UNISON represents 10,000 staff at Derbyshire County Council (DCC) and the local branch have called a public demo in support of council services.  The demo is at: 1pm on Wednesday 8 September at 1pm...

UNISON members who pay into the union's Affiliated Political Fund will soon be receiving ballot papers for the Labour leadership election. UNISON's national Labour Link Committee has endorsed Ed...

Tory run Nottinghamshire County Council recently announced that they need to make £69m of cuts next year. Last year they said they needed to cut £33m but UNISON showed comprehensively that there was...

Last Friday the Chief Executive at Derby City announced the council are to cut 244 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs by 31 March 2011 as part of a 4 year plan to make cuts of £28m and reducing the...

Leicester City branch have been hard at it campaigning for public services. Since the start of the summer the branch supported the Academy Lobby in London with five branch reps attending. They...

Unnecessary and ideologically driven central government cuts to councils means that Leicester City Council are now planning to cut over 350 jobs in the next year. A report in the Leicester Mercury...

All public services will be hit by the unnecessary ConDem cuts. The Police Service will be particularly badly hit. There are 5 police forces in the East Midlands and all of them will be hit by cuts....

Aside from the ill informed nonsense about public sector pay and pensions, the right wing media have set up a false opposition between public sector workers and those in the private sector in an...

Do you want to find out more about the work of the National Women’s Committee? Are there any matters at work you are concerned about? For example: Sickness absence policies, in particular how it relates to women Maternity leave Time … Continue reading →

Today, UNISON started legal action against the Secretary of State for Health, challenging his refusal to consult the public on proposals in his White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS....

 Don’t Live in Fear – Report Hate Crime  Challenge North Staffs (CNS) is a new organisation which aims to promote the reporting of Hate Crime in the North Staffordshire area. We work with voluntary organisations such as North Staffs User … Continue reading →

During July 2010, members of the West Midlands Region received £171,285.19 in compensation for personal injuries.  Rather a quiet month for this branch though, which is most unusual. Nevertheless, it pays to be a Unison member!!

Another one of our favourite blogs is The (Other) Taxpayers' Alliance.  Many people will know of the Taxpayers Alliance, the attack dogs of the Tory party and the super rich. They claim to...

Despite objections from the public and the workforce Derby City PCT and Derbyshire PCT have both decided to give their Family Health Service Support Functions to the private firm called NHS Shared...

I was told today by someone on a well-known social media site that I shouldn’t get too upset by the announcement that a former Labour Cabinet Minister has agreed to work for the new Conservative – Liberal Democrat Government as a so called social mobility tsar. I was advised that the Labour Party...

The inflation figures are out and it remained above the Bank of England target, with the Consumer Price Index standing at 3.1%. Dinner ladies, nursery nurses, home care workers, refuse collector and...

There has been so much spin and distortion about the UK deficit that most people would be forgiven for thinking there is no alternative to public spending cuts.  We've put together a short...

The coalition government claimed that they would have a cull of Quangos, and started badly by creating a new one – The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). With the recent surprise resignation of...

The North Staffs TUC have organised a public meeting at the Hope Centre in Hanley on Wednseay 18th August 2010 at 7pm. Speakers will include representatives from local unions and campaign groups. Further details and a poster promoting the meeting is … Continue reading →

As I write this I am nearing the end of what has been a fantastic holiday in the amazing City of San Francisco. Its become something of a tradition that I write something that reflects back on the holiday. I can only remember missing one holiday when I have not written a piece. Its best not to say...