by admin | Jul 15, 2010 | nec, nuj
Hardly a day goes by without more fall-out from the government’s emergency budget announced last month. Announcements of cuts, some immediate and some to come, abound. No service seems safe and we will all be affected, which is why I have tabled the following...
by admin | May 23, 2010 | nec, nuj
Last Friday’s NEC meeting (14 May) was dominated by the action of Johnson Press in their use of the anti-union laws to stop our members taking industrial action, following a successful ballot. On arrival we were given two letters one from the group human resources...
by admin | Apr 21, 2010 | nec
Last week’s policy committee considered its usual wide range of issues. Progress on conference motions was reported, a written update on the work by our representative Pat Healey on the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) was received. The NPC was the driving force...
by admin | Mar 22, 2010 | nec, nuj
Rather a strange question to be asking, even on my second meeting, but it’s something I pondered on at the March meeting, when we were faced with a suggestion from NEC member Nick Serpell that the Council consider reducing the time of meetings to one day (except in...
by admin | Mar 11, 2010 | nec, nuj
My second NEC (4/5 March) was well attended, eventful and interesting. We made some useful decisions and some less so (well that’s true of most meetings in my experience). At the start, I asked the meeting to mark the death of Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | nec, nuj, unions
Last Thursday’s meeting of the policy committee (PC) was the first for the new NEC. The agenda was lengthy because the remit of the committee is very wide ranging – from parliamentary and TUC matters to international – the International Federation of...
