Public services keep our communities strong, healthy and safe. Yet the coalition government is making reckless spending cuts which will condemn us to 400,000 public service job losses. That’s the estimate of the government’s own Office of Budget Responsibility, but…
International Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2011 – Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living At 12 midday on Thursday 28 April UNISON members across the North West, plus many others across the UK, will take part in a…
Cuts Are Not The Cure from Unionfilms on Vimeo.
Voting for the 2011 UNISON NEC elections starts on 11th April and it’s now more important than ever that every member of our Branch makes their vote count. The NEC is the most important body within our union which leads…
The massive turn out in London on the 26 March for the TUC organised March for the Alternative demonstrated that huge numbers of people from across the UK have real concerns about the direction the ConDem government is taking us.…
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…
Are the cuts a necessary response to an economic crisis? Is there a crisis, and if so what is it? Is there an alternative approach? The answers to these questions are “No”; “Not Really, There’s A Crisis of Capital –…
You may have seen some of the media coverage today of the Hutton report into public sector pensions. I have been interviewed on national BBC TV, Channel 4, ITV, the Today programme, 5 Live, many regional radio stations and by…
What is being proposed for British public services are the most radical changes since the Second World War. And none of us voted for it; because very little of what the ConDem government are now undertaking was in their election…
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