These drastic cuts will fundamentally change the role of local government, the scale and range of services that it provides and its capacity to deliver services to […]
Therefore the removal of the ConDem government has to be a priority for LGBT members in the next year. The Labour Party remains the only viable […]
This conference believes that the Government’s decision to raise the Local Housing Allowance shared accommodation rate to 35 year olds was not subject to equality impact testing. It is well documented that women earn less than men and therefore find it harder to afford private sector rents. With the changes to eligibility for the 1 […]
11 hospitals have already lost maternity services since 2010. The closure of local maternity units will force women to travel miles to another hospital. In the West Midlands the […]
Despite a peace process currently taking place between the Colombian government and the guerilla organisation FARC, 15 per cent more trade unionists were killed in 2013 than in […]
News that the Weston General Hospital has today pulled back from the brink of privatisation has been greeted as a victory for common sense by UNISON
Dawn Downes, the branch secretary of George Eliot, told delegates that the government’s attempts to dismantle the NHS meant that "we are not just losing our heritage, we are […]
Conference is warned if the Tories win the next election, their theme tune will be “you ain’t seen nothing yet”
James Tattershall from Lancashire police observed that: "This government believes that it's morally correct to make profit from crime and from some of the most vulnerable […]
Today, the Government offered little hope to almost one million young people who are unemployed, little help to make work […]
Extra financial support from Government would crucially enable councils to employ more social workers to tackle dangerous case-load levels […]
Fracking could be thing of the past if homes were properly insulated
The NEC’s Jane Carolan told delegates that the government, as well as sections of the media, were living in a "parallel universe". Ms Carolan said: "They are […]
In a debate on the housing crisis and its particular impact on women yesterday afternoon, conference agreed a programme of campaigning to tackle the problems
For the national Black members' committee, Bev Miller cited measures that the government has introduced to 'manage migration', with the informal introduction of categorisation as 'bad […]
