/janecarolantuc12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT7fJ9qtAIpe2TaINYtUa4a1D51-_mmDfUIyk5N5ioHqcn6SIR3OA30dZCHOyv32zGIIfwL2lYQVSk0qSsnW453Rz-N47kbs_wQzifuYtd0Zetqi5ZtSCoZKC8aIOrt1KWadYS3wqMznJr/s1600/janecarolantuc12.jpg" /></a></div>“We have a moral and legal obligation to help refugees”, UNISON NEC member Jane Carolan told delegates today in a moving speech backing a statement committing the General Council to campaign for Government policy to:<br />
- recognise that the UK must play a full role in supporting refugees and fulfil its moral and legal obligations to significantly upscale its resettlement programme<br />
- participate fully in a continent-wide response to the refugee crisis<br />
- make welcome tens of thousands of refugees whether from camps in the Middle East or already in Europe<br />
- .fully fund refugee resettlement, avoiding the exploitation of refugees and avoiding extra pressure on poorer inner-city communities, whilst ensuring that the international development budget is only used in line with OECD guidelines on official development assistance.<br />
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"Jane’s full speech is below.<br />
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This motion refers to events that everyone in this hall must be aware of, from the images that have been beamed into our homes on a nightly basis. I would hope that no one in this hall watches them with anything other than compassion and pity.<br />
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These events have been detailed by speakers on this statement.<br />
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But listen carefully and read carefully the commentary on these tragic events.<br />
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The language that accompanies these images dehumanises and demonises.<br />
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Migrants always migrants are processed.<br />
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Not their passports <br />
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Not their papers <br />
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Migrants are processed.<br />
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Along the routes travelled Migrants are rounded up on a regular basis and sent to camps.<br />
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Witness Police stopping trains in Hungary and ordering off those aboard to alight for detention. <br />
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Meanwhile their government spends a hundred million euros to build a barbed wire fence and Denmark takes adverts in the press saying turn up here and we’ll throw you back. <br />
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These attitudes seem eerily reminiscent of a previous era in European history and indeed some pronouncements about a so called new fifth column in Europe can only be described as racist. <br />
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Our Prime Minister, to misquote a previous holder of that office, is tough on migrants and tougher on the causes of migrants. <br />
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In total the UK has currently a total of 28,000 asylum seekers of whom 14,000 are behind bars in detention camps. From the start of the Syrian conflict only 216 refugees have been admitted, 34, yes 34 last year. <br />
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Asylum seekers and subject to detention, poverty and discrimination.<br />
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Meanwhile Cameron apparently believes that further secret bombing attacks on Syria will resolve the problems their ignoring the real evidence and learning nothing from interventions in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, that have solved nothing and indeed themselves have contributed to the mass of humanity trying to escape from war zones. <br />
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The opposite reaction to this is seen in the spontaneous actions taken by thousands of ordinary citizens. British holidaymakers among others greeting refugees in Lesbos and Kos with food and water. <br />
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Communities coming together to collect goods from food to tents and blankets to soap and toothbrushes and clothing and arranging to transport across Europe. <br />
Families and individuals prepared to throw open their own doors, to welcome those needing shelter.<br />
Churches charities and community groups speaking out and asking why we sit back and let this happen.<br />
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These people recognise what this morally bankrupt government can’t. <br />
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That we have a moral and legal obligation to help.<br />
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We have recognised the UN refugee charter since 1951. <br />
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A refugee by the 1951 convention is defined as a person fleeing an armed conflict or persecution and who is in need of protection as it is too dangerous for them to return home. Recognition as a refugee should mean housing benefits and integration into society.<br />
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Syria is in the grip of a civil war where there are many displaced people.<br />
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Likewise Libya <br />
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These are the primary places where refugees originate. Those who are currently on the road in many cases trying to walk into Europe. <br />
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The total number of those currently on the move represent less than 1% of the population of the EU. <br />
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Across the EU these numbers can be integrated.<br />
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And the UK can take its share of this humanitarian tragedy.<br />
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20,000 over the next five years is the least that we should be able to do.<br />
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All the governments throughout the UK need to recognise however that for refugees to be successfully integrated into our communities they need to be supported by our public services and that cannot be done where those public services are stretched to the limit.<br />
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Our local authorities already have the experience to do this – we have done so already.<br />
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Providing educational opportunities in our schools, when we have the necessary education stuff – not just teachers, but all the support staff – and the places in schools and the resources to do so.<br />
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Providing family support through social services departments, through childcare experts who have the experience of dealing with traumatised children and families, where they are given the time to make provision.<br />
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Providing additional housing resources to deal with additional housing need.<br />
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And we need to provide access to health services, particularly through appropriate community health services.<br />
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Previous experience tells us that this investment results in committed young families making a positive contribution to our communities.<br />
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Widening our cultural understanding.<br />
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And yes, these families becoming responsible citizens and paying that investment back through becoming tax payers.<br />
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This is not special pleading; this is being morally responsible as we believe that we should be.<br />
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Please support this statement and support efforts in your local community to makes its content a reality.UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-46587988684087523702015-09-05T16:38:00.004+01:002015-09-05T16:38:54.784+01:00Pay - doing nothing is not an option<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QTkMybbUkbCRaTxs5JYLtQ2qG350N_v3Ks1_aZQSTFMNjLdQ8dzaRCNY5Dg2YJUK_XV_IlpwDwQEUTax_WVhQfD30XoVjOcbygAZQ3l1o98GI9yPCPLYW7kRG0X7nJxzseQNeaHYdoAM/s1600/paysummit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QTkMybbUkbCRaTxs5JYLtQ2qG350N_v3Ks1_aZQSTFMNjLdQ8dzaRCNY5Dg2YJUK_XV_IlpwDwQEUTax_WVhQfD30XoVjOcbygAZQ3l1o98GI9yPCPLYW7kRG0X7nJxzseQNeaHYdoAM/s1600/paysummit.jpg" /></a></div>On Thursday a national pay summit was held at UNISON head office with representatives in attendance from all regions and service groups. Co-chaired by President Wendy Nichols and NEC Policy Chair Jane Carolan, the seminar was opened by General Secretary Dave Prentis who set out a context of Government long term 1% pay restraint, relentless public services cuts, vicious attacks on tax credits and the huge threat posed by the Trade Union Bill. <a href="https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2015/09/special-unison-summit-plans-to-tackle-pay-freeze/" target="_blank">https://www.unison.org.uk/news/article/2015/09/special-unison-summit-plans-to-tackle-pay-freeze/</a><br />
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In a speech outlining the challenges facing UNISON branches and members in local government, SGE Chair Glen Williams posed the big question to delegates - 'Does anyone here think doing nothing is an option in terms of a pay campaign?' With national pay disputes progressing in further education and probation, the local government NJC claim recently submitted as well as an all member consultation on a 2.5% two year offer in Scotland, that question will be answered soon enough (full speech below).<a name='more'></a><br />
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'Thank you for the opportunity to present a Local Government view on lessons that might be learned from our Service Groups recent pay disputes covered by the NJC. SJC and FSA. These comments are based on Chairing the LGSGE throughout all those disputes, being on the SGLC and an active and vocal North West Rep on the NJC and working closely with Scottish colleagues. I welcome the chance to have this forum in which we can speak openly and honestly and constructively critically recognising strengths and weaknesses. I have only 4 points to outline – the Local Government context; needing to be taken seriously; leadership…. and the need for real action not more talk shops.<br />
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<b>Point 1 – The context for Local Government has to be understood </b><br />
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We are the poor relations of all service groups, suffered the cuts and attacks more than rest but disproportionately within the different regions at different stages of attack and this was reflected in the varying levels of anger in the recent pay dispute as different Regional are at different points of feeling the pain of the cuts. The political context of the employers and the fragmented privatised nature of much of the services created real organisational challenges also reflected in schools and free schools academies and the whole frustration involved in balloting of various sections at a time when other sections of our union were considering or actively preparing to be balloted.<br />
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Local Government outside of Scotland have an uncompromising set of national employers who laugh and sneer at prospect of us in LG causing any major disruption by taking industrial action is a reality. The LGA see and treat us as impotent…… making pay negotiations extremely difficult if not impossible.<br />
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<b>Point 2 – To be Taken Seriously</b> - are we as a union actually serious about tackling low and poor pay within local government services, breaking the central government pay policy for the next 5 years – they have thrown down the gauntlet and we have to be seen to respond. We need to learn from Glasgow Homelessness workers – how was it successful and how was it sustained? We need to learn from Future Directions in my own region – how was it successful and how was it sustained? Why did they succeed and can that be extrapolated and applied to larger disputes. Does anyone here think doing nothing is an option in terms of a Pay Campaign? We need to address the different regional challenges without fear of being criticised, but we need to address them with a new mind-set of making our actions count and not looking to be defeated before we have even started.<br />
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Point 3 - Leadership - We need to stop blaming the members for not taking action and ask ourselves as the Leaders how to change the mind-set of the employers and the mind-set of our Membership. If any of us as the leaders believe this is impossible or in the too difficult to do box then this meeting is the chance to share those fears. I do not pretend it will be easy to change the mind-set of employers or Members but also believe doing nothing on Pay is not an option and we as the leaders have to lead.<br />
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We are the leaders, we are the leadership and we need to have and win the arguments with our members. We know the density issues, we know the daily challenges and the economic and political context and have to take them seriously but we must act differently and be seen to be act differently.<br />
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<b>Point 4 – no more talk shops. </b>Actions needed, financial commitment to supporting action, action around campaigns that raise pay and living standards – ethical care charter, unsocial hours working in Health or campaign around working tax credit attacks as well as Pay, income, remuneration, equal pay.<br />
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LG is committed to working jointly with other bargaining groups but we have to drop and change the mind-set of member apathy and job insecurity, false start strike dates, sister union domination and tail wagging the dog. No more one day gesture strikes but an unprecedented and united commitment to sustained pay campaigning over the next 5 years.<br />
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1. Pay anniversaries of the various sectors have to be united <br />
2. Co-ordination of action and campaigns has to be managed differently and more effectively within our own union and with sister unions <br />
3. Message from us as the Leaders has to be we are serious about Pay injustice, we will fight back and lead, we will put money where our mouths are we will build up treasure chest and develop branch levies, we will lead on campaigns that tackle pay injustice <br />
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• End Pay Injustice <br />
• Action will need to take place before TU Bill is enacted <br />
• Action needs to be targeted, selected and funded – smarter action. <br />
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<b>To conclude then - Key lessons from Local Government are:</b><br />
1. The need for us to take the lead and to help change the mind-set of our members and the employers. If we are serious and act seriously about Pay we might be taken seriously as we all know it will take enormous action and different types of campaigns and pressure to change the pay policy of this government – but doing nothing is not an option<br />
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2. Unity between NJC and SGE, unity between elected and selected leadership and greater transparency of negotiations and related processes<br />
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3. Unity with other sister unions but also a greater preparedness to tackle the games played by the other unions rather than shoulder the responsibility as the biggest union.<br />
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4. We need a ballot section properly resourced and supported <br />
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5. Finally, on the anniversary of the day Britain and France declared war on the enemy we need to declare war on pay injustice. This is the start of a new approach to a key issue that is critical to our Members. My Region has already devised a different 4 pronged approach that I am sure they will share during the day but most important of all is for us to agree and enact a radical strategy and not be back here next year still talking about it.' UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-7796590715582235412015-08-24T09:31:00.000+01:002015-08-24T09:31:16.666+01:00Can the leadership debate re-engage Labour supporters?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is sad to see process overtaking politics in the Labour leadership debate, especially because the campaign had at least contained something about visions and policies and how best to deliver on them.<br />
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That is what has engaged the thousands who have turned out to hear Corbyn. Many of them are young and have been enlivened by a political debate on austerity that has been completely missing from the mainstream (except perhaps in Scotland but even there we detect a gradual awakening that SNP rhetoric and policy on that issue are two different things).<br />
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Engaging so many people in that debate surely can’t be a bad thing. So has it re-engaged disaffected Labour supporters?<br />
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The vibrancy of the leadership campaign is driven by the Corbyn phenomenon but Burnham and Cooper were also campaigning on policies and we have started to hear debates in workplaces and pubs about austerity, about leadership and about who would be best placed to re-vitalise Labour as an electoral force. It is not at the level of the independence referendum but there is a debate going on and that can only be a good thing.<br />
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Now that is all at risk as the shenanigans about the ‘registered supporter’ process gives the public confirmation of their view that politicians will fiddle anything if they can and Labour couldn’t organise a small refreshment in a brewery.<br />
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Since the reality is that the process is now dominating coverage of the debate, we need to look at what is right or wrong about that process – especially for the 2.7 million trade unionists who pay the political levy that funds a major part of the Labour Party’s organisation. <br />
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On 12 August it was reported that only 189,703 of them had registered to vote in the leadership election. There should have been many more and the failure of organisation with our own members – and engagement in the political process – should be the priority to address rather than anything else.<br />
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However, it is still far more than the 121,295 non-levy paying people who had registered with the £3 supporter’s fee. So most of the people who have signed up are union members who would have had a vote anyway under the old system through their union. <br />
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The difference this time is that each vote will count exactly the same as the individual vote of an MP as opposed to the votes of 232 MPs carrying the same weight as 2.7 million trade union levy payers – effectively giving each MP the equivalent of more than 11,600 votes.<br />
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In that context the change looks like a good thing. But it removed automatic voting rights from union levy payers and it broke the important principle of collective affiliation to the party. In any organisation that purports to support working people, collectivism is the only way to balance establishment power.<br />
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Of course we are not naïve enough to think the change was all about empowerment. It did not envisage those members voting for the ‘wrong’ candidate. Neither did it envisage that the ‘registered supporter’ would deliver anything other than supporters who were pretty middle of the road. <br />
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It was all a bit of a mixter-maxter, it was poorly thought out and it was always going to be a problem. Not least of those problems is the effect on fee paying full members or levy paying union members – the people who keep the party afloat. How do they feel when anyone can just sign up for £3 and vote? And of course, there was always going to be a problem vetting people.<br />
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But everybody knew this as the Labour Conference effectively nodded it all through. So why all the hullabaloo now?<br />
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Vince Hill in the ‘Labour Hame’ blog has one analysis: <i>“Years of pursuit by the Blairite right of one member one vote and primaries, where supporters can select Labour candidates, should according to these very Blairites be reversed overnight because the potential result does not suit the ‘aspirations’ – and how they love that word – of Labour’s existing and wannabe elite.” </i><a href="http://labourhame.com/pathology-and-political-amnesia/#more-5339" target="_blank">http://labourhame.com/pathology-and-political-amnesia/#more-5339</a> Perhaps a bit hard on Burnham but it does strike a nerve.<br />
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We are now in a situation where whoever is elected will have a cloud hanging over them about whether the election was above board. Anyone, left or right, using that to build for a major split would only be heading for a self-serving disaster. When we talk of lessons from the past, that is the one that should take centre stage.<br />
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So let’s try to move back to policies. We are told we need the ‘right’ ones to get elected. It was not attacking austerity that failed to get Labour elected. It was a shadow cabinet after 2010 that failed to articulate that the Tory cuts were political and not economic and there was an alternative to austerity. That wasn’t a failure of presentation, it was because many of them didn’t believe there was an alternative. You don’t provide a credible alternative by saying we’ll do austerity better than the Tories.<br />
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Things have moved on. The alarm bells of ‘lurches to the left’ in the past do not apply in the same way now as they did in the past. Things are different. The so-called centre ground has moved to the right and Labour has chased it instead of trying to pull it back. The 2015 manifesto made some moves that way but too little too late. The label of ‘hard-left’ needs to be seen in relation to the centre having been pulled significantly to the right.<br />
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Many of us are highly sceptical about reports of mass infiltration from whatever quarter but if there is a problem it is time to get it sorted – based on evidence not allegations – and get back to debating the policies.<br />
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Another hat tip to ‘Labour Hame’, this time from Jamie Glackin, Chair of the Scottish Labour Party, pointing out what the real challenge is: <i>“When all is said and done in the UK leadership contest, we all have to return to what brought us into the Labour Party in the first place – our mission to improve the life chances of working people. We are unlikely to be in a position to make progress on that if we are still fighting each other rather than the Conservatives.”</i> <a href="http://labourhame.com/we-must-find-unity-after-strife" target="_blank">http://labourhame.com/we-must-find-unity-after-strife</a>/<br />
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<i>JS</i>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-80603324661351482992015-08-23T13:33:00.000+01:002015-08-23T13:33:25.796+01:00Labour ballot: The curious case of the Tory and the vote<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Andy Burnham has expressed concerns that Tories may have been given votes in the Labour leadership election and many in Corbyn’s camp have been quick to dismiss this as scaremongering, or as means to invalidate the election outcome. Parking politics to one side this election has turned into a very curious way to run a ballot.<br />
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I work with an former Tory councillor who has received several mail shots from candidates as a ‘registered supporter’. He hasn’t been mischievous about this but his name for one reason or another over the years got onto Labour mailing lists. He jokingly quipped that he could have registered three votes using different email addresses, family names and accounts if he could be bothered – because it really is that easy to register as a supporter. <br />
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Moreover the Labour Party like all others attract commercial exhibitors and sponsors to their conference and I know (having been one) that this then leads to party mail shots for future events - and links to the party website. At the last Labour Party conference when queuing to go through security some boorish morons were bragging to each other about being ‘at the wrong conference’. It turned out they were from a polling / lobbying firm that work predominantly for the Tory party. Precisely the kind of people with enough childish intent who could register as supporters and get a vote. What happened to the need to be a member of a party to have a say? The supposed validator checks on newly registered supporter would merely reveal they have previously been admitted to conference – job done.<br />
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It is not just Tories we should be worried about – whether or not you support Corbyn it is just plain wrong for other party members to piggy back on the Labour party’s own election. The fact that a Green party member or supporter (note the bleating of Jeremy Hardy) likes Corbyn doesn’t give them a right to a say in a party that they do not belong to – ‘registered supporter’ is an entirely naïve concept. On that basis we could open up our own General Secretary election to UNITE or GMB members because generally they are supportive of UNISON as fellow trade unionists. It is a nonsense. <br />
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It is of course a legacy of the naivity of Milifandom – surround yourself with kids and goofy policy wonks and you get an election process that is just about fit to elect a school council.<br />
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<b><i>Tomorrow:</i></b> Has the election re-engaged Labour supporters?UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8656174868765631990.post-40444779480029047472015-08-15T08:33:00.004+01:002015-08-15T08:33:51.869+01:00Kenny Bell remembered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJ6Kwy3bTw&feature=youtu.be" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyRpMvCeTFjJ12Vmxu1j5zg_NYaotqU79TntJqNJ2fLLZQG7zPNj7MwTHiWj9jfpZTAaR7opABSrmbElHsKpzXHBsjzNrEqcwKn1vTdZHxH1pIcyw2K5hmO3MCnNK_OtEX4pE7p9T7C2ow/s1600/kennybell4video.jpg" /></a></div>On the 4th anniversary of his death, Colombian human rights organisation Nomadesc has produced a video tribute to the late Kenny Bell, Newcastle UNISON Branch Secretary and deputy Regional Convenor Northern Region. <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJ6Kwy3bTw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJ6Kwy3bTw&feature=youtu.be</a>UNISON frontlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14191797799525162237noreply@blogger.com