Saturday, 19 February 2011
Tackling child poverty - What kind of society do we want?
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If you can judge a society by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, you have to wonder what it says about ours that nearly four millio...
I Speak of Palestine by Robert Green
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I speak of your insistence on believing what you’re told to be so blind: you must have learned what not to know to be so cold that you ...
Friday, 18 February 2011
'No to public service cuts which harm women' - Angela Lynes, UNISON President
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The UNISON 2011 Women’s Conference, meeting in Harrogate Yorkshire, yesterday heard a fighting speech from UNISON President Angela Lynes.
If you are a public sector pensioner, read this and weep then get angry
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While the Government U turn on the privatisation of forestry caused much hilarity yesterday, matters probably of a much deeper concern to UN...
Bankers Continue to Feast
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While pay for workers who actually contribute to society, public service and manufacturing is cut back, pay at Europe’s four largest investm...
US Public Sector Trade Unions Take a Stand - Show Solidarity with our sister Union AFSCME
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Wisconsin is the birthplace of AFSCME. They have a long and proud history in the state. In a matter of days, all they have built there over ...
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Egyptian unions continue the fight for lasting political change
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In today’s Guardian Seumas Milne gives a superb analysis of the political situation in Egypt in the wake of Mubarak’s removal as President:
Austerity budgets – made in Brussels
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Italian economics minister Giulio Tremonti emerged from a meeting of EU finance ministers, which included Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer G...
NHS safe? Tories now cutting births!
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Staff at St Georges Hospital, South London have acted with growing shock and anger at the announcement that 500 posts ( almost 10% of the wo...
UNISON Active analysis: Inflation Up Again? That‘ll Be Public Sector Pay Cuts All Round
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The inflation figures released by the Bank of England on Tuesday are a grim warning for all public sector workers. UNISON Active still beli...
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