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Category Archives: Trade Unionism
LEAKED DOCUMENT: city council leadership – we’ve done over the vulnerable, now for the wage slaves
You have to laugh … Or you’d probably cry. The city council’s ridiculous “strategic leadership team“, having spent the last 18 months feather-bedding themselves with pay rises of 20% plus; spending £120k on their own offices and “break-out spaces” and … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Budget, Economy, Local government, Politics, Trade Unionism
Tagged Jan Ormondroyd, Strategic Management Team, Waybuloos
There are 4 comments
Dinosaur watch
That wacky bunch of no-hoper Stalinists, conspiracy nuts and embittered ex-Northcliffe hacks who make up the membership of the local branch of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) have come up with a recruitment plan. “BRISTOL NUJ can be at … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Bristol, Journalism, Media, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged NUJ
There are 34 comments
Wobblies news
Some heavyweight anti-authoritarian politics comes to Bristol and the south west as a trade union dedicated to the overthrow and destruction of the boss class opens up shop. The Bristol and South west branch of the Wobblies – or the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Bristol, Politics, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged IWW, Wobblies
There is 1 comment
Senior officer moment
UNISON have been asking some useful questions about senior officers’ fat cat six-figure salaries down at the Counts Louse. Possibly overlooked in the frenzy over Tesco at Ashton Gate and Steve Lansdown’s admission that his £60m stadium, as predicted, is … Continue reading
Phew!
What a relief for us all. Isn’t it lucky that Bristol City Council employed a new Chief Executive and gave them an inflation busting 30% pay rise just last year? It’s even luckier that this Chief Exec then spent the … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Local government, Politics, Trade Unionism
Tagged Jan Ormondroyd, Jon House
There are 4 comments
Bin men speak!
See also: Striking binmen take protest to council
Posted in Bristol, Economy, Environment, Local government, Politics, Privatisation, Recycling, Trade Unionism
Tagged SITA, Unite
There are 17 comments
Counting the cost of Brown's Britain (reprise)
40% – pay rise awarded to Bristol City Council’s new Chief Exec, Jan Ormondroyd, for the year 2008-09 – before she had even done any work for Bristol. Ormondroyd’s pay packet is in the region of £180k a year or … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Economy, Local government, Politics, Trade Unionism
Tagged Jan Ormondroyd, Refuse Collection, SITA
There are 7 comments
City Council budget balls: go figure
The ruling Labour group has unveiled what it calls a prudent budget for hard times … but Council leader Helen Holland says there will be no cuts in frontline services Bristol Evening Post, 9 December 2009 That makes things pretty … Continue reading
Spot the difference
I see Bristol City Council’s middle management union, UNISON is on strike for the next two days. If anyone notices any change whatsoever because this little lot aren’t at work do let me know …
Posted in Bristol, Local government, Politics, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged UNISON
There are 8 comments
Global day of action for Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi
Today is a global day of action for Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi, two Iranian trade unionists being held in prison by the Iranian theocracy on charges of “endangering national security”. This pair are unlikely to get the publicity afforded … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Middle East, Politics, The British Left, Trade Unionism
Tagged Mahmoud Salehi, Mansour Osanloo
There are 2 comments