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Support the strikers 2 Nov 2010 | 04:25 am
We are gearing up for strikes at the BBC - I've been doing reps meetings and drafting strike leaflets and bulletins most of today. Here's some of the appeal that's gone out to NUJ branches Support N...
Red Ed? 27 Oct 2010 | 08:37 pm
Not content with calling the BBC workers threatened strike "irresponsible", Ed Milliband is now having a go at the firefighters threatened strike action on 5 November. Instead of attacking the FBU ma...
Hold on tight this could get bumpy... 20 Oct 2010 | 07:47 pm
So the big day is here - George Osborne and his fellow millionaires in government will tell us we've all been spending too much and begin the great welfare slash and burn programme they've been itchin...
A brief respite from the BBC 12 Oct 2010 | 07:45 am
Back from Brussels where I was at a meeting of the EFJ's Labour Rights Expert Group where we discussed union organising at Sky, lobbying in Europe over labour laws and a mapping project for the Europe...
Mark Byford to go...? 12 Oct 2010 | 07:41 am
Rumours abound tonight that BBc Deputy Director General Mark Byford is to go. Mark is a friendly and likeable man but his alleged £400,000 p.a. pension, his decision to spend £5000 going to South Afri...
More massive votes against BBC pension proposals 23 Sep 2010 | 12:27 am
Done three BBC pensions meetings with members at Television Centre and Millbank in the past three days - and there is a continuing overwhelming rejection of the BBC's pensions latest proposals. Not a ...
Manchester (United)! 17 Sep 2010 | 03:19 am
Back from the TUC Conference in Manchester tired but inspired - and it's not often you can say that. The inspired by TUC Conference bit, not the tired bit. With the shackles of the "we can't do anyth...
If it's war, we didn't start it... 17 Sep 2010 | 03:02 am
There I was, 6.30am, heading to the BBC studios in Manchester to do an interview when i popped in to a newsagent to grab some juice. BBC UNIONS' WAR ON TORIES screamed the front page of the Daily Mail...
Lucky 13? 11 Sep 2010 | 04:55 am
The blog has risen one place in this year's Tigmoo guide to the top union blogs - it now stands at number 13. Note to self - must do better. It's been the first day in weeks I've not had to spend mos...
Shhhh..it's confidential 9 Sep 2010 | 04:53 am
Negotiations, emergency reps meetings, more negotiations - the BBC pensions dispute has become all-consuming but since everything is confidential it makes for boring blogging! In the minutes between ...
