09 December, 2011 // Category: Labour movement
Tim Lezard is a former president of the National Union of Journalists and co-founder of UnionNews. He spoke to Kate Belgrave and Ed Lewis about the strikes of November 30 and where the labour movement should go from here. How successful was the strike on November 30, both in terms of the...
23 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare
Two events of note take place at Unison’s annual conferences in my experience: 1) general secretary Dave Prentis makes a gripping “fight them on the beaches” speech which is followed by absolutely no action whatsoever and 2) Unison heavies expel (inevitably on fatuous grounds) at least one...
22 February, 2011 // Category: Disability, Employment & Welfare, Politics
For three months, I’ve been travelling around the country and talking to council service users who will be affected by the government’s public sector cuts. NLP published a first report from this trip a month ago. In this second report, I talk to service users as councils agree which services...
17 January, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Politics
For about six weeks, I’ve been travelling around the UK, talking to people who use council services and are being affected by the coalition government’s vicious cuts programme. I’ve been focusing on service users outside of London (I usually report on London) and on councils that aren’t always...
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