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TURCPress

  1. New research by TES has revealed that local authorities spent more than £8.5 million on facility time for the education unions in 2011-12
  2. Councils are cutting union subsidies by up to 50% bit.ly/KHXLu9
  3. Good meetings in the US this week. They are facing the same issues around Pilgrims as in the UK.
  4. @RoperCarl unite conference has more motions defending pilgrims than defending the NHS.
  5. If teachers want to strike they should do so in August.
  6. Unite conference has more motions defending facility time (7) than defending the NHS(4). They put their own wallets before public services.
  7. @GazTheJourno motions 140 to 146.
  8. Seven Unite conference motions condemning TURC and defending the indefensible facilty time leftfutures.org/wp-content/upl…
  9. "@Ed_Miliband: List of meetings and dinners with trade union general secs" - admits meeting union paymasters on average on a weekly basis
  10. "@Ed_Miliband: List of meetings and dinners with trade union general secretaries" - 20 weeks; 20 union donor meetings
  11. "@Ed_Miliband: List of meetings and dinners with donors and trade union general secretaries" - 20 union funder meetings in just 5 months