VOTE Steve JONES for UNISON NEC - West Midlands Male Seat

Another good candidate for UNISON members in our West Midlands region to consider voting for in the NEC Ballot - alongside Eleanor SMITH Female Seat, Carole SEWELL Female Seat and Mary LOCKE Reserved Seat.

Welfare spending: truth, lies and myths

This table shows yet again that contrary to the untruthful right wing media in this country the biggest single element of welfare spending in this country by far (46%) is spent on the state pension not the unemployed or sick.

This does not mean that all welfare spending is spent wisely and that we do need to keep a careful eye on all expenditure but we need to challenge the nonsense out there about who really benefits from our welfare state.

Hat tip Chart to Ravi Subramanian, UNISON West Midlands Regional Secretary who sourced the stats from this report.

Jayne Wilkinson for Tividale

I hope any UNISON Labour Link members living or working near Tividale, West Midlands will go out and support top trade union organiser Jayne Wilkinson in her fight to become a Labour Councillor for the ward.

At the moment there are two Labour and one BNP Councillors. Need I say anymore?

"Jayne has lived in the Rowley area all her life and is excited about bringing her experience as an organiser within her own community to Tividale.

Jayne works for Tesco in West Bromwich, where she is Chair and Shop Steward of the store’s USDAW Branch. She has successfully encouraged colleagues to participate in union decision making and has driven up the number of members by engaging with her colleagues.

It is through her USDAW activity that Jayne became involved with Labour. She said, “For me, Labour is the party of the many not the few. I’ve been inspired by the determination of the hard working people I meet through my union work and I know first hand the importance of collective action in order to deliver results that matter . As a mother, I know the issues facing working families, and I will work tirelessly to improve circumstances across the ward.”

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You deserve better - join a union

Well done To West Midlands UNISON for winning the TUC one minute video competition to promote Worksmart/Union finder. The video will be shown to delegates at conference next week.

Obama tells it as it is. Great stuff. Direct and to the point why we need strong unions and why people need to join.

Hat-tip thingy to James NEC Update