Lancashire UNISON
By now, all members should have received ballot papers for the elections to UNISON’s National Local Government Service Group Executive. I’m guessing that this was probably not the most exciting [...]
Colleagues are now becoming angry at the attempt to minimise the mileage allowance to 45p a loss of 15p on what we now receive. I attended a meeting in Wyre [...]
Sorry I didn’t get chance to blog last week, but I was away training. It was the second week of the advanced reps course. We were looking at recruiting and [...]
With the break for Easter just around the corner I, like lots of others, are looking forward to some time off. It’s also the time when the new leave year [...]
Busy, busy, busy. Negotiating over Terms and conditions, representation and duty officer 2 1/2 days last week. This is normally the first point of contact with a union official when [...]
Now Ian Duncan Smith/David Cameron, don’t have to worry about getting the young unemployed to work for free, they can concentrate on the living wage! Blog 7 and their own [...]
Out with my mate Dicko last week – he had some coke and the bubbles went up his nose. I got an ice cube stuck in mine. The conversation [...]
The living wage campaign - fighting to get people a decent wage. This is not the minimum wage, but a fair wage. This is currently calculated at £8-30 in London and [...]
I attended a Seminar on the Government’s Cuts and Reforms at the TUC in London on Monday 23rd January 2012. There were several guest speakers who included Professor Paul Gregg [...]
BLOG – Living wage
I have blogged on the living wage before (see blog 7); this is an important campaign fighting for a living wage for all workers, rather than minimum wage. The Minimum [...]