The first school featured in our new column is Wallace Fields Infant School in Ewell, Surrey
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The council’s Labour team pledge to sign UNISON’s Ethical and residential care charters on May 7th Announcement made in Labour’s manifesto pledges for upcoming election Council will be first in country to sign up to Residential Care Charter Southampton City Council will join local authorities nationwide in signing up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter, […]
There are a number of events and exhibitions being run by external organisations to celebrate Women’s History Month in 2018. Here’s a selection which you may be interested in with links to find out more. Information about the various talks and guided tours around Westminster throughout the year to celebrate 100 Years of the Vote […]
Thoughts on ‘The Winged Wheel Grave of Llandudno’ by Roger N. Bloor
At University of Southampton, campus trade unions rallied with sympathetic students to protest attacks on staff pension schemes. Although only members of USS scheme are currently on strike as part of UCU’s national industrial action, at this university all staff pensions are under threat and in various stages of consultation. This is why members of […]
A fantastic campaign by members of UNISON’s Surrey County branch has seen staff receive the pay rise they were entitled to. UNISON Members in the Adult Social Care workforce in Surrey County Council don’t seem to hear much positive news about their jobs these days, but February 2018 brought some very good news indeed, and a […]
As the largest public sector trade union with nearly half a million members working in health care, UNISON is a natural home for nursing and other AHP students. That’s why organisers attend student inductions at universities across the country like the University of Southampton – to talk to the future of the health service and […]
The Reigate and Banstead branch organised a free screening of the film Suffragette to celebrate the centenary
COHSE nursing students taking action in 1948 On the 6th February 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave women the vote for the first time. It is the case that not all women benefited from this legislation as the vote for women would continue to have restrictions until 1928 when women would achieve universal […]