Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s annual state of care report published today (Tuesday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “There’s not enough funding for social care, and out of…Read more…
#ONENHS #SamePaySameJob: UNISON Strike for Fair Pay for Compass Hospital Workers
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
We are hospital support staff working for Compass in St Helens & Knowsley and Blackpool NHS Trusts. We keep hospitals clean, cook for patients and keep them safe.
We are paid over £1000 less per year and have worse terms &a…Read more…
Flooring workers ’roundly reject’ pay offer
More than 70 production workers at Forbo Flooring UK Ltd in Ripley, Derbyshire will stage the first of ten 48 hour strikes on Tuesday (October 15), after rejecting a new ‘unsatisfactory’ pay offer,…Read more…
Tips justice finally served?
In what’s been widely criticised as a party political broadcast, today’s (October 14) Queen’s Speech, at a time when the government has no majority, was branded by Unite as an empty gesture that was…Read more…
Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover
Now isn’t the time for game playing or cheap political stunts
The article Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020
Cuts to schools are deeply unfair
The article More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020 first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
What does ‘digital’ mean for your union?
One of the challenges in looking at the experience of digital in UK unions is that there isn’t really any single accepted definition of ‘digital’ across the movement. Different unions currently…Read more…
Review – The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, by Roger Moorhouse
This is how history should be written. Roger Moorhouse has taken a subject rarely covered in detail despite its obvious importance and done a very thorough job of it. He begins the book by pointing…Read more…
Newham Fabians London Labour Policy Conference
This photo college is from yesterday’s all day event in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. This the Fabians at their very best. Great speakers (apart from me – obviously), fair but effective Chairs of panels and genuine questions and real debate about the…Read more…
Why everyone should have the right to work flexibly
It’s time to change the law so that every employer has a duty to offer flexible working from day one in the job.Read more…
Pay for the top 1% rockets but working people still feel the squeeze
TUC analysis shows that pay for the highest earners rose by 7.6 per cent over the last two years compared to just 0.1 per cent for the typical worker.Read more…
Alignment in exec pay
There’s a lot of commentary from a lot of sources these days arguing against a shareholder-centric corporate governance model. So far, the commentary is far ahead of any policy, and certainly in the US there is scepticism about the motives of those – l…Read more…
Indigenous Resistance Day – Showing Newham solidarity alongside Keir Hardie
Today is #IndigenousResistanceDay remembering the struggle against Colonialism in the Continent of America. (It used to be called “Columbus Day”). After @newhamfabians
event in the historic Old #Stratford town hall we gathered next to bust of avo…Read more…
Love your ward & how about “DustyMcDustFace”?
This afternoon as a local ward Councillor, I went to support this event and speak to residents, officers and volunteers. The weather was not kind but everyone seemed very enthusiastic about its aims of encouraging recycling and the “give & take mar…Read more…
“Labour MPs backing UNISON members taking strike action for fair pay. Solidarity with the Addaction strikers”
UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, tweets his support & thanks Labour MPs Jo Platt, Yvonne Fovargue and Lisa Nandy for being on the picket line
Background to strike on UNISON NW Regional website
Drug and alcohol support workers employed by Lon…Read more…
Blog: Our demands – condemning the invasion and suspending the arms trade
We stand with the Kurdish community and other minorities already suffering in the region who will be the victims of this further destabilisation.
The article Blog: Our demands – condemning the…Read more…
Trump, the Kurds and Normandy
The Kurds currently under attack by Turkish forces “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example,” said US president Donald Trump this week. “They mention…Read more…
‘Brilliant news’
There were jubilant scenes in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena today (October 11) after an 11th hour deal was reached to save hundreds of Wrightbus jobs. One Wrightbus worker (pictured…Read more…
University staff deserve fair pay, says Angela Rayner
Shadow education secretary sends message to UNISON members voting in ballot on pay
The article University staff deserve fair pay, says Angela Rayner first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Nissan warning
Carmaker Nissan has come out with its strongest warning yet against a no-deal Brexit, in an intervention this week that mirrors concerns from Unite’s manufacturing reps. On Thursday (October…Read more…