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Kate Ramsden
First Minister John Swinney during a visit to Forth Valley C
Voices of Scotland / 17 September 2024
17 September 2024
KATE RAMSDEN calls out the SNP’s political choices, citing STUC research showing billions could be raised through progressive taxation to fund vital social work and care — instead, we’re being threatened with more cuts
Papers
Features / 31 August 2024
31 August 2024
KATE RAMSDEN explains why Scottish women decided to set up a women's RSG and invites all sisters to attend its next webinar on Tuesday
Money
Voices of Scotland / 18 February 2024
18 February 2024
Properly funded public services are good for the economy as a whole, says KATE RAMSDEN
Children of palestine
Features / 3 February 2024
3 February 2024
In Gaza and the West Bank children are living in a world of horror, forced to watch their friends and family killed or maimed, traumatised by the constant danger from the Israeli attacks, writes KATE RAMSDEN
Social care work
Voices of Scotland / 14 August 2023
14 August 2023
In the past, egalitarian trade union politics went hand in hand with how we saw our role in society itself — we must fight to preserve that in the changing sociopolitical context, writes KATE RAMSDEN
unison
Voices of Scotland / 14 February 2023
14 February 2023
Unison will commemorate International Women’s Day in Glasgow this year with a series of workshops and entertainment, writes KATE RAMSDEN
Care Service
Features / 1 December 2022
1 December 2022
Unison completely supports a new, expanded care system — but what the Scottish government has put in front of us enables the break-up and privatisation of social work, institutionalising insecurity, warns KATE RAMSDEN
Scotland care work
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 1 August 2022
1 August 2022
We were beginning to make progress on the challenges facing social workers that see so many leave the job only a few years after qualifying — instead the NCS Bill has taken things out of our hands once more, warns KATE RAMSDEN
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 8 June 2021
8 June 2021
The recent growth of the unions in membership and activity gives us the chance to learn from the past and turn the tables on the right-wing agenda, says KATE RAMSDEN
Foodbank
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 19 October 2020
19 October 2020
Although Challenge Poverty Week is a worthy endeavour, we need to be much more radical if we’re to address the constant economic pressure on the very poorest in society, says KATE RAMSDEN
Glasgow skyline
Features / 29 March 2020
29 March 2020
A breakthrough independent review has taken place over 3 years, speaking to 5,500 social workers, looked-after adults and children, reports KATE RAMSDEN
Scottish flag
Features / 31 January 2020
31 January 2020
KATE RAMSDEN of Unison’s Scottish committee explains the challenge in the face of the demands for a second independence referendum and how the union is approaching it