West Midlands Million Voices for Affordable Housing campaign
UNISON will publish a publication highlighting the major issues and challenges facing affordable housing provision in the Region and nationally.
This issue affects all UNISON members not just those who work in Housing. We are seeking to run the campaign in partnership with tenants’ organisations and other Housing interest and pressure groups.
The West Midlands campaign will centre on a series of meetings and recruitment events around the region, targeted at members, activists, tenant leaders and political opinion formers in the region’s housing sector.
Twelve houses on a chemical-plagued Wolverhampton estate have been declared contaminated – sparking an investigation for asbestos at hundreds of other homes.
Wednesday 28th April 2010 will be the next Workers' Memorial Day, we will hold a commemoration at 12.30pm at the Cenotaph in front of the Civic Centre and St Peters' church.
speakers: Warinder Juss (GMB) of Thompsons' Solictors,
The Palestinian people are experiencing their 42nd year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so that 'normal' life is impossible.
Thirty five years ago, the IRA murdered 21 in the Birmingham pub bombings. Six Irishmen were jailed for crimes they did not commit, and spent 16 years in jail before their convictions were quashed. But how was life on the outside?
Save Our Public Services - Tories & Liberals threaten massive cuts so that this year's council tax doesn't have to go up by a tenner. [Next council elections Thursday May 6th 2010].
Tories & Liberals have closed Underhill Older Peoples home despite the offer of free cash from an appauled benefactor to keep it open. The council shamed our city by evicting a 106 year old resident in the worst snow we'd had all winter. Transport to Day Centres was cancellled and no dustbins were emptied that day due to heavy snow yet our council evicted Wolverhampton's oldest citizen. The council's "reasons" for closure are untrue.
In the latest government figures for the first three quarters of 2009, arms sales to Israel from Britain were £3.44million.
In 2008 over £26million of British arms exports went to Israel.
In 2007 our government granted export licences for £10.5million of British arms exports to Israel.
Pat McFadden, Wolverhampton SE MP is Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs at BERR - the department that grants military export licences to Israel.
Local government unions outraged at pay freeze
Local government unions, UNISON, GMB and UNITE, representing 1.6 million workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have today been told that their members face a pay freeze in 2010/2011. The unions are calling on the local government employers to think again, saying that local government workers will struggle to afford basic essentials, with nearly 3% inflation rendering the pay freeze a real terms pay cut. The unions are calling for them to come to their senses and make a reasonable offer, saying that there is room in council budgets to give workers decent pay.
Written Ministerial Statements: Thursday 28 January 2010
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Yvette Cooper):
I am pleased to announce the publication of the Government's response to the consultation exercise proposing the official recognition of Workers Memorial Day.
The Government's response (Cm 7789) has been laid before Parliament and is available on the DWP website.
Over 300 trade unionists, political activists, campaigners and people of Whitmore Reans celebrated the 1st May, Workers' Day in Wolverhampton for the 15th year on Friday 1st May 2009. Speakers, entertainment, music, food, bouncy castle, face-painting and stalls at the Pegasus Function Room, Craddock Street.
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WB&D Trades Union Council organises teams of workers to work on bars at music festivals 
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