Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards
The article The government is failing teaching assistants, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
WTF?! Four dangerous trade deals – and the acronyms they hide behind
CETA, TTIP, TISA … confused? Here’s our handy guide to those awkward acronyms.Read more…
Asian Cleaners on strike 1985
NUPE & COHSE Asian cleaners on strike at Hillingdon Hospital 23rd May 1985 against pay cuts and privatisationRead more…
Neasden Hospital Occupation 1986
Nurses Clinical Grading Dispute 1988
NUPE and COHSE Nurses at North Manchester General Hospital burn job description forms in 1988Read more…
Hounslow Hospital Occupation 1977
COHSE Ambulance Personnel
London Nurses Demand Affordable Housing
London nurses campaign for affordable housing circa 1997 at Battersea power station, LondonRead more…
London Nurses campaign aginst cuts 1996
COHSE Nurses strike 1988 Maudsley Hospital
COHSE Nurses Maudsley Hospital 1988
OBR wrong to continue absolving Osborne’s polices for a deficit now 3x larger than planned
TUC has argued that the economy and public finances were derailed over the coalition years because government spending cuts had a larger-than-expected impact on the wider economy (see e.g. blog, paper). Earlier this week the Office for Budget Responsib…Read more…
When steelworkers needed them most, ministers walked away …
MEP Jude Kirton-Darling says the UK government must act to save jobs on TeesideRead more…
‘Steel heart’ strategy plea
As the business secretary Sajid Javid opens today’s steel industry summit (October 16), Unite has demanded the government “pursues an industrial strategy with a ‘steel heart’.” …Read more…
Qatar wants us to check our facts – it’s time they let us
Next month Qatar has a chance to put its disputed record on workers’ rights to the test When Zaha Hadid, architect of Qatar’s under-construction Al Wakrah football stadium, lashed out at the BBC last…Read more…
Episode 5: ‘I don’t need any help’
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week….Read more…
Open University staff balloted for strike action over job losses
UCU condemns plans to sack 500 staff across seven centresRead more…
Workers’ rights: no longer safe anywhere?
I’ve just come back from the annual meeting of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) general council, held ahead of the CUT Brazilian trade union movement’s congress in Sao…Read more…
Unite urges minsters to keep the Redcar ovens burning
Union AGS Tony Burke attends steel summit in RotherhamRead more…
Unions tell MPs that TU Bill is a major attack on workers’ rights
General secretaries give evidence in ParliamentRead more…