STUC 2016: We reported on UNISON speakers on the main issues every day at the 119th STUC Congress in Dundee from 18 – 20 April 2016. Reports appeared in Scotland inUNISON’s May issue. For an overview of the whole Congress go to the STUC website
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Use Scottish Government powers to protect the low paid
#STUC16 Delegates to Congress slammed cuts to tax credits and pledged to continue the campaign to fight these cuts and ...
TUC: Campaign together to fight for our people
#STUC16 TUC president Liz Snape called for the STUC and TUC to continue to work together 'to protect our future ...
School mainstreaming needs resources
#STUC16 Cuts in specialist and support services means ‘mainstreaming’ the schooling of children with particular needs has become the ‘do-nothing’ ...
Cuts to Further Education must be reversed
#STUC16 The STUC will campaign for the new Scottish Government to provide colleges with sufficient funding to return to meeting ...
Let’s give disabled young people the chance they deserve
#STUC16 Disabled young people are massively under-represented in apprenticeships and Congress delegates backed a wide-ranging campaign to address the difficulties ...
GIRFEC must not become a tick box exercise – our children deserve better
#STUC16 The STUC condemned cuts to education which so often follow on from council cuts, especially attacks on support staff ...
Cuts to emergency services put staff and communities at risk
#STUC16 The STUC will press the Scottish Government to adequately fund the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and to properly ...
No more excuses – time to address Scotland’s housing crisis.
#STUC16 The STUC will press the incoming Scottish Government to back Shelter Scotland’s campaign for a radical programme to build ...
Public private finance – secret and eye wateringly expensive
#STUC16 The STUC will call for an independent enquiry into PFI/PPP funding models for public sector building work, as well ...
STUC health and safety award for UNISON’s Scott Donohoe
#STUC16 Scott Donohoe, UNISON Scotland health and safety chair, has been presented with this year’s STUC Frank Maguire Award for Health and Safety ...
Young workers worth ‘better than zero’
#STUC16 Young members were joined by other STUC delegates and TUC president Liz Snape in demonstrating for ‘Better than Zero’ workers' ...
We need politicians to be bold in opposing austerity
#STUC16 The STUC has backed a UNISON and GMB 10 point plan for decent public services which are key to ...
