The Public Sector Needs a Pay Rise! Pay Seminar 2020
2019 in Review: Recruitment and Retention
We will fight back
This is my first blog as Regional Convenor of UNISON North West. I am extremely excited to begin this role leading the largest union in our dynamic and historic region, although I do wish that the circumstances were different...
General Election 2019: let's transform this country for good
The Liverpool Typists Strike 1981: a trailblazing equal pay campaign
Young workers: ending the scourge of low pay
Let's shut down the Tories for good
Fighting for our Future
The Great Pension Robbery
Last weekend, I was delighted to speak at The Great Pension Robbery, a rally organised by the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign.
The Government has treated 3.8m women with disdain, implementing significant changes to pensions with no thought for the impact they would have on women who were born in the 1950s. Without the unrelenting work of WASPI campaigners, this unfairness would simply have been swept under the carpet.
Songs of Solidarity
“They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn,
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn,
That the Union makes us strong.
Solidarity Forever.”
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