Workers' Liberty

UNISON's Labour Link forum - the national conference of the section of UNISON affiliated to the Labour Party - meets in Manchester on July 6th and 7th 2007, only a few weeks after the Labour Link committee nominated Gordon Brown for Party leader despite him refusing to speak to the union about public sector pay.

Supporters of Solidarity in the health service group of UNISON have produced this leaflet to promote four candidates in the current round of elections to the National Executive Committee: Kate Ahrens, Alison Brown, Paul Harper and Len Hockey are standing for the four health seats on the NEC.

Pensions, Pay and Privatisation

Why healthworkers should reject the NHS Pension proposals

With accusations still flying around that it was overly generous pay deals that led to the current financial crisis in the NHS it might seem a little selfish for staff to be worrying about their pensions when the future of the NHS itself now seems to be at stake.

A leaflet produced by AWL healthworkers for the NHS Together / TUC lobby of parliament on November 1st, 2006.

In a magnificent show of defiance this week, hundreds of NHS workers in the supply service NHS Logistics will take the first national strike action in the NHS for 18 years. The one-day strike starting at 10pm tonight will mark an end to the 'phony war' between the unions and the Government over NHS privatisation, and could spark a national fightback against the selling off of the NHS to the private sector.

The first-ever issue of an activists' bulletin for UNISON members produced by AWL UNISON members is now available. Covering the latest developments in the local government pension scheme campaign, and

AWL members in Unison call on Unison members to vote down the "Agenda for Change" pay package.

Longer hours, pay freezes and no solution on unsocial or on-call
Reject Agenda for Change!
On a very close vote, UNISON's special health conference decided to recommend that we vote yes to Agenda for Change (AfC). But that is only half the story. The conference was denied a card vote, which would have shown how evenly split the union is over the proposals. And Amicus, the other major union also balloting this month, has not made a recommendation either way.

The Health Service Group Executive of the public-service workers' union Unison voted on 8 September to recommend "Yes" to Agenda for Change.

AWL members published a daily bulletin at the 2003 conference of Unison, the giant public-services union which is Britain's largest. Download the bulletins here. (Sorry, for technical reasons they're not in the tidiest format we could wish for: some headings are missing, and the pdfs have some extra blank pages. But we hope this gives readers an idea of the issues at this important conference, and what the AWL did).
Sunday 15 June, local government conference
Monday 16 June, local government conference
Tuesday 17 June, general conference
Wednesday 18 June, general conference
Thursday 19 June, general conference
Friday 20 June, general conference