An annual roundup of activity from CSP representatives, and our employment relations & trade union staff. 17 December 2020 - 9:21AM Share
1) Organising
CSP efforts at empowering members to protect and advance working conditions were given a boost in September, when two new full-time organisers joined the workplace organising team. During the Covid19 pandemic, our organisers worked alongside members to overcome barriers to the restart of physio services, and have produced resources to help members challenge employers about planned losses of physiotherapy space.
Our organisers have already sounded out members’ views on NHS pay to inform our submission to the Pay Review Body - due in 2021. They did so by running 12 focus groups, with over 100 members, throughout the UK. Our evidence will also draw on our largest ever pay survey, where over 6000 members told us their views about pay and work within the NHS.
SIMON WALTERS: How Busy Lizzie has turned from party joke to darling of 58 trade deals By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail 22:04 17 Dec 2020, updated 01:15 18 Dec 2020
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Move over Dishi Rishi , the Tory faithful have a new pin-up – Busy Lizzie .
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has achieved the seemingly impossible: a few weeks ago she overtook Chancellor Rishi Sunak in a Cabinet popularity poll conducted by the influential ConservativeHome website.
It marks an astonishing turnaround in her political fortunes.
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Much mocked for a cringe-making 2014 Tory party conference speech about cheese imports – so bad that the clip went viral on social media – she was humiliatingly demoted from the position of Lord Chancellor by Theresa May in 2017 for failing to defend judges after a controversial Brexit ruling.
2020
Things are pretty bleak. The Trump administration is petering out in the most predictable way, screaming about a fictional election conspiracy and continuing to ignore a deadly pandemic. The United States is basically averaging a 9/11 every day at this point. I’m old enough to remember when people made a big deal about how they’d “never forget” the magnitude of that tragedy. Less than 20 years later, here we are. At the time I type this, there’s still no new stimulus deal. Almost 8 million people have fallen into poverty since June, the largest such increase in the history of the country.
Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Cori Bush gives her victory speech at her campaign office on August 4, 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri. Bush, an activist backed by the progressive group Justice Democrats, defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) in Tuesday’s primary election to become the first black woman elected to represent the state of Missouri in congress. (Photo: Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)
Things are pretty bleak. The Trump administration is petering out in the most predictable way, screaming about a fictional election conspiracy and continuing to ignore a deadly pandemic. The United States is basically averaging a 9/11 every day at this point. I’m old enough to remember when people made a big deal about how they’d “never forget” the magnitude of that tragedy. Less than 20 years later, here we are. At the time I type this, there’s still no new stimulus deal. Almost 8 million people have fallen into poverty since June, the largest
Greencore reports coronavirus cases at Nottinghamshire site Convenience food manufacturer Greencore has confirmed an outbreak of COVID-19 at its North Nottinghamshire site.
A number of employees at the producer’s Manton Wood factory have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and are now self-isolating.
That follows a reported outbreak of COVID-19 at Greencore’s Northampton manufacturing site in August, after 292 people tested positive for the virus through National Health Service and private testing programmes.
A spokesman for the business said: “
Our thoughts are with all those affected, who are currently recovering at home, and we will continue to monitor their welfare as the situation develops.”