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…
Once again we see a government wanting to brick up the state education system and to make it private and selective. UNISON is at the forefront of the campaign to oppose the establishment of academies. School and community campaigns must…
UNISON is becoming increasingly concerned that there are hidden cuts and school support services are suffering. School budgets are not protected and the imminent spending cuts are about to hit schools. This will hit support staff and frontline education provision.…
UNISON has produced advice on this subject for school support staff. We believe the demand has increased and as demand has grown, so has the pressure on support staff. There is a wide range of medicine in school, administrated in…
Since the project started over 2 years ago we’ve seen a surge in UNISON membership. Over 2,000 new members have been recruited as part of the project and this is in addition to the numbers that would have ordinarily joined. …
Over the last 2 years UNISON North West has invested a lot of time and effort visiting schools to explain to support staff the work of the SSSNB. The project was made possible by a number of front line school…
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…