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caledonianunion

Spirits high on day three of our Industrial Action - The local Public Service Union PCS were a welcome addition to today’s picket line with Lindsay Morgan and Magnus Hughson bringing along their local banner....
12 hours ago
UCU scotland

Messages of solidarity for industrial action - On behalf of the CWU Edinburgh Dundee & Borders Branch we send a strong message of solidarity to our sisters and brothers in UCU who continue to challenge ...
3 days ago
UNISON Edinburgh

UNISON News Feb 2020 - UNISON NEWS FEBRUARY 2020 This issues includes updates on: Branch AGM New Office Move Environmental Officer Consolidation of Living Wage The post UNISON ...
5 days ago
Dave Watson

How pension funds can invest responsibly - In the last few months, I have completed three projects on Responsible Investment (also known as Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)) in the pension...
6 days ago
Aberdeen Trades Union Council

Free showing of the film WitchHunt and panel discussion - Please come along to a showing of the film, WitchHunt and a panel discussion on Tuesday 25th February 7-9pm at the Belmont Filmhouse, 49 Belmont Street, A...
1 week ago
Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation

Day of Nelson Mandela’s release – a personal reminiscence. David Kenvyn on the front line of celebrations in 1990 - On 2nd February 1990, President FW De Klerk went to the South African Parliament and announced the unbanning of the ANC and other political organisations. ...
1 week ago
Labour Hame

The wisdom of the crowd - Alastair Osborne considers the processes behind collective decision-making – like the selection of a new leader which the UK Labour Party is currently deba...
2 weeks ago
Stevenson's repository

Socialist ideals must be nurtured, not allowed to dissipate - *First published in the Morning Star on 24 December 2019: * Labour has a job on its hands to claw back from the toxic image it seems to have with many voter...
1 month ago
UNISON Scotland

This COP has failed people & planet. People power, Climate Justice! - Climate campaigners from around the world have hit out angrily at UN climate talks in Madrid failing to deliver for the people and the planet. Civil societ...
2 months ago
Trade Unions for Scottish Labour - Blog

Seeing the wood for the trees... - [...]
2 months ago
home - Stirling Unison

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 ...
5 months ago
Ramsden's Reservoir

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...
5 months ago
Public Works Blog

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...
6 months ago
Notes on Nationalism

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...
7 months ago
News | The Keir Hardie Society | Founded 2010 for Peace, Socialism and Equality

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. ...
9 months ago
Govan Law Centre

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 ...
9 months ago
redpaper.net

Time for a Radical Scottish Parliament - 2019 RED PAPER March Click to view
11 months ago
Revitalise Scottish Labour

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
Grumping with the Captain

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...
2 years ago
There is a Better Way

“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
Home - SNP Trade Union Group

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
Scotland Group - The People's Assembly Against Austerity

What are Class Politics - Morning Star Conference - Part of "Redeveloping Class Politics" Conference.
4 years ago
UNISON Active

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
Scottish Left Project

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Saturday, 4 April 2015

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