Edinburgh Napier University has moved forward with up to 70 redundancies relating to academic and academic related staff, which the Educational Institute of Scotland believe will have an adverse impact on the academic quality and coverage which may have a negative impact on the quality of education students would receive. The Staff cuts would also place additional burdens on an already stretched workforce at Edinburgh Napier University.   The EIS University Lecturers Association condemns the failure of the university to provide a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies. Management at ENU have refused to take this critical step, instead continuing with plans that place dedicated, long serving and hard-working staff at risk. These job cuts are short-sighted and will only increase the workload on remaining staff, leading to a decline in course provision and a diminished student experience. The EIS reiterates its call for the university to halt their cuts agenda and prioritise the well-being of their staff and students using the financial reserves that both universities have stashed away. We are also aware that the university are not, according to their published finances, in financial crisis. They have in fact got a very healthy reserve. We also do not believe that the process has been transparent, fair, or proper.

The Welsh and UK governments need to protect Welsh Industry, and: • Invest in our industries and cut electricity prices so we can compete with clean, modern technology • Stop trade undercutting our industries, whether Trump’s ungodly tariffs or cheap imports • Make sure our home-grown industries supply UK infrastructure and procurement • Listen to us! Industries are changing and workers know best how to handle change This is more urgent than ever because there is a big new threat to Welsh industrial jobs:  Nigel Farage and his billionaire buddies. Reform's policies would take a wrecking ball to Welsh industry. Reform is the party of slash and burn economics. Nigel Farage wants to bring Thatcherism on steroids to Wales. He’s promised to slash UK public investment by £225 billion – investment that our industries desperately need. Why are jobs at risk in my factory? Because of Farage’s buddy Trump and his tariffs. Farage doesn't speak for us – he’s fighting for his mate Trump, for hedge funds and speculators who profit from insecurity. Reform want to deregulate, invite in the billionaires and kick out trade unions. Farage would love to kill off workers’ rights. What needs to happen now? I’m proud of Wales. I’m proud of our industries.  It’s time for us to take our future into our own hands. Let’s stop site closures and futureproof our workplaces.  Let’s protect Welsh industry and secure decent jobs for the next generation. To do that, we need to push Westminster and the Senedd to deliver on investment, trade, procurement and worker voice. We need all parties to commit to Save Welsh Industry. And we need to highlight the massive threat posed by the current policies of Reform & the Conservatives. If you work in Welsh industry and want to secure our jobs for the future: join the fight to Save Welsh Industry and sign this petition. -- Pam mae hyn yn bwysig nawr? Mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU ddiogelu diwydiant Cymru drwy wneud y canlynol: • Buddsoddi yn ein diwydiannau a gostwng prisiau trydan er mwyn i ni allu cystadlu drwy ddefnyddio technoleg glân a modern. • Atal cwmnïau tramor rhag ceisio cwtogi prisiau a thanseilio ein diwydiannau, boed hynny drwy dariffau cythreulig Trump neu fewnforio cynnyrch rhad. • Sicrhau bod ein diwydiannau cynhenid yn cyflenwi gofynion seilwaith a chaffael yn y DU. • Gwrando arnom ni! Mae diwydiannau'n newid a gweithwyr sy’n gwybod orau sut i ddelio â newid Mae angen gwneud hyn ar fyrder oherwydd bod bygythiad mawr newydd ar y gorwel i swyddi diwydiannol yng Nghymru, a’i enw yw Nigel Farage. Mae Farage yn grediniol y gall ennill etholiad y Senedd ym mis Mai. Bydd ef a'i gyfeillion cyfoethog yn dinistrio diwydiant Cymru. Mae Reform yn blaid sy’n arddel economeg chwalu a chwerthin. Mae Nigel Farage eisiau cyflwyno Thatcheriaeth ar steroids i Gymru. Mae wedi addo tocio buddsoddiad cyhoeddus i’r bôn - ond mae hwn yn fuddsoddiad sydd wir ei angen ar ein diwydiannau.  Pam ma swyddi mewn perygl yn fy ffatri? Oherwydd un o gyfeillion pennaf Farage, sef Trump a'i dariffau. Dydy Farage ddim yn siarad drosom ni - ei flaenoriaethau ef yw ei ffrind mawr Trump, y cronfeydd buddsoddi arian, a hapfasnachwyr sy'n elwa o ansicrwydd. Bydd Reform yn dadreoleiddio, yn agor y drws i’r biliwnyddion, ac yn cael gwared ar undebau llafur. Os bydd Farage yn dod i rym, gallwch ddweud ffarwel wrth hawliau gweithwyr. Beth sydd angen digwydd nawr? Dw i'n falch o Gymru. Dwi’n falch o’n diwydiannau.  Mae'n bryd i ni gymryd ein dyfodol i’n dwylo ein hunain. Gadewch i ni stopio safleoedd rhag cau a diogelu ein gweithleoedd at y dyfodol.  Gadewch i ni ddiogelu diwydiant Cymru a sicrhau swyddi teilwng i'r genhedlaeth nesaf. I wneud hynny, mae angen inni atal Reform rhag dod i rym yng Nghymru. Ac mae angen i ni bwyso ar San Steffan a'r Senedd i gyflawni - o ran buddsoddi, masnach, caffael a llais y gweithiwr. Os ydych chi'n gweithio yn niwydiant Cymru ac eisiau sicrhau ein swyddi ar gyfer y dyfodol: ymunwch â’r frwydr i Achub Diwydiant Cymru a llofnodi'r ddeiseb hon.

Dumfries and Galloway is consulting the public on a range of proposals. In the past 16 years, the Council has cut £13 million from its budget and is now seeking to cut a further £35 million in the next three years. Most of these cuts are aimed at the Education Department. Proposals include consultation on the closure of 58 nursery, primary and secondary schools, axing the instrumental music service, and cuts to essential education workers. Years of under-resourcing have already created workload, pupil equity, violence and aggression issues that are unsustainable in schools. Over 40% of learners now have some form of additional support need. The introduction of the presumption of mainstreaming and the failure to appropriately resource this in schools has led to an increase in violence and aggression against teachers and between pupils. If realised, the recent budget cuts would have ramifications for the quality of education in Dumfries and Galloway and will hit some of the poorest children, the hardest. We are seriously concerned about the potential for the widening of the poverty-related attainment gap in Dumfries and Galloway.

Britain’s buses are old, inaccessible and unsafe. Except in London. Why? London buses have two or three sets of doors to make getting on and off really quick, safe, and accessible for everyone. If you’re a disabled user or parent with a buggy, getting on the bus, and finding space to sit, can often be impossible.  We believe buses can be made more accessible with these changes: • two sets of doors for boarding/alighting • Separate dedicated places for wheelchair users and parents with buggies • Eye level displays for wheelchair users and bell buttons within easy access • Seats at bus stops to provide a rest space for passengers who struggle to stand • Automatic boarding ramps and back up manual ramps if not working • Reinstating bus conductors • A permanent board of representative passengers and user groups to co-design all aspects of bus design and the bus reform process with the Mayor London buses aren’t this bad, and neither are buses across the rest of the world. Why are we stuck with such poor quality buses? If London can do it, it’s time we got the first class buses we deserve.

EIS members at Lenzie Academy have identified serious health and safety concerns in the school, presenting a risk to pupils and staff.  These include: • Major roof leaks and water ingress • Water near electrics • Asbestos-related risks • Mould and damp • Heating failures (rooms too cold / too hot) • Broken fire doors • A non-working secure entry system • Damaged flooring causing trip hazards • General disrepair A new school is planned — but not until at least 2029. Pupils need a safe building now. What teaching staff want • Make the building safe • Fix urgent risks quickly • Share clear timelines • Keep staff and pupils protected EIS members at Lenzie Academy are in dispute with East Dunbartonshire Council over their employer's failure to meaningfully consult with union representatives regarding serious health and safety concerns. In a recent consultative ballot, EIS members at Lenzie Academy voted 95% Yes to taking industrial action in pursuit of improved safety.

This is about whether people live or die when the worst happens. These plans would slash Oxfordshire’s guaranteed night-time fire cover from seven to five fire engines, close local stations, remove a specialist rescue vehicle and force firefighters onto unsafe 12-hour shifts. That means slower response times, weaker back-up – and more lives, homes and businesses lost.   The cuts hit the people who most need protecting: children, older people, disabled people, low-income families in flats and HMOs, and rural towns and villages already a long way from help. Night-time fires, road traffic collisions and floods are exactly when you need more cover, not less – but this plan strips it away and hides the damage behind county-wide averages.    If we don’t stop this, Oxfordshire will be left with a brittle, hollowed-out fire and rescue service: exhausted crews on overlong shifts, families in Kidlington losing their homes, retained stations closed instead of supported, and experienced firefighters leaving for good. Once stations, fire engines and skills are gone, they are incredibly hard and expensive to get back.

This November, Rachel Reeves has the chance to act in the Budget. Our factories and plants are struggling with the highest industrial electricity bills in Europe. Why are our bills so high? • Wholesale privatisation of our energy system under the Tories means millions are extracted in profit each year. • Other European countries have safeguards to shield their critical manufacturing sectors from soaring prices. • The UK's electricity prices are currently set by the price of gas – a fuel that Putin can set the price of. When Putin invaded Ukraine and drove up gas prices, our electricity prices followed. • Our industries were starved of investment and upgrades under the Tories, while bosses and investors extracted profits and dividends.  We’re not against climate action. It’s not even climate action that’s the problem!  But British industry can’t compete with imports – and workers carry the costs. That has to change. What needs to happen now We need bolder, faster action from Rachel Reeves and the Treasury. The government recognised the problem and took first steps back in June as part of the Industrial Strategy and committed money to support industrial electricity prices.  But this mostly won’t kick in until 2027.  Our industry needs lower bills now. The support should be funded through general taxation. We need to delink our wholesale electricity prices from gas, so they’re not set by Putin or multinational oil & gas companies. And we need investment to upgrade and futureproof our industries. If you work in industry — cars, steel, ceramics, logistics, construction, energy, or other manufacturing — and want to see long-term investment that protects our jobs, powers clean growth, and secures British industry for the future: sign this petition. We’re industrial workers. We build, power, and make Britain.  We deserve a future — but we won’t get there without action now.

As the screen sector in Ireland continues to grow in size, talent, and global recognition, it is more vital than ever that we uphold the standards, protections, and rights that underpin fair and sustainable working conditions for performers. One key pillar of that protection is the use of properly registered union agreements, specifically the PACT/Equity agreement in Film and TV. We wish to remind the industry that: • For productions based in Northern Ireland, PACT/Equity is the appropriate agreement under which professional performers should be engaged. • For productions in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Equity recognises the PACT/Equity agreement as its preferred agreement for co-productions. We have witnessed an increasing trend of productions marketing themselves as “PACT/Equity equivalent”, or claiming to be “in line with Equity rates”, without providing the appropriate contracts. This is not the same as operating under an actual registered collective agreement — and the distinction matters. In NI, without proper appropriate registration, there is no legal mechanism to ensure that productions honour Equity agreed-upon rates or conditions, and no enforceability if those promises are broken. These productions also lack the financial safety net that a registered agreement provides, such as an escrow deposit to protect wages if funding collapses.  Even if a NI production (or co-pro in ROI) claims to pay Equity “equivalent,” it often omits crucial terms meaning the total compensation frequently falls below union standards, often excluding ongoing payments like royalties or profit shares.  These may contain exploitative clauses around AI use, usage rights, or future exploitation — without proper remuneration or consent. Such contracts can create confusion among performers and agents, who may mistakenly believe they are protected under Equity terms.  Ultimately, accepting or promoting these “equivalent” agreements undermines the union’s ability to secure fair, enforceable collective terms and weakens the long-term health of our industry.

Treatment of striking NHS staff This helps to explain the treatment of NHS workers on strike in Gloucestershire in recent months.  A small but mighty group of workers have been on strike since March, fighting for fair pay. Phlebotomists, specialists in collecting blood samples, are currently paid at the lowest band in the NHS: just 30p over minimum wage. The all-female group are asking for a correction to their pay band to help them weather the cost of living crisis. The phlebotomists have now hit the highest number of days of any NHS strike in history. After 200 days on strike, Kevin McNamara is still refusing to resolve this fairly and pay the phlebotomists what they deserve. Why have over £100,000 of NHS funds been wasted on defending bullying instead of paying frontline staff fairly?

Without a commitment to backpay, we will be forced to take action. We do not take strike action lightly. But after years of being ignored, we have been left with no choice.

We've seen across the region what happens when these services are outsourced. • Unions not Recognised • NJC Pay Scrapped • Workers left behind Sign our petition to demand the council... • Keeps remaining services in house • Looks at bringing already outsourced services back under council control. We are proud to serve Middlesbrough, but we are not for sale!

PCS members in MyCSP have been on strike for six weeks; and have just agreed to extend their strike for a further six weeks. This is not a strike for more money; they just want their union recognised by MyCSP, and to be able to represent them at the transfer meetings. Nobody wants to take strike action, but MyCSP is unwilling to get around the table and resolve this dispute. In the meantime, huge backlogs of work and unacceptable call waiting times are having a detrimental impact on scheme members who are facing severe delays in receiving their pensions forecasts, their lump sums and statements; as well as pension queries not getting dealt in a reasonable time. Please show your support for the hard-working staff by writing to Duncan Watson, Chief Executive Officer of MYCSP.