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Solidarity with the millions of school climate strikers & updates on #GreenUNISON Day - It's today! (UPDATE 6pm - see below for a range of pictures of today's #GreenUNISON branch action in the workplace and on #climatestrike events - search th...
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Fossil fuel divestment – what are the issues? - UK local authority pension funds hold investments of over £16 billion in coal, oil and gas companies. These companies’ actions are making climate change ...2 days ago
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UNISON News September 2019 - September 2019 UNISON News edition This issue includes updates on: Scottish Youth Climate Strike Early Years Review Meetings Extension of The post UNISON...3 days ago
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How we can finance the future - I am in Cape Town, South Africa, this week speaking at the global summit, '*Financing the Future'.* This is a gathering of the global divest/invest movemen...
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Aberdeen joins hundreds of thousands standing together to defend democracy - I was proud to speak on behalf of UNISON at today’s Defend Democracy demo in Aberdeen yesterday, 31st August 2019. Almost 500 joined the hundreds of thousa...
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GERS unspun - Jim O’Neill achieves what many have seemingly been unable to do this week – looking at the economic assessment released by the Scottish Government and ackn...4 weeks ago
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Pay in Working Class Jobs - Millions of employees in lower and middle income jobs have had real pay reductions over the last ten years. The TUC has analysed occupational hourly pay. T...
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Action on climate change: UCU’s call for a 30 minute stoppage on 20 September in support of the climate change school strike; supporting presentation slides and draft letter on divestment. - In line with motions passed at UK UCU congress, UCU has submitted a motion to TUC congress in September calling for unions and student associations to hold...5 weeks ago
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Freeman of Glasgow, Prisoner of Apartheid – order your cards of the iconic banner - You can now support our campaign by ordering notelets and greetings cards of the iconic banner ‘Freeman of Glasgow, Prisoner of Apartheid’, created in 198...1 month ago
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ATUC endorses call from Palestinian civil society to reject IHRA working definition of anti-semitism - In 2018, Palestinian civil society issued a call (1)urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject the IHRA working definition of antisemitism whi...
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On Not Watching Panorama - Won’t be watching Panorama tonight (despite the kind offer by BBC Scotland to go on and talk about it afterwards ). Partly, I've got stuff on, but its also...2 months ago
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Inequality is the most pressing issue of our time - *First published in the Morning Star on 21 May 2019*. I am of an age when younger comrades (and indeed offspring) feel free to berate me about the mess my ...3 months ago
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AGM – 15 June 2019 - The Keir Hardie Society AGM will be held on Saturday 15 June 2019 at Cumnock Town hall starting at 11am. All the details and more in our latest Bulletin. ...3 months ago
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Highlights from the UCU LGBT+ Research conference - Mel McKenna, UCU@GCU I recently attended the 2019 LGBT+ research conference at the University of Manchester and wanted to share the highligh...3 months ago
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GLC statement on the reclaiming motion appeal in Ali v. Serco Ltd and others - Govan Law Centre (GLC) has been instructed by Mrs Shakar Omar Ali, a Kurdish Iraqi national, to pursue a reclaiming motion (appeal) before the Inner House ...
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SEC Report – September 2018 - A relative short and sweet SEC meeting today, not just because it was my last! Richard reported on his summer tour across Scotland and the issues raised wi...1 year ago
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Save the date – Branch AGMs 1st Feb in Glasgow; 14th Feb in Woodhill House and Kintore Arms Inverurie - The branch AGMs will be held on the following dates. If you are a branch member, please put these in1 year ago
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Lights! Camera! Revolution! - film from Russia and Cuba - I've written before about the role of Trades Union Councils in promoting (or should that be fomenting) working class and left political culture. Another exa...
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“The functions of the British Transport Police in Scotland will be a devolved matter” - That’s what the Smith Commission had to say about the future of railway policing in Scotland. The British Transport Police comes within the purview of the...2 years ago
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HMRC “Build Of Future” (Regional office closures debate Thursday 28th April) - HMRC is embarking on its “Build Of Future” (BoF) programme to close almost all of its current estate – going from 160+ offices to 13 regional hubs and fo...3 years ago
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What are Class Politics - Morning Star Conference - Part of "Redeveloping Class Politics" Conference.3 years ago
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Hillsborough – a broader awakening? - As the justified anger of the Hillsborough revelations unfolds will the events now bring a broader awakening to the depths the establishment and the media ...7 years ago
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