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Hope not Hate – Premiere Issue Now Available
I’m delighted to tell you that HOPE not hate has just arrived back from the printers and is now ready for distribution. With forty-eight pages of news, views and comment, HOPE not hate is the new bi-monthly, full-colour magazine of the HOPE not hate campaign. I hope you will consider getting a copy. The magazine [...]
Help Save Our NHS
The government’s Health and Social Care Bill, currently going through parliament, puts the NHS in danger by threatening the very principles it was built on. It will fragment and privatise our NHS to the detriment of patients and services. UNISON has been leading the fight against these plans since their introduction and more and more [...]
Annual General Meeting 2012
The UNISON Manchester Branch Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 7 March at 2012 at 12.45 pm in the Friends Meeting House, (behind Central Library), Mount Street, Manchester. Preliminary agendas have now been issued in the post to all members. All members are urged to attend – any questions, just get in touch with [...]
Thanks for your support
On behalf of the UNISON Manchester Branch, I would like to thank stewards and members for all the hard work they put in to make the strike, march and rally on November 30 such a tremendous success. To those who helped in the organising before the day, and all those who got in early to [...]
Make Government listen to us on Wednesday
This is an historic week for our union. From the Shetland Isles to Southampton, nurses, social workers, PCSOs, librarians, dinner ladies, teaching assistants, bin men and paramedics – among many other public sector workers – will be standing shoulder to shoulder and marching, demonstrating, holding rallies, and even painting children’s faces, as millions strike to protect public [...]
Marches and Rallies in the North West on 30th November
There are number of marches and rallies taking place on the 30th November in the North West region which UNISON members can get involved with to show their support for the industrial action. For information we have included a list of all the planned events along with contact details in case you wish to ask [...]
Picket briefing meetings
Branch has organised a series of picket briefing meetings at the Branch Office for UNISON Stewards and activists. These have been arranged for volunteers who are picketing and wish to receive information and a briefing on arrangements for the strike on 30th November. Leaflets, placards and other materials will be available for collection at each [...]
Pensions trends survey- UNISON response
UNISON, the UK’s largest union, said that today’s Office of National Statistics pensions trends survey* revealed that not enough people are saving for their later years – storing up a huge benefits timebomb for the taxpayer. The survey shows that the real pensions crisis is in the private sector – where membership of schemes has [...]
Get the Pensions Facts…
UNISON nationally has provided the attached briefing materials for Stewards and members on the pensions dispute. There’s a Powerpoint presentation and speaker notes. Members are free to use these materials, so they are fully informed and armed with the facts, not the spin. The Branch will be holding workplace meetings over the next couple of [...]
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