Useful Links
Below you will find some sites that will be of use to all UNISON members. With over 100 links on this page there must be something for everyone with an interest in the labour movement!
The links are sorted into categories, then are in alphabetical order. Links have only been entered once, so if you cannot find a link under the category you think it ought to be under, it is worth checking another category. If you get carried away surfing the links here don't forget to come back soon!
UNISON national site: www.unison.org.uk
Massive site with loads of stuff useful to UNISON members, regularly
updated
UNISON Cymru Wales Regional Site:
www.unison.org.uk/cymruwales/
Lots of local stuff specific to Wales that you will not find on
the national site
UNISON Cardiff Local Government Branch:
www.cardiffunison.co.uk
From the Unison Office, County Hall, Atlantic Wharf
Other Welsh UNISON Branches? If you know of any websites for Welsh UNISON branches, please let us know
Zisize: www.zisize.org
Not strictly a UNISON link, but the website of the RCT UNISON branch
charity 2001 to 2003, winner of the UNISON Bob Cotton Award 2002
and loads of other connections with RCT UNISON. Based in South Africa,
helping the people of Ingwavuma to help themselves.
Cyber Picket: www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/union
Extensive world trade union directory, based at Cardiff University
School for Social Sciences
IPACT: www.impact.ie
UNISON's sister union in the republic of Ireland
Labour Research Department: www.lrd.org.uk
Research into all sorts of labour related issues, with essential
catalogue of publications.
Labourstart: www.labourstart.org
Trade Union News service
Trade Union Congress: www.tuc.org.uk
70 member unions, representing nearly 7 million members. Phwew! the big boys!
Trade Union Congress Wales: www.wtuc.org.uk
The Wales TUC is an integral part of the Trades Union Congress of
the UK, established to ensure that the role of the TUC is effectively
undertaken in Wales.
Hazards: www.hazards.org
Leading UK H&S magazine
Health and Safety Executive: www.hse.gov.uk
The last word on H&S in the UK.
Simon Jones Memorial Campaign: www.simonjones.org.uk
Campaigning to prevent another tragedy like that of Simon Jones,
killed on his first day at work. Particularly campaigns against
casualisation.
Action Aid: www.actionaid.org
Fighting poverty in the 3rd world
Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org
Campaigning for political prisoners throughout the world
Baby Milk Action: www.babymilkaction.org
You will be surprised at some of the low down dirty tricks some
baby milk companies get up to.
Banana Link: www.bananalink.org.uk
Do you know where your banana was grown? This lot are campaigning
for fair trade bananas
British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection: www.buav.org
Campaigning against experiments on animals
Campaign Against The Arms Trade: www.caat.org.uk
It's all about money. Many arms companies do not care who they sell
arms to.
Campaign for Freedom of Information: www.cfoi.org.uk
Against un-necessary government secrecy…. But don't tell anyone!
Campaign Nuclear Disarmament: www.cnduk.org
Original and best, still peaceniks after all these years.
Charter 88: www.charter88.org.uk
For the reform of UK democracy and a written constitution - aka
Unlock Democracy.
Corporate Watch: www.corporatewatch.org.uk
Looking to find out what a particular corporation has been up to?
Look no further!
Defend Council Housing: www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk
Fighting against housing stock transfer into the private sector
Ethical Trade: www.ethicaltrade.org
The ETI is an alliance of companies, non-governmental organisations
(NGOs), and trade union organisations committed to working together
to identify and promote ethical trade
European Court Of Human Rights: www.echr.coe.int
Protecting Human Rights in Europe
Fair Trade: www.fairtrade.org.uk
Helping farmers and workers in the developing world get a decent
price for their goods.
Friends of the Earth: www.foe.co.uk
Eco friendly Non-Governmental Organisation
Greenpeace: www.greenpeace.org
Saviours of the planet
Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org
Watching human rights!
International Searchlight: www.searchlightmagazine.com
Shining the light on the activities of the far right
Jubilee Plus: www.jubilee2000uk.org
Drop Third World Debt
Killer Coke: www.killercoke.org
Sign of the free west? The misery behind the label.
Labour Behind The Label: www.labourbehindthelabel.org
Brings together pressure groups, trade unions and individuals in
support of garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions
and wages.
Liberty: www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Formerly National Council For Civil Liberties
McSpotlight: www.mcspotlight.org
The truth about McDonalds and MUCH more
No Sweat: www.nosweat.org.uk
Campaigning against sweatshops
OutRage! www.petertatchell.net World's most notorious gay rights activist, dedicated to fighting homophobia and achieving equal civil rights.
Oxfam: www.oxfam.org.uk
Dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and suffering
around the world
Privacy International: www.privacyinternational.org
Against Big Brother
Stonewall Lobby: www.stonewall.org.uk Working towards the advancement of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of lesbians and gay men.
Survival International: www.survival-international.org
For indigenous people throughout the world
War on Want: www.waronwant.org
Poverty is not inevitable, there is more than enough to go around.
World Development Movement: www.wdm.org.uk
Campaigning against globalisation and for a level playing field
for the developing world
Cabinet Office: www.cabinet-office.gov.uk
Fastest and fullest access to information published by the Cabinet
Office
Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.equalityhumanrights.com
Replaces the old Campaign for Racial Equality
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
www.defra.gov.uk
OPSI/HMSO: www.opsi.gov.uk
Her Majesty's Stationery Office/Office of Public Sector
Information
House of Commons Library Research Papers: www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_Publications_and_archives/
Access to the text of Research Papers compiled for the benefit of British MPs by the staff of the House of Commons Library. Usually deal with topics of current parliamentary interest and aim to be politically impartial
Local Government Association: www.lga.gov.uk
Association for Local Government!
National Assembly of Wales:
www.wales.gov.uk
Cyber home of the Welsh Assembly
Number 10 Downing Street: www.number-10.gov.uk
Briefings and latest policy from the heart of government
Office of National Statistics: www.statistics.gov.uk
83.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Parliament: www.parliament.uk
Big place by the side of the Thames with a clock. Once visited by
Guy Fawkes.
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council:
www.rhondda-cynon-taff.gov.uk
Corporate website for those lovely people who pay the wages of us
RCT UNISON members.
UK Government Information Service: www.direct.gov.uk
Unite Against Fascism: www.uaf.org.uk
Say No! to the BNP
Welsh Local Government Association: www.wlga.gov.uk
Association of Local Governments in Wales!
Action for South Africa: www.actsa.org
Fighting poverty, AIDS and many other problems in SA
Burma Campaign UK: www.burmacampaign.org.uk
Campaigns for human rights and democracy in Burma.
Columbian Solidarity Campaign: www.columbiasolidarity.org.uk
On average, one trade unionist is assassinated every day in Columbia,
the most dangerous country in the world.
Community H.E.A.R.T.: www.community-heart.org.uk
Community H.E.A.R.T. (Health Education And Reconstruction Training),
a UK based Registered Charity, was set up when Nelson Mandela was
elected President of free South Africa to overcome apartheid's awful
legacy.
Council of Europe: www.coe.int
Intergovernmental organisation protecting human rights, pluralist
democracy and the rule of law and promoting awareness and development
of Europe's cultural identity and diversity
Cuba Solidarity Campaign: www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk
Blockaded by the US since the revolution in 1959, in need of all
sorts of help.
Free Tibet: www.freetibet.org
Campaigning for the right of the Tibetan people to determine their
own future
Global Unions: www.global-unions.org
The global union website, jointly owned and run by the international
trade union movement.
International Congress of Free Trade Unions: www.icftu.org
The ICFTU was set up in 1949 and has 225 affiliated organisations
in 148 countries and territories on all five continents, with a
membership of 157 million. It also maintains close links with the
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and Global Union Federations.
International Labour organisation: www.ilo.org
The promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human
and labour rights.
Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP): www.khrp.org
KHRP is committed to the protection of the human rights of all persons
within the Kurdish regions.
Medecins Sans Frontieres: www.uk.msf.org
Independent humanitarian medical aid ready for action anywhere in
the world
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign: www.nicaraguasc.org.uk
Following in the tradition of the Sandinistas
Palestine Solidarity Campaign: www.palestinecampaign.org
Aim to build an effective mass campaign, organising protests, political
lobbying and raising public awareness.
Public Services International: www.world-psi.org
PSI is made up of more than 600 public service trade unions in more
than 140 countries. Together these unions represent more than 20
million public sector workers.
Voluntary Service Overseas: www.vso.org.uk
Put your money where your mouth is.
AK Press: www.akuk.com
Radical bookshop with MASSIVE catalogue of books, magazines, audio,
shirts and much more
Bookmarks:
www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk
Possibly the best socialist bookshop in the UK
British Library: www.bl.uk
The British Library's collection of over 150 million items covers
every age and place of written civilisation, from unique historical
documents to the latest information sources for business, industry
and research
George Monbiot: www.monbiot.com
Home of journalist and author responsible for 'The Captive State'
and 'The Age Of Consent, among other things
Gingerbread: www.gingerbread.org.uk
Support organisation for lone parent families in England and Wales
Green Net: www.gn.apc.org
Supports a progressive community working for Peace, the Environment,
Civil Rights and Social Justice, through the use of Information
Communication Technologies
Indymedia: www.indymedia.org.uk
Well written, frequently updated, independent news site
INK: Independent News Collective: www.ink.uk.com
Umbrella for distribution of independent press publications
Left Click: www.left-click.com
IT and web solutions for trade unions and campaign organisations
LETSlink UK: www.letslinkuk.org
National Development Agency and support network for Local Exchange
Trading Schemes and other forms of local currency in the UK.
Morning Star:
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
No, not the pub in Pontypridd, Britain's only national daily newspaper
of the left. Deserves support for that reason alone
National Library of Wales: www.llgc.org.uk
Go on, read a book, it's better than watching TV all night!
New Internationalist: www.newint.org
Highly informative magazine on poverty and injustice around the
world and much more
Poptel:
www.thephone.coop
Co-operatve providing internet resources (the people that make
the UNISON ISP possible!)
RCT Pensions: www.rctpensions.org.uk
We will all get old one day...... hopefully! Look here to see how
the RCT pension is managed.
Red Pepper: www.redpepper.org.uk
Red Hot left of centre magazine
ResistanceMP3: www.resistancemp3.org.uk
Hear presentations on topics from Anti Capitalism to Zionism
SchNEWS: www.schnews.org.uk
Weekly news from beyond the mainstream
Shop Ethical:
www.ethicalsuperstore.com
Where to buy stuff that is not destroying the planet or peoples
lives
Workers Education Association: www.wea.org.uk
UK's largest voluntary provider of adult education. Founded in 1903,
in order to support the educational needs of working men and women.
Working Class Movement Library: www.wcml.org.uk
Library for the labour movement
Z mag: www.zmag.org
American based site, regularly updated with in depth articles from
the likes of John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk etc. Definitely
one to get you thinking.
Every effort has been made to ensure all these links are active and are in line with UNISON's aims and values, but inclusion in our list of links should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. The branch is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the externally linked web sites and does not necessarily agree with the views expressed within them. If you find that any of these sites are no longer available, that they contain information which is 'a bit dodgy', or if you have any suggestions or reccomendations for other sites to be included, please contact the branch office:
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