Author: Ivan Bonsell

Our campus trade unions have a strong and proud history of leading the fight against oppression in all forms. UCU and Unison are appalled at the current rise of anti-trans rhetoric, rulings and behaviour that has made life insecure and unsafe for our trans and non-binary comrades. Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual […]

UNSION’s General Secretary Election is live. All members who joined before the end of July will get a vote and you have until 25 November to make yours count, by returning your ballot paper in the post.As you can see from the candidates’ statements, our branch nominated Andrea Egan.    We think she is the […]

It is, of course, of major concern that far-right groups were able to persuade so many people to demonstrate in London last Saturday. Many of our members will be frightened about the threat of violence and intolerance that the movement represents, particularly those with Black and Asian heritage, or LBGT+ people. Whilst this was the […]

Trade union activists have been warning for many years that the system of funding higher education is unsustainable and subject to major problems if one or more of the multiple funding streams dries up. Had the £9,000 tuition fee, astronomical when first introduced, been pegged to some level of inflation, we’d be in a very […]

UNISON National Executive Council is made up of 68 people from across the union. It runs the union in between conferences and it’s important that members are democratically elected every two years by as many members as possible, so that the NEC has the widest democratic mandate to take the union in the direction members […]

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