Commenting on research from the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) that there could be one million workers on zero hours contracts, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, said: “The vast majority of workers are only on these contracts…
*UPDATE* A map of the route, including start and expected finish times, has now been made available and is embedded into this post below. A protest has been organised to take place on Tuesday 30th July against the Government cuts…
Embedded into this post are a number of documents which we have been asked to share on behalf of Mike Booth, Regional Lead for LGPS Governance. The Branch is looking for your feedback on the arrangements so please can you…
NATIONAL UNION LEADERS SPEAKING OUT TO DEFEND NHS The NW TUC Rally for the NHS will take place on Friday 5th July, at 7pm at Manchester Town Hall. Confirmed speakers are Dave Prentis, UNISON , Len McCluskey, UNITE, Debbie…
Whilst our Branch recorded a good turnout in the consultation exercise and rejected the 1% pay offer by a ration of 3 : 1 and we had a good Regional result unfortunately this was not reflected elsewhere other than in…
Please note that as of 1st July the Branch will be moving to Room 321 in Manchester Town Hall. Whilst disruption will be kept to a minimum there may be temporary delays in terms of telephones and email connections. You…
The morning session of conference was given over to Motions on combating the Government’s austerity programme. Motion 10 “Bargaining Through Austerity” focussed on the effect of austerity on the terms and conditions of our members and committed us to continue…
Tuesday marked the first day of the 2013 UNISON National Delegate Conference. The first item on the agenda was simply entitled “Welcome to Liverpool”. It proved to be a rousing welcome from guest speaker Ricky Tomlinson. Ricky gave an impassioned…
The morning session of day two of UNISON Local Government Conference opened with guest speaker Jennette Arnold, Chair of the London Assembly, Labour Group who spoke frankly about the effect on London of Boris Johnson’s time as Mayor. Jennette was…
Yesterday marked the first day of UNISON’s 20th Local Government Conference. Branch Secretary Pat McDonagh had already been busy before conference as part of his role on the Standing Orders Committee, assessing motions, prioritising them and adding them to the…