Just wages – get your union to practice what they preach
Just Wage campaign calls on Unite members. In 2010, the UK’s biggest trades union UNITE will hold elections for the post of General Secretary – their most senior elected officer. Just Wage is asking the candidates in this election to commit to:
1. a just wage within their organisations and
2. support for a campaign for just wage ratios in the sectors where the union organises (eg. nonprofit, public and private)
The latest NCIA newsletter
Read about the Big Society Show, cuts, more cuts, opposition and how to be more like the French – and a must for your diary, details of the NCIA Assembly on 26th October for who’s doing what to stop the cuts.
Small can be beautiful
Here’s a new paper from NCIA member Adrian Barritt who highlights the fundamental choices that CVSs must make to respond to cuts and the Big Society Show. Adrian argues that joining up into bigger structures, which appears be the developing response, will undermine people’s ability to be locally rooted, self reliant, creative and flexible. The paper gives a whistlestop tour of philosophical and political ideas to argue that CVSs can stay independent and can work out other ways of coping. Let us know what you think of the issues raised in the paper. What choices are you facing in your organisation? What are you doing and can you share your approach with others in the NCIA network?
Social enterprise – for better or for worse
Listen to NCIA’s Andy Benson air his views on social enterprise in this BBC Radio Wales interview.
