http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk Latest news from Scotland's public service union webmanager@unison-edinburgh.org.uk (webmanager) en-us (c) Copyright 2008-9 , UNISON Scotland RSS Feed Creator V.1 - Ebookadvertising.biz http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/julyaug/0307.htm UNISON members will take to the street in Falkirk today (Fri 3 July) to protest about job cuts which are being imposed at Forth Valley College. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2606.htm UNISON today welcomed the government’s decision not to proceed with the project started in 2006, following the Review of Nursing in the Community (RONIC), to develop a new post of ‘Community Health Nurse’ http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2506.htm UNISON and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) today published a joint manifesto containing ten demands to resolve key problems affecting social work in Scotland http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2406b.htm Stop Climate Chaos Scotland says the Scottish Parliament has passed the most ambitious climate change targets in the industrialised world http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2406.htm Voluntary sector care workers in Glasgow will demand an end to illegal poverty pay for sleepovers in a petition to be handed to the City Council http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2306.htm Coalition group Stop Climate Chaos Scotland hails government amendment and urges MSPs to fix remaining loopholes http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2206.htm UNISON Scotland is calling on the government to engage directly with unions and employers to implement the recommendations of the Finance Committee's Report on Public Sector Pay http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1706a.htm UNISON Scotland has rejected Scottish Government claims that its schools building announcement represents better value for money than previous PFI/PPP projects http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1706b.htm UNISON accuses council bosses of "covering up" true extent of social work vacancies across the country and the risk that poses http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1006.htm UNISON has called on SNP Finance Secretary John Swinney to face up to the challenge of pay discrimination http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/localgovt/pay2010/index.html Your answers will help shape the formal consultation we will undertake with members through their branches in the latter summer months. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/greenworkplace/index.html Stop Climate Chaos Scotland is organising a mass lobby of the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 24th June from 12 to 2.30pm. http://www.unison.org.uk/news/news_view.asp?did=5400 Prentis urges people to register "huge disappointment" at BNP electoral gains. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/0806.htm Action 4 Equality Scotland, closely connected with no-win, no-fee solicitor Stefan Cross, has been forced into publishing a full apology to UNISON member Mrs Jacqueline Quinn. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/june09/7.html Landmark research into the employment of Personal Assistants through Direct Payments is about to be launched through a series of seminars across Scotland staring 5 June in Edinburgh. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2805.htm Increasing the proportion of ‘civilian’ staff in Scotland’s police forces will mean officers can concentrate on key policing says a new report released by UNISON http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2605.htm Stop Climate Chaos Scotland say hopes that Scotland's Climate Change Bill would lead the world were put at risk in Parliament today by SNP and Labour http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2205a.htm UNISON Scottish Organiser Dave Watson is a co-signatory of this open letter from the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition to First MInister Alex Salmond http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/2205.htm Transparency of public contracts and accountability at all levels is vital to delivering justice for the world’s most vulnerable people - Alyson Pollock at the Edinburgh World Justice Festival http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1505.htm Members of UNISON, Shetland’s biggest union, overwhelmingly voted to accept Shetland Islands Council’s Single Status pay offer. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1405.htm Douglas Alexander MP, the International Development Secretary, will next week open Edinburgh’s fourth World Justice Festival, which is supported by UNISON Scotland. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1205.htm UNISON Scotland is launching a campaign to highlight the consequences for workers who have been drawn to so-called 'No Win No Fee' solicitors http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1105.htm UNISON has agreed with the general trend of the conclusions and recommendations of the Frizzell report on the Kerelaw residential school – particularly the criticisms of the council’s own earlier investigations http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/1005.htm The main union representing Scotland's public service staff today condemned comments by Glasgow City treasurer, Cllr Gordon Matheson on today's BBC Politics Show as 'either ill-informed, or malicious' http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/mayjune/0505.htm The Scottish Living Wage Campaign today urged employers in the public, private and voluntary sectors to put an end to poverty wages by raising the earnings of their lowest paid workers to the Scottish living wage level of £7.00 per hour http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/siu/may09/index.html All the latest news from Scotland with Pay Review Euro elections and STUC reports http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0427.htm UNISON making a major input into large number of ceremonies organised across Scotland to commemorate International Workers Memorial Day http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0422.htm UNISON calls on Euro election candidates to back campaign to overturn negative legal judgements http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0420a.htm “The richest one per cent now pocket more money than the entire workforces of the NHS, state education and local government put together. And they pay back nothing like their fair share of tax." Matt Smith, UNISON http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0416.htm Offenders sentenced to Community Service in Glasgow are still sitting at home after the City Council refused to involve ACAS in the fourteen-week long Community Service Supervisors dispute http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0404.htm UNISON - Scotland's largest public service union launches its manifesto for the forthcoming European parliamentary elections http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0304.htm The Tribunal has now agreed that it does what it set out to do deliver - equal pay. It is a fairer and more transparent pay system http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/2703.htm The social work inspection system is failing to address the chronic shortage of resources in child protection services, UNISON, the union representing the vast majority of Scotland's social services staff, will tell a Child Protection Conference in Edinburgh today http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/2603.htm UNISON today welcomed the decision of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to investigate classroom assistants' pay in Glasgow http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/2003.htm UNISON Scotland has written to all the European candidates from Scotland's main parties asking them to sign up to four World Water Day pledges. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/1903.htm UNISON’s Community Service Supervisors in Glasgow are to lobby the City Council tomorrow (Friday 20 March) to seek a resolution to their ten week long strike. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0316.htm Rally and lobby at Scottish Parliament to support petition against 'death by a thousand cuts' of community and voluntary sector jobs and services. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0308.htm Concordat has become a 'straitjacket', UNISON Scottish Secretary Matt Smith tells Scottish Labour Conference in Dundee. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0307.htm A demonstration against car parking charges in Scotland’s Health Service will take place on Saturday 7 March at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0306.htm The parking contractors that run the car parking at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary, are set to make around an extra £170,000 profit because of government actions to tackle the credit crunch, according to Scotland’s healthcare union, UNISON. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/marapr/0303.htm UNISON today urged the Scottish Government to allow councils to bid for housing grant on an equal basis with Registered Social Landlords to increase the amount of affordable housing in Scotland and create a more stable housing market. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/janfeb/2702a.htm UNISON members working for Enable, the charity that works with people with learning disabilities, are to be balloted on strike action. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/janfeb/2702.htm Information shows that those with the real gold-plated pensions are private sector directors. The very people who are leading the clamour to attack the pensions of low-paid, hard working public service staff. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/janfeb/2602.htm UNISON has slammed the Accounts Commission annual overview report on local government as piecemeal and inaccurate. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/janfeb/1802.htm Plans to close residential homes in Stirling could result in the loss of 50 frontline jobs, the council's UNISON branch has warned. http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/news/2009/janfeb/1102.htm A recession is the time to invest more money in local services, not cut them back, says Dave Watson.