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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 [...]
UNISON needs your vote!
UNISON is asking its members to vote early and vote YES in the ballot for industrial action to protect public sector pensions. Ballot papers are being posted to 1.1 million UNISON members, and will start arriving from Wednesday 12 October. We need a big YES vote and a high turnout to send a clear and [...]
George Osborne Speech – UNISON response
Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, said today (3 October) that it was government ministers such as George Osborne who were behaving irresponsibly, by failing negotiate seriously and properly with trade unions over plans to drastically cut public sector pensions. The union called on the government to turn its firepower onto the real pensions crisis – the scandalous lack [...]
Manchester TUC rally a huge success
Tens of thousands of people, of all ages and from many walks of life, turned out on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in Manchester to say to the Conservative Party that Government policies were hurting and not working. The noisy and friendly demonstration wound through the city’s streets, pausing only a short while outside the Manchester [...]
Count down to action – the clock is ticking…
UNISON, the UK’s largest union, is calling on the Government to stop wasting time and start serious negotiations on public service pensions. Ballot papers are being prepared and will be going out to the union’s 1.1 million public service workers in the next few weeks, with action planned for the 30 November. Dave Prentis, General [...]
September Mancunion
The latest issue of Mancunion is now available to download from our website by opening this post, then clicking on this link.
TUC Rally, Manchester, Sunday 2 October 2011
Services that hold communities together and protect the most vulnerable in our society are being cut and privatised by the Tory-led coalition. We have seen high inflation, high unemployment, cuts in benefits, cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance and Connexions service, rising university fees, attacks on pensions and service cuts – all of which the [...]
March for the Alternative: A Huge Success!
The TUC March on Saturday 26th March was a huge success. 500,000 people, including 100,000′s of thousands of Unison members, joined the march to condemn the Government’s butchering of Britain. The numbers that attended were greater than any of the predicted forecasts and this marks a qualitative change in Britain about Government policies. Please find [...]
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