Unison right wing plans pushback
The first face to face conference of the public services union Unison for three years meets in Brighton on 14-17 June. It is also the first since Unison’s first-ever election of a left National Executive Committee (NEC), the first since Covid hit, and the first since campaigns on 2021-2 pay went badly in Unison’s two biggest areas, local government and health. On 6 June the union, jointly with GMB and Unite, announced its pay claim for local government: the current rate of RPI inflation (presently 11.1%) or a minimum of £2,000. Downsides: the claim comes late, for a pay award that was due in...