The View From Middleton Farmhouse

Welcome to The View From Middleton Farmhouse - the NGSU Blog. Here General Secretary Tim Poil; NGSU President Bill Blumsom and Assistant General Secretaries Marian Dean and Tim Rose discuss union activity and issues impacting on members both at work and the world at large. Members are encouraged to debate these and other issues in the NGSU Forum - click here to register.

Post: The Eye of the Telescope

Published 2nd June 2011 at 8:37:12

Here at the Union we tend to see and hear about things when they are going wrong and these become the focus of our agenda with Nationwide. That’...

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Post: It's a Fair Cop

Published 13th May 2011 at 16:33:54

We have been (rightly) admonished by one of our Forum members for breaking our New Year’s resolution to ‘blog’ more regularly! It’s fast approac...

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Post: Seasons Greetings from all at NGSU

Published 17th December 2010 at 15:14:0

Another hectic and turbulent year is drawing to a close. You don’t need us to tell you it has been a difficult 12 months – more redundancies; mo...

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Post: Justice for Colombia

Published 15th December 2010 at 16:7:4

I had the privilege of attending an event held at the TUC on Friday the 10 December ‘Colombia: Building Solidarity’. There were a number of sess...

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Post: King Congress

Published 17th September 2010 at 11:10:11

Bill continues our blog from the TUC Congress, reporting on Meryvn's Kings speech... Today's main event at Congress was the a...

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Post: NGSU at the TUC Congress

Published 15th September 2010 at 13:21:21

The 142nd Trade Unions Congress is taking place this week (13th - 16th September 2010) in Manchester. NGSU, as a TUC affiliate, is able to send ...

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Post: Never too old to...keep working

Published 30th July 2010 at 13:42:0

I was pleased to see the plans announced by the government this week to scrap the default retirement age of 65 from 1 October 2011. Under curren...

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Post: Like it or Lump it

Published 17th June 2010 at 12:14:48

I rang my mum last Sunday and was surprised by how keen she was to talk about a Radio 4 interview she’d heard. This involved a Nationwide spokes...

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Post: The View From the Farmhouse

Published 16th June 2010 at 16:59:19

The Union moved to the ‘Farmhouse’ in the village of Middleton Cheney (5 minutes from the M40 junction at Banbury) back in the early 1990’s. Our...

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Post: Welcome

Published 16th June 2010 at 14:33:12

Many NGSU members have told us that they want to hear more from the Union about what we do and our views on issues that affect them. So with tha...

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