Category: General
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Police enquiry into property deals in Liverpool and building projects with cost over runs continue. But it’s not by any means a quick investigation. The mayor of Liverpool – and others – were arrested in 2020. By June 2025, nearly FIVE YEARS later, the Liverpool Echo reported what they called a “major step in the…
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This post from NHS blogger Roy Lilley explains the scandalous plan from the Royal United Hospitals Trust at Bath. The Trust are planning to force all their bank workers into ‘Pulse’ which will save them money on the employers NHS Pension contributions. Of course, under NHS terms and conditions all work over 37.5 hours should…
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Unite Branch Secretary and East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) Staff Side Chair Mark Dunne has been given notice of redundancy. Mark has been given notice that his contract will end on Tuesday 26 May.We believe this should not have been issued as no meaningful discussion has taken place regarding both roles or the impact…
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This was my first EC, and the first of the newly elected EC. It only lasted 2 hours and the agenda was restricted to 1) to hear the report of the Returning Officer; 2) to elect the EC Chair; to ratfy the EF standing orders; to elect two Vice Chairs; to agree a new process…
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The recent elections to the Executive of the Unite union, one of the Labour Party’s largest affiliates, returned a decisive majority for candidates aligned with General Secretary Sharon Graham. Sharon Graham: friendly, approachable and actually replies to emails! Her ‘Back to the Workplace’ candidates now hold 40 out of the Executive’s 61 seats, with 18…
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Partly to my surprise I have now been elected to the Unite EC! Thank you to Unite members ray for the interview, Jamie fror getting my election address down to 299 words, Kit for help with graphics, and Rob for the photo. And all the branches who nominated me. Once there at the EC I…
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US firm Palantir already has a £300 million contract to connect NHS data. They have said themselves that they are “buying our way in” to the NHS, and recent revelations in the BMJ shed a little bit more light on what exactly that involves. Much weight has been placed by Starmer’s ministers on a pilot…
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The NHS signed on with US firm Palantir to provide its ‘Federated Data Platform’ in November 2023 at a cost of £330 million. Although until recently Palantir operated at a loss, it is rapidly becoming profitable thanks to contracts from the US government, including ICE, and the US military. Its software was been a key…
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This is the much-vaunted Fair Work Agency, or what survives of it after Starmer’s repated wattering down of what was promised to the unions. Well done Sharon for laying it on the line. The Fair work Agency was supposed to enforce worker’s rights and give a meaningful inspection regime for low pay, bogus self employment,…
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