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Most people join a union for personal advice and support at work or the benefits of having collective bargaining over your terms and conditions.
Free legal advice and representation by trusted and expert union lawyers is also something to bear …Read more…
Balfour Beatty issues another profit warning UK engineering group Balfour Beatty has issued another profit warning, saying its 2015 results will be hit by a “shortfall” of £120m-£150m….Read more…
Yesterday I had the honour of addressing the Congress of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), and a large part of my speech focused on the challenges facing the European Union. Including, of…Read more…
Unite welcomed today’s (July 9) decision by Young’s Seaford to focus production at its Grimsby sites in a move that secures 500 jobs and the future of the threatened Marsden Road factory in the town….Read more…
There’s no doubt public sector workers form the backbone of society and keep the essential services we often take for granted ticking over. Despite the value they deliver to every single…Read more…
There was solid support for the London Underground stoppage today (July 9) among members of Unite, who were on strike in a dispute over the introduction of all-night Tube services from September….Read more…
It is an austerity budget full of deception – thousands taken from the poorest, tens of thousands given to the richest, more tax cuts for businesses and a savage battering of the young. The…Read more…
Tube strike begins across London Underground network Tube staff have gone on strike across the entire London Underground network in a row over pay and conditions. The strike, which officially began…Read more…
In 1973, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Bob Fulton, three Unite members took a stand against a coup on the other side of the world. They refused to help Pinochet bomb the people of Chile. …Read more…
The Greece-tuc-meeting, TUC Congress House was packed on Monday night to celebrate the remarkable victory for OXI/NO in Sunday’s referendum in Greece. The Greece Solidarity Campaign’s rally was…Read more…
The Chancellor’s £3.9 billion tax on renewable energy generators “is a punitive measure for the clean energy sector…another example of this Government’s unfair, illogical and obsessive attacks on renewables.” Renewable electricity will no longer be exempt from the Climate Change Levy…Read more…
Today George Osborne announced that I and my NHS colleagues will face another four years of restricted pay. It is an absolute insult to the passionate healthcare staff who work in the NHS….Read more…
Following yesterday’s Budget (July 8), Unite warned George Osborne that his plan to scrap the bank levy shows the Tory government are ditching their responsibility to bring order to the…Read more…
Young members in Unite have condemned yesterday’s Tory Budget following what we believe to be an assault on young people by the Chancellor. George Osbourne has committed to ending university…Read more…
MEPs voted yesterday on an important report concerning the TTIP EU-US trade deal.Read more…
The main excitement on Wednesday was motion 2/1 from the Executive Council, which removed “so far as may be lawful from rule “2.1 The objects of the Union shall, as far as may be lawful, be:”. Len McCluskey gave a great speech arguing why it was …Read more…
http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=733&MId=9423
With apologies for parochialism, I didn’t want to let pass blogging my attendance (though not as a member) at the inaugural meeting of the local Pensions Board last night (toppin…Read more…
The European Parliament has finally voted on its resolution about the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership, or TTIP, the EU-US trade deal being negotiated by Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and US Trade Representative Mike Froman. Most of the news yesterday was about a compromise over…Read more…
There is an ongoing selection process to replace London Assembly Member, John Biggs, who has been elected as Mayor of Tower Hamlets and will be stepping down from his City and East London seat.
There are 18 candidates!
Greater London UNISON L…Read more…
Derbyshire scraps school crossings A total of 54 Derbyshire schools will have no crossing patrol and 42 more could lose theirs Almost 100 schools in Derbyshire could be without a crossing patrol if…Read more…