Please see below for the text of recent circular which contains details of the latest developments in the ongoing SSSNB negotiations. It was reported in circular ED/47/10 that TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, would write to the Secretary of State,…
Please click on the following link to read the report from UNISON North West on the recent Local Government Service Group Executive & Policy Seminar. Note that this link will take you to the UNISON Active blogging website.
Please read through the summary of quotes below from the Lib Dem manifesto which have now been exposed as untrue by UNISON North West. For your reference you can also download a copy of the manifesto by clicking on the…
We have all heard the rubbish that the ConDem coalition has come out with to justify their ideologically driven cuts. Below is a selection of ConDem lies along with UNISON’s truth. Put some Tories and LibDems on the spot by…
Please click on the link below to view a PDF version of Schools News Winter 2010. If you wish to save this document for viewing or printing later, you should click the right-mouse button over the link and select Save Target…
The SSSNB has been abolished by the Con-Dem government. Although this decision was expected, it will still be a huge disappointment for many UNISON members. The decision to abolish it was in a leaked document from the Cabinet Office in…
Like you I am extremely angry at the abolition of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB). For years we have been lobbying successive governments over the need to introduce a national framework for support staff, which would have introduced…
But you don’t have to take UNISON’s word for it. Commentators, economists, heath analysts, charities and others from across the political spectrum are worried at the Condems’ policy of savage cuts to the public sector. It wasn’t public services or…
The Branch has organised many meetings across Manchester City Council workplaces to discuss the City Council’s “m people” proposals. For those that want more information, check the latest Branch Mancunion newsletter which was dedicated to this issue. The last Branch…
George Osborne has condemned the country to decades of hardship and the people to unnecessary wholesale unemployment, with his “ideologically driven, no hope, no ideas, cuts review” warned UNISON, the UK’s largest public service union. The government has failed to…