Saturday, 5 July 2014
All systems go for July 10 national pay strike!
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#J10strike Enormous momentum is building for next Thursday's NJC pay strike in England, Northern Ireland and Wales with UNISON being joi...
Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim
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As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the ...
Friday, 4 July 2014
Avoiding a stooshie becoming a stramash
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From a Scottish Correspondent: There's a referendum going on in these parts and it's caused in UNISON what we call a stooshie. A...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
David MacLennan – Plays, Politics and Popularity
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I was in Italy when the news came through via a friend on Twitter. David MacLennan, the theatre writer, director and producer, had lost his ...
Sunday, 22 June 2014
Another anti austerity demonstration, another media blackout
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Over 50,000 attended yesterday’s London demonstration organised by the People’s Assembly against austerity and speakers included media c...
The Song of the Wage-slave by Robert W. Service
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When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't be hell-fire, as some of the parsons say. And ...
Monday, 16 June 2014
NHS can be Labour’s general election game changer
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The NHS is an issue which can win Labour the general election writes Kevin Maguire in today’s Mirror: ‘Miliband is handicapped by his failur...
UNISON up for the fight in Local Government
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#uNDC14 At UNISON's local government service group conference, Glen Williams, SGE Chair, gave a wide ranging review of the union's w...
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Democracy is the lifeblood of trade unionism
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#uNDC14 'As well as the formal policy debates over four days there will be the opportunity to attend fringe meetings for high quality de...
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
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The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible stitches along the collar Turned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysia...
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