With Michelle and Val, two of my soon to be new colleagues at West Midlands UNISON I am really pleased that I have just been appointed as the new regional secretary of UNISON in the West Midlands. For those of you that dont know UNISON is the largest public service union in the UK covering areas...

The Lambeth Unison Branch AGM is scheduled to take place on the 13 th of January 2009 at Lambeth Town Hall. Paid time off has been requested. The meeting will start at 12.30, lunch will be served from 12.10 onwards. The AGM is held annually and has to conduct a number of importnat business. 1. Election of Branch Officers; 2. Approve accounts;read more

I was looking for an old file on my PC this evening and came across the text below. It was in a file path D:UsersStephenDocumentsCouncilFullCouncilBudgetspeech that was created 18 February 2003 22:51:00, modified 20 February 2003 11.12 and printed 20 February 2003 12:34:00. When I read it I was amazed by how little things had changed in Hartlepool Council Chamber over the last 6 years. So le...

The Business Secretary Peter Mandelson says UK will introduce a three strikes policy for persistent file-sharers.

Kirklees Unison union members in West Yorkshire have responded magnificently to the employer’s threat to sack and re-hire the whole workforce of 12,500. The council has informed staff that if the single status deal is not agreed by 27 February they will sack and re-engage the whole workforce on a 90 day notice. They intend to impose the new contracts from 1 June. Unison members have voted fo...

The Lambeth Branch of UNISON has submitted the following motion for consideration by the UNISON Greater London Regional Labour Link Forum, the date for which is shortly to be announced; UNISON...

UNISON has so much potential and so much promise. We, as UNISON members, could achieve so much. In the past year it was the line of the UNISON leadership which prevented an effective joint public sector struggle over pay. In the years before that it was UNISON's leadership who prevented active...

Press realease from Islington UNISON: Islington UNISON welcomes the recent news that Care UK has lost its contract to provide home care services in the borough. We have long argues this organisation is not fit for purpose in regards to these services. Care UK has been found to be woefully inadequate in all the services that it provides to the local authority and in that respect, UNISON believes th...

Date: 22 April 2010 UNISON General Secretary Candidate calls for joint action to fight College cuts Contact for enquiries: 07983592 998 Paul Holmes, rank and file candidate in the forthcoming election for Unison General Secretary today responded to Unison's survey showing that three quarters of Further Education Colleges are planning redundancies with a call for trade union unity. "It is ...

The Unison General Secretary tells the TUC conference in London that Unison will ballot members on strikes over public sector pensions.