Today it was the turn of new lecturers’ union, UCU, to announce their ballot for their first General Secretary, and this one was a bit closer run than yesterday’s T&G/Amicus merger vote. Sally Hunt, the General Secretary of AUT won with 52% of the vote under a new Single Transferable Vote system, which saw the …

At the merger announcement today, where T&G and Amicus revealed a very high in-favour vote (from a pretty high turnout) in both unions for the formation of a new super-union. Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley had a strong message about how the merger made industrial, financial and political sense. Derek Simpson said this had made …

Have you had a go at LabourSpace yet? It’s a sort of Big Brother for NGO campaigns. Every month there’s a new theme, and relevant lobby groups add their favourite campaigns. Users to the site vote on the campaigns, and the winner gets to have tea with Tony and Hazel and bend their ears a …

Barrie Clement (right) trips the light fantastic at a union reception Yesterday’s Media Guardian carried a very interesting article by Peter Wilby, which gave a number of clues as to the way work and union issues are reported in the UK. It concerned the apparently rapidly approaching extinction of the last of the UK’s labour …