Unite is at the forefront of Ireland’s Right2Water campaign, which has mobilised hundreds of thousands of people in the Republic against yet another austerity tax: water charges. Although…Read more…
Defend our UNISON rep – Letter to Editor
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The worst Anti-Union Laws ever & still they want more!
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Government takes a swipe at Safety Representatives
The Trade Union Bill is a particular worrying Bill with implications for anyone at work. There have been lots of really good blogs on this site about it so I am not going to repeat these. I just want…Read more…
Planning to let the Greek horse bolt before shutting the stable door
There have been many reactions to the deal forced on the Greek government and its people at the weekend by Eurozone Finance Ministers, mostly outrage or despair. Even the IMF, which bears a lot of the responsibility for imposing an austerity-fuelled re…Read more…
Burma: unions, global brands & NGOs back minimum wage for all
Things are changing in Burma, once a by-word for breaches of ILO core conventions, a no-go country for trade unionists (except for the ones in the military junta’s jails) and home to the…Read more…
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis: My 3 Pledges to you
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NHS Pay Review Body echoes health union views on 7 day NHS
A week after the Chancellor effectively sidelined the NHS Pay Review Body by imposing a 4 year “deal” on pay, the PRB has published its long awaited report on seven day services for NHS staff. The report sets out the conclusions and observations of PRB members who gathered written and…Read more…
How big is your union website?
Recently, I’ve been looking at the sizes of union websites as a benchmarking exercise to inform a union website redesign project. I thought I’d share the results of the analysis, as it provides some…Read more…
Unsocial hours payments should stay
The independent Pay Review Body (PRB), which recommends pay for NHS staff, released a report today (July 16) examining the viability of delivering healthcare services seven days a week. Unite,…Read more…
Coasting schools: why the Education Bill proposals will harm the most disadvantaged
The designation ‘coasting’ severely disadvantages maintained schools – and is designed to do so. Schools with deprived pupil intakes will struggle to meet the threshold to avoid being deemed to be…Read more…
An ‘asinine logic’
In an act of political doublespeak, business secretary Sajid Javid described the purpose of Trade Union Bill – which has its first reading in the House of Commons today – thus, “Trade…Read more…
Noticeable by their absence
Unite will play a leading role in tackling race inequality in the health service, which was discussed on Tuesday (July 14) at a conference held by the union, launching its campaign to support black,…Read more…
‘Bitter blow’
Ministers’ failure to support manufacturing over high energy prices has significantly contributed to the loss of 720 jobs at Tata Steel in Rotherham, Unite said today (July 16). Unite, which…Read more…
Support for families at risk
Health visitor numbers have increased significantly over the past five years, but the coalition government narrowly missed its target of 4,200 new health visitors first set out in 2011. …Read more…
Strike figures show there’s no justification for the Trade Union Bill
The official statistics on work days lost to strike action in the UK are out today, and they show an increase in the number of strikes. In all, 788,000 days of industrial action took place in 2014….Read more…
Strikes at historic low level
The ONS has today published a new report on industrial disputes*. This confirms that they are at a historically low level. Ironically this comes one day after the government published plans to legislate to squeeze strikes. In fact, in the current decade less than a tenth as many days are being lost…Read more…
Protecting apprentices in the workplace
In January 2013, a 16 year old engineering apprentice, Cameron Minshull, tragically lost his life after becoming entangled in a lathe. Prosecutors in Cameron’s case alleged that his employer used…Read more…
ISDS-lite could yet scupper the EU-Canada trade deal
The TUC is no fan of the revised Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process that EU Trade Commissioner Malmstrom has persuaded the European Parliament to back in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the EU and US…Read more…
Speech At The CSEU On The Trade Union Bill
Union members from across shipbuilding and engineering today (July 15th) slammed the government’s Trade Union Bill, as unjust and in favour of employers. Moving an emergency motion, Unite assistant…Read more…