TUC general secretary accuses government of wanting to turn back the clock to Victorian times over workers’ rightsRead more…
Businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks:
Tax and spending The £93bn handshake: businesses pocket huge subsidies and tax breaks Guardian’s analysis reveals that hidden subsidies, direct grants and tax breaks to big business amount to £3,500…Read more…
Denis Healey: the Labour Giant who did the dirty work for socialism
I was at home today recovering still from this weeks’ Labour Party conference, when I saw on the news that Denis Healey had died this morning in his sleep aged 98.
Which is a good age by any standards, so some of the reporting I have seen that his dea…Read more…
Screening of Pride: Ruskin College, 16th Oct @ 6pm
Colleagues,
To mark the end of the series of events at Ruskin which have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1984-85 miner’s strike, I’ve organised a screening of the hit film Pride for 16th October. The film unpicks the important role of the suppo…Read more…
Housing Associations capitulate over ‘right to buy’
When the idea of the extension of ‘right to buy’ to housing associations was first floated housing association representative, including David Orr, head of the National Housing Federation (the ‘trade organisation’ of housing associations) were talking of fighting the…Read more…
Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald: My Plea To Save SSI Redcar
As As the Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough with many, many thousands of constituents devastated by the SSI collapse, I plead with the Government to consider my analysis. Now that the…Read more…
10,900 working families in West Ham to lose out in Tory tax credit “snatch and grab” – 5.2 Million children affected Nationally
A horrifying report is released today by UNISON on the impact of the Government cuts in Tax credits next April. The rise in the minimum wage will not offset these cuts.
Working families and their children who already find it a struggle to survive are about to lose as much as £60 per week. This is…Read more…
Unite Cab Driver Mike Hedges on Uber “We want a level playing field”
WIN! National Gallery strikers return to work on Monday
Sacked rep reinstated and jobs protected after 100-day PCS strikeRead more…
TUC March and Rally Manchester – Sunday October 4
Early start tomorrow morning (Sunday) to take the train to Manchester for March & Rally. I will be with the UNISON Greater London Regional banner. “No to Austerity – Yes to Workers’ Rights
National rally and march on the Tory conference
As the Conservative Party Conference meets…Read more…
Government’s tax credit snatch and grab will hit more than 2.7m working households across the UK
Tax credit cuts will leave millions of families with 5.2 million children worse off says UNISON research published today
The article Government’s tax credit snatch and grab will hit more than 2.7m…Read more…
Nominate Dave Prentis to be our UNISON General Secretary
Last week my UNISON branch Executive Committee voted to support the nomination of Dave Prentis as our next General Secretary.
This week Greater London UNISON Regional Committee voted the same.
Yesterday our National UNISON Community (Housing Associ…Read more…
TU Bill: CoSLA’s pledge to defy and UNISON Scotland video
As we gear up to the Manchester Rally, UNISON Scotland has welcomed the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) announcement on 28 September: “Scotland’s Councils have come out in force today to stand shoulder to shoulder with their trade union colleagues against the UK Government’s Trade Union Bill.” Earlier Glasgow, Edinburgh and Renfrewshire councils voted not to co-operate withRead more…
Disinformation About Invasion of Poland
– Hardial Bains – September 1 marks the anniversary of the invasion of Poland by the Hitlerites in 1939. Instead of condemning the Nazis, reactionary forces such as the Harperites use…Read more…
Come clean on wage rates
A public meeting to discuss the next steps in the six-month dispute to ensure an independent audit of wage rates is carried out at the £200m energy-from-waste plant being built at the Wilton complex…Read more…
Breakthrough as radical Jewish-Arab union wins recognition for truckers
A breakthrough for WAC-MAAN after 5 years of Truckers organizing drive when “Movilei Dror” Company recognized it as a representative unionRead more…
Unite drives forward lifelong learning
Unite and logistics company Wincanton signed a learning agreement today (October 2) that sees the opening of a Learning Centre for staff at Lea Green, St Helens in Merseyside. This is…Read more…
Boat builders’ future at risk
A call for high-level talks has been called for over the future of Northamptonshire luxury boat builders, Fairline Boats, which has just laid-off a third of its workforce for up to five weeks. …Read more…
Keep Redcar coke ovens alight
Unite urged ministers to intervene and keep the coke ovens at the Redcar steelworks warm so that production could be resumed in the future and warned that its support package for SSI steelworkers was…Read more…
Scottish council workers vote for two-year pay deal
Ballot sees 88% of local government members in Scotland vote for 1.5% rise for 2015 and1% in 2016
The article Scottish council workers vote for two-year pay deal first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…