HCC is currently holding a consultation on the proposed closure of Orchard Close Respite Care Home on Hayling Island. Many service users and their families have been devastated by the proposal and are fighting hard to change the minds of HCC bosses who claim that closing the much loved respite care home could save them […]
It’s impossible to explore the future of industrial relations without first looking at how the world of work is evolving. Traditional models of full-time employment are being eroded by the growth of self-employment. Included in this is the rise of freelancing. Of the 4.8m self-employed people in the UK, 4.4m are ‘solo self-employed’ (employ no […]
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the England-wide bus pass for pensioners and to raise money for charity, Richard Worrall, seventy-three years, a councilor with Walsall Metropolitan Borough and committee member of the National Pensioners Convention has undertaken a sixteen-day bus trek around England. Heading from his home town, he travelled north towards the Scottish […]
This Budget Briefing was prepared by our friends at the National Pensioners Convention an organisation to which we (the retired members section) are affiliated and hold in high regard. We are grateful that they have given us permission to make it available to our membership. Chris O’Neill, Vice Chair Hampshire Retired Members Section Click here […]
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Like me, you may have recently received an email from Amelia Rout, who is Secretary of the Unison branch at Staffordshire University. The management at this university have proposed that the lowest graded members of staff (mainly women) are transferred out of the current Local Government Pension Scheme into a wholly owned subsidiary company. The […]
21st August 2018 Once again Mr. Roy Perry, Leader of Hampshire County Council, using a strangely loaded questionnaire, is scheming to get government support to introduce charging for pensioners’ bus passes and each individual journey travelled. Last year he made his first effort to convince government that the law be altered to allow his parsimonious […]
Magnificent banners held proudly high, represented groups from all over our nation: unions, political groups, campaigners, pensioner organisations and more, almost too much to absorb. We laughed and cheered as they continued to progress the High Street, bands providing a taste of New Orleans, Asia and northern brass. Later Jeremy Corbyn addressed the crowd with […]
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Thousands of trade union members, including two from Hampshire Unison Retired Members Group, marched through central London in the rain to protest against eight years of austerity caused by the primary school economics and greed of Wall Street and our own financial centre in London. Primarily the call of this mass demonstration was for the […]
