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Good To Meet You

Name: Ruth Carr Job: Library Information Officer How long have you been a member of the union? 31years. What do you like about your role in UNISON? Meeting people from all over the North West with the same values and…

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Frizzell Cricket Competition

UNISON sponsors Frizzell have kindly donated two tickets for a County Championship game at Lancashire CCC of your choice. To enter this members’ only competition, simply write to the Branch before 15 August 2010 and tell us who is Lancashire’s…

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Osborne’s first Budget?

It’s wrong, wrong, wrong! And it’s not just the trade unions who are worried about the Government’s austerity programme. Many economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prizewinner who predicted the global crisis, predicts the Chancellor’s first Budget will take the…

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The Coalition cuts into Public Services

It was a full house for the Branch AGM back in February where Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, was the guest speaker. He spoke powerfully about the challenges the public sector would likely face from an incoming government, forced to…

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In my view

In my view… “If it wasn’t already obvious beforehand, it is now abundantly clear after the emergency budget just who wears the trousers in the Con Dem coalition. Make no mistake: this was an unashamedly Tory budget, and a massive…

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The truth about local government pensions

Public Sector Pension Schemes are under almost daily attack in the press. Claims that the schemes are unaffordable, gold plated or featherbedded have become repeated almost daily in some newspapers. Statements like pensions ‘black hole’, ‘pension apartheid’, ‘unsustainable perk’ etc…

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Big Society – Big cop out – Warns UNISON

Commenting on the launch of David Cameron’s ‘big society’, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, the UK’s largest public service union, said: “Cameron’s “big society” should be renamed the “big cop out.” Make no mistake this plan is all about…

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Misery goes on for local government workers

UNISON, the union representing 850,000 local government workers, hit back at local government employers who are refusing low paid staff, including nursery workers, home carers, housing workers, leisure and parks staff, school meals and cleaning, the £250 pay rise promised…

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