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Pregnant mums are still losing jobs

Jul 24, 2015By UNITElive

More than 50,000 women are losing their jobs every year as a direct result of maternity discrimination in the workplace, a new report reveals.       The shocking figures are part of an…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015UNITElive

Owen Jones: holder of the Blairite flame?

Jul 24, 2015By Martin Wicks

Reading Owen Jones piece in yesterday’s Guardian I had to check again whether it had really been written by him. The article castigates the Blairites in the Labour Party over their abstention on the welfare bill parliamentary vote. He complains that they failed to defend New labour’s…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015Martin Wicks

Rättvisa lön: IKEA unveil plan to build a Living Wage

Jul 24, 2015By Stronger Unions

Great news this week for Usdaw members in IKEA, as the Swedish flat pack furniture giant have committed to sign up as a Living Wage employer.Read more…

Jul 24, 2015Stronger Unions

Bees or bust

Jul 24, 2015By UNITElive

We hear their buzzing drone and we’re enchanted. As we enjoy the site of an amber and black striped bumble on a lavender spike we shouldn’t forget two things: that numbers have fallen and…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015UNITElive

This is my home

Jul 24, 2015By UNITElive

Anti-racism campaigners Show Racism the Red Card have just launched a new campaign in Scotland called #ThisisMyHome.   The campaign group uses football heroes as well as us everyday folk to help…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015UNITElive

‘Austerity is over’ shocker

Jul 24, 2015By UNITElive

Austerity is over, the new Tory minister in charge of the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ has declared. That’s great news, coming in the wake of the end of poverty and economic sunshine breaking out over the…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015UNITElive

IMPORTANT NEWS: Barnet UNISON Office is moving today

Jul 24, 2015By Barnet UNISON

The Barnet UNISON office is due to move today Friday 24 July from NLBP to Barnet House

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Jul 24, 2015Barnet UNISON

What’s wrong with ISDS? Romania’s environment & history under attack

Jul 24, 2015By Touchstone blog

The latest example of what’s wrong with Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) – the privileged route to riches for foreign investors who can persuade a separate international court that they have been disadvantaged by a democratically-elected government – is a case being lodged…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015Touchstone blog

Tens of thousands of women a year suffer pregnancy discrimination but only a handful enforce their rights

Jul 24, 2015By Touchstone blog

Today, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has published findings from the largest ever survey of the scale of pregnancy discrimination in Britain’s workplaces. Its headline finding: one in nine new mothers is forced out of work each year because of their pregnancy or maternity leave. That’s…Read more…

Jul 24, 2015Touchstone blog

ISDS: we won’t be fooled by a rebranding

Jul 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

Yesterday, Brussels was full of rumours that the European Commission had finally found a way to respond to the massive backlash generated by its proposal for a special court for US investors: a simple rebranding should do the trick. Currently known as …Read more…

Jul 23, 2015Touchstone blog

“Cash strapped Councils struggle to cope as Osborne’s austerity cuts bite”

Jul 23, 2015By Martin Wicks

Research by the Financial Times shows the extent to which local authorities are struggling to cope with the cuts in funding associated with the coalition government’s ‘austerity’ measures. The FT reported that vital services to 150,000 pensioners have been withdrawn whilst child…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015Martin Wicks

UNISON Selection of Labour’s Leader and Deputy Leader Candidates

Jul 23, 2015By John's Labour blog

This survey below has gone out to all UNISON members in Greater London region who pay a voluntary affiliation levy to the Labour Party.  We did a similar survey for the London Mayoral candidate and got an excellent response.

I hope to be able to…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015John's Labour blog

Chancellor takes the high carbon road

Jul 23, 2015By Touchstone blog

Is the government about to take a series of high carbon decisions that will replace renewables with fossil fuels? Decisions are imminent on Cuadrilla’s fracking appeal, launched today, and Heathrow’s third runway. Meanwhile, the Chancellor is unceremoniously dumping green policies, while assuring…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015Touchstone blog

The truth must out

Jul 23, 2015By UNITElive

Two years into the coalition government’s austerity programme in 2012, routine figures released by the department of work and pensions revealed a shocking phenomenon – in just one year (2011) more…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015UNITElive

Productivity should be an integral part of the progressive agenda

Jul 23, 2015By UnionHome

Throughout post war history but markedly since the election UK workers have been told they are not productive enough. In a return to the union bashing anti-worker approach of the 1970s and 1980s the…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015UnionHome

Our car workers are star workers

Jul 23, 2015By UNITElive

The news that automotive workers are the UKs most productive employees, each generating £100,000 a year in added value, will come as no surprise to Unite members working in the sector.  …Read more…

Jul 23, 2015UNITElive

Isle of Wight media take up issues surrounding “Save the Trains”…

Jul 23, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

The neo-liberal offensive, involving Austerity, Productivity and Social Programmes has met with much resistance since the island press first exposed how the Conservative MP has plotted to attack the…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015Rtuc's Blog

Basic Organisation

Jul 23, 2015By Rtuc's Blog

Mat Thomas Some might say that organising is about taking professional minutes or putting out rules, others might say it’s about ‘democratic centralism’. The reality is that people need…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015Rtuc's Blog

Older workers – Can we afford to ignore them?

Jul 23, 2015By UnionHome

The workplace at present is full of uncertainties and insecurity.  But one thing is certain. The workforce is getting older and workers, by choice or necessity, are working longer.  So what are…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015UnionHome

Solidarity and freedom

Jul 23, 2015By UNITElive

The fight to reinstate the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) goes on despite the election of the most extreme right wing government since Mrs Thatcher, pledged Unite agricultural workers’ leader,…Read more…

Jul 23, 2015UNITElive
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