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TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration, photo Socialist Party
2 May 2012
TUSC: the electoral alternative to the parties of the rich
Round-up across the country: All together in Liverpool to support TUSC mayoral stand: 300 people attended the Liverpool pre-election rally for mayoral candidate Tony Mulhearn and other Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates across Merseyside, writes Dave Walsh.
15 June 2011
Unison NEC elections - left retakes lost ground
The results of Unison's national executive council (NEC) elections give the left 17 seats. Socialist Party members in Unison fought these elections in an electoral alliance with the United Left...
John McInally, PCS, photo Paul Mattsson
7 October 2010
Trade unionists denounce Hutton's attacks on public sector workers' pensions
Former Labour minister Lord Hutton, on a comfortable MP's pension, has released an interim report on his investigation into public sector pensions.
- "Another attempt to make working people pay for the greed of the bankers and big business" - John McInally, Vice president, Public and Commercial Services union
30 June 2010
Unison general secretary election: Prentis vote falls despite Con-Dem attacks
As reported in last week's Socialist, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis was re-elected to his position in the recent ballot, but with fewer votes than when he last stood in 2005, a Unison member writes.
22 June 2010
Unison general secretary election - good result for Roger Bannister
Stop press:
The Unison general secretary election result brought a good result for Socialist Party member Roger Bannister:
Dave Prentis 145,351 (67.2%)
Roger Bannister 42,651 (19.7%)
Paul Holmes 28,114 (13%)
Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson
19 May 2010
Vote Roger Bannister in the Unison general secretary election
For a fighting union leadership! After the shenanigans of the election campaigns of the last few weeks, another election starts on 17 May - the election of Unison's general secretary, writes Roger Bannister, candidate for Unison general secretary.
12 May 2010
Ballot papers will be going out soon in the election for Unison general secretary. Nearly 1.4 million workers in local councils, the health service, police, fire service, voluntary sector, universities,...
5 May 2010
Fight the devastation of jobs and services: In the last days of the general election campaign the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) tried to provoke the 'big three' parties into breaking their silence and coming clean on the 'savage cuts' of £55 billion on average that they all intend to make. The IFS estimates that the cuts could be the worst since the Second World War.
10 March 2010
Fight the cuts, not union members
Dawn raids on Unison branch offices: Fifteen unelected Unison trade union officials raided the Unison offices in Bromley and Greenwich in south London and the Tenant Services Authority in central London in the early morning of Friday 5 March, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary.
Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson
3 March 2010
Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister
The outcome of a BBC survey shows that at least 25,000 council jobs are at risk. A spokesperson from the London School of Economics has declared that: "Nothing like this has happened for a generation"...
Roger Bannister at Unison conference
24 February 2010
Nominate Roger Bannister: Unison's leadership battle
Roger Bannister, who is seeking nominations to stand in the Unison general secretary election, commented on the latest round of job cuts announced by councils across the country...
17 February 2010
Nominate Roger Bannister: Council workers need a fighting union
ROGER BANNISTER is a member of the Unison union's national executive, and campaigning to stand for election as Unison general secretary. Roger says the union must fight the cuts in Birmingham, which are being repeated by councils, health authorities and the education sector nationwide...
Roger Bannister, photo by Paul Mattsson
10 February 2010
Fighting leadership needed in Unison - Nominate Roger Bannister for general secretary
Whoever wins the general election, members of Britain's largest public sector union Unison, like all other public service workers, are in for a hard time. All three capitalist parties have declared their intention to make the working class pay for the financial crisis through attacks on jobs, pay, pensions and public services.
1 April 2009
Sack the bankers not the workers!
Over 100 people thronged the streets of Wigan on 21 March. We were marching on a cold, grey Saturday afternoon against the looming cuts and privatisation facing those who work in and use council services...
17 June 2008
Unison conference: Angry delegates attack leaders
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Unison conference 2008 anti-witchhunt protest, photo Paul Mattsson |
14 September 2006
Opposition forces Trusts to retreat
Wiltshire: "PEOPLE POW-ER stalls closure plans" ran the headline in the Western Daily Press. They were announcing the news that West Wiltshire and Kennet & North Wiltshire PCTs were deferring decisions to close hospitals...
19 March 2005
Pensions attacks: United action can win
"THIS IS the first time in my memory that so many workers in different trade unions have been involved in strike action over the same issue...
19 March 2005
Good result for Roger Bannister
Results of UNISON General Secretary election declared
Q. What do you think your result in the general secretary election means?
Roger: I THINK it clearly shows the effect of Dave Prentis being the sitting candidate.
12 February 2005
UNISON general secretary election: Prentis attacks the opposition
Socialist Party member Roger Bannister is standing in the election for general secretary of UNISON...
5 February 2005
UNISON's NATIONAL industrial action committee has decided to conduct a strike ballot of local government members...
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