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June
2007
Socialist Party UNISON
Conference newspaper pdf (500k)
Public Sector Pay Freeze:
The Government is leading a
charge to impose pay cuts on millions of public sector workers by
setting a limit of 2%.
By Glenn Kelly, NEC member
(personal capacity) and Adrian O’Malley Wakefield Health (personal
capacity)
This insulting offer is
despite the fact that the inflation rate is at its highest in ten
years at 4.3%. So while our rents, mortgages and council tax bills
increase, we’re expected to find the money with less pay.
Also in this
conference pdf:
Blair has gone, Brown is crowned but it’s time to build
a new workers’ party
Say NO to the remodelling deal mk2
The BNP:
The fact that there is only one motion
on UNISON national conference about the racist, far-right British National
Party (BNP) does not reflect the very real concern of UNISON members about the
rise of the BNP
Pensions: the government lied to us
What are we going to do about it?
Reject the leadership proposal to accept what’s on
offer
The Socialist 15 December 2006
Glasgow’s New Labour council have been forced to
retreat in the face of a massive strike over their plans to cut the
pay of 4,500 council workers.
Ronnie Stevenson, Unison Convenor, Glasgow
City Council Social Work Services Shop Stewards (Personal Capacity)
Following a very good ballot for strike action
and facing a three day strike this week involving 11,000 Unison
members that would have brought council services to a halt, Glasgow
City Unison and Glasgow City Council have now agreed protection
arrangements arising from their Workforce Pay and Benefits Review.
More ...
September 2006
An Employment Tribunal ruling on equal pay has panicked
both employers and trade union leaders throughout local government. But it
is a trade union, in this case the GMB, that has been found guilty of
discrimination and victimisation on gender lines against its own members!
The decision, on behalf of low-paid women workers in
Middlesbrough, which will be appealed, may, according to press reports,
cost the GMB £1 million.
Unison activists in the Socialist Party examine the implications
and pitfalls that unions face.
More ...
August
2006
Whipps Cross hospital strike:
PUBLIC HEALTH NOT PRIVATE PROFIT
LOW-PAID ancillary workers were on the picket line outside Whipps
Cross hospital in east London on 14 and 15 August. "We are determined to
get a just settlement of our claim", joint UNISON branch secretary Len
Hockey told the socialist.
June 2006
UNISON conference:
UNISON'S ANNUAL conference displayed a growing anger and questioning
from delegates towards the union's leadership. Ken Smith reports from Unison conference.
What had looked like being a quiet conference turned into a display
of some deep-rooted anger with the union leadership over issues like the
link with the Labour Party, the NHS and the local government pensions
dispute.
April
2005
LAST MONTH’S election for the general secretary of
the public services union, UNISON, Britain’s biggest trade union, revealed a
lot about the state of the unions and the union left.
In depth analysis from Socialism Today, the Socialist
Party's monthly magazine
More ...
March 2005
 UNISON
National Executive Council Elections 2005
VOTE for a fighting, democratic union
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pdf (65k, opens in new window)
March 2005
Results of UNISON General Secretary election declared
Good result for Roger Bannister
Click here for
analysis of results and interview with Roger Bannister
- Dave Prentis (existing
general
secretary)
184,769 (76%)
- Roger
Bannister
41, 406 (17%)
- Jon Rogers UL candidate
18,306 (7.5%)
Turnout 16.6% (Membership entitled to vote: 1,476,488)
January 2005
SOCIALIST PARTY member Roger Bannister will be
challenging public sector union UNISON's link with the Labour Party in the
forthcoming general secretary election.
 How
to resist New Labour's attacks
Challenge
to UNISON'S Labour links by UNISON general secretary candidate
Roger
Bannister an official candidate
October 2004
UNISON
general secretary election from The Socialist 23 October 2004
For A Fighting Leadership
THE GENERAL secretary election in
public sector union UNISON has started. Socialist Party member Roger
Bannister is standing as: "A fighting general secretary on a worker's
wage". Roger spoke to the socialist this week about why he is standing.
More...
7 August 2004
Feature: THE PAY and job evaluation package
for health workers, Agenda for Change (AFC) is proving a problem for
management and the national trade union leaders.
Disturbing reports have now been received from
England's 'early implementers' and from Scotland.
More ...
Local Government Pay
by Vicky Ingram, National Local Government Committee (personal capacity)
The pay offer must be rejected! 2.75% is not enough
for this year nor is 2.95% enough for the next two.
There is no guarantee that the British economy will
‘remain’ stable for the next two years and year 2’s offer is not
inflation proofed.
Full story...
Statement by Socialist Party Members in UNISON
Withdrawal from United Left
After a great deal of careful consideration and
discussion Socialist Party members in UNISON have decided to withdraw from
the UNISON United Left group.
It is with some regret that this decision has been
taken, given our desire to see the maximum possible unity on the left
against the right wing and the right-oriented bureaucracy...
Full story...
Schools
Remodelling:
No Deal!
The government has brought in an Agreement that
seeks to cheapen teaching costs in schools and to use our members as the
battering ram!
Despite government claims to have boosted
funding for schools, they will face a funding shortfall of £1 billion over
the next three years.
Full story...
Unison Conference 2004
As each day passes the anger of members against new
Labour grows. Relentless attacks from PFI, Foundation hospitals, low pay and
War, have led millions to disassociate themselves from New labour.
Full story...
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