I'm not sure if you're more or less optimistic than me there, but I reckon there's every chance of some of the current disputes running long enough that coordinated action with PCS becomes possible. Certainly if there's any possibility of the health unions taking action, I don't think that's likely to be any earlier than the PCS ballot. Let alone the chance of a Unison reballot in their non-currently-striking HE branches, as mentioned above.
For anyone who's interested, it's no longer there on the current version of the page, but the Unison HE disputes page as it was this summer had a list of all the places that were balloting, so you can see if his branch was on that.
They're not on that list, which tells me either the branch committee or regional office didn't think they had much chance of getting near the threshold. Either way, that's piss poor.
Well, on one hand that's crap but on the other I suppose it's more reassuring than if they tried to run a ballot without any of their members knowing about it? I think there are also a few branches who've opted out of national bargaining, but as I understand it those usually tend to be the strongest branches who can get better results for their members without going through the national structures, and it doesn't sound like that's the case here?
Sounds sadly familiar
www.organisenow.org.uk
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GET IN A QUEUE FOR BALLOTING. This idea that you can't have different sections of the union balloting at the same time...never mind co-ordinating action across unions, these useless fucks want to make it impossible for one union to co-ordinate with itself. And just to stress again, the SGE that's arguing for the reballots to start immediately is an elected body* that seems to be being overruled by unelected officials.
check that their comms officer hasn't somehow managed to design them with days that don't actually exist.
Any idea what platform they're using for it? I signed up to join their reps network then found out they wanted me to use fucking Slack for it, so I never bothered following up. A more locally-focused thing sounds like it might well be more useful though, especially if they don't make me use Slack.
morningstaronline.co.uk
Doesnt say how though.This is interesting. Not entirely sure if this is the right thread for it though. Maybe needs it's own thread:
Unite will now be getting involved in politics directly
CLAIRE PEDEN announces a new initiative from Britain's second largest trade union to extend and deepen the class struggle in and beyond the workplace — and deliver results for the working class where politicians have failed
