The People’s Assembly have organised a week of action, including a march and rally, which is taking place in Manchester during the Tory Party conference over 2nd – 5th October. On Sunday 3 October, you can join the #UnitedAgainstTheTories demo…
At a meeting of the North West Regional Local Government Service Group held on the 15th January 2015 it was agreed that the following motions be put forward to the Special Local Government Conference on pay. Manchester Branch will be…
Delegates had been looking forward to Friday morning as the guest speaker was North West MEP Theresa Griffin. Theresa is the former regional officer for our branch so well known to all the delegates. It was a great pleasure to…
Thursday morning, as is traditional, was reserved for international issues. This is also traditionally a morning of serious, intelligent debate and for some delegates to see a new side of the work UNISON does. We began with a solidarity photo…
On Wednesday morning we had a long and thorough debate on the NHS and speeches warning of the dangers posed by privatisation of the probation service. There was a discussion on a motion about attendance management submitted by The National…
A good first day of conference. New Branch Secretary Evelyn Doyle spoke on public service reform. A complex issue, but a serious one for our Branch. Manchester City Council is now working in partnership and sharing services with a wide…
Having pushed for industrial action for so long it felt good on Monday morning to be listening to debates on pay with a ballot taking place. There were a lot of rousing speeches as you might expect but also some…
It was a big morning for our branch with three delegates speaking. Nixon Tod, our convenor at Manchester College spoke on cuts to further education. The motion was written by our FE and young members committees, taking into account the…
The morning session of conference was given over to Motions on combating the Government’s austerity programme. Motion 10 “Bargaining Through Austerity” focussed on the effect of austerity on the terms and conditions of our members and committed us to continue…
Tuesday marked the first day of the 2013 UNISON National Delegate Conference. The first item on the agenda was simply entitled “Welcome to Liverpool”. It proved to be a rousing welcome from guest speaker Ricky Tomlinson. Ricky gave an impassioned…