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The UNISON community conference started on Saturday afternoon after the close of the seminar. I spoke in favour of this motion below.
“Conference, President, John Gray, one of your elected Community ＮＥＣ members and proud to be a health and safety rep. Moving motion 2 “Violence at Work” on behalf…Read more…
Workers in the UK are being cheated of more than £30bn in unpaid labour over the course of a year, a new TUC analysis has found. More than five million people worked an average of 7.7 hours…Read more…
UNITElive caught up with a delegation of steelworkers on their way to attend an opposition day debate on the future of steel tonight (February 29) in Parliament. We spoke to Jason Bartlett…Read more…
Farm workers in Wales celebrated on Friday (February 26) as they received a six per cent pay rise, after the Welsh government signed off on an historic Order enabling it to set its own minimum rates….Read more…
The fate of the Shepton Mallet Cider Mill, which faces closure at the end of the summer with the loss of 120 jobs, is symptomatic of a wider problem facing the West Country – how to create decent,…Read more…
Commenting on the BBC story on the high number of vacant posts in the NHS, UNISON Head of Health Christina McAnea said: “Cutting vital nursing jobs in a bid to save money is a false economy. As a…Read more…
Agreement reached on regrading to reflect paramedics’ skills as UNISON prepared for industrial action ballot
The article Yorkshire ambulance paramedics win pay rise first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Neath Port Talbot set to pay as registration fees for school support staff as UNISON campaign continues
The article Neath Port Talbot becomes latest Welsh council to agree to pay fees first appeared…Read more…
Facility time, overwork and workplace stress among the big themes as unions engage with employers
The article UNISON Scotland joins day of action against Trade Union Bill first appeared on the…Read more…
UNISON, UCU and NUS unite to launch Don’t cut me out campaign for funding of post-16 education
The article Unions challenge Assembly Members to unlock Wales’ potential first appeared on the…Read more…
What Stand to Take on the European Union In the context of the Referendum as to whether Britain should remain in or leave the European Union, we are reprinting the following which originally appeared…Read more…
The Unison Community seminar resumed on Saturday morning with workshops, followed by a panel debate headed by our lay President, Wendy Nichols, on “any questions about Unison”. There was questions about democratic processes, low turnout in union electi…Read more…
It is known that workers’ rights met their strongest opposition through the inception of Thatcherite neo-liberalism in the 1980’s. In Britain the challenge to workers’ organisation,…Read more…
Low pay and attacks on terms and conditions following on from underfunding mean ‘a broken system held together by compassion and dedication of exploited workforce’
The article Community activists…Read more…
The Government is currently consulting on what they euphemistically refer to as “reforms” of “public sector exit payments” – in other words a wholesale attack upon the rights of public servants facing redundancy.You can read the complete consultation document online – and you should. What began as…Read more…
The Proletarian Front Appears in All Its Determination and Splendour! Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto: The Proletarian Front Appears in All Its Determination and Splendour! Read more…
Vital evidence risks being destroyed because police forces are failing to properly train and protect the support staff who regularly guard crime scenes, says a UNISON report today (Saturday). The…Read more…
Delegates declare its time to act as charity, care and housing workers experience assaults
The article Violence isn’t part of the job, community delegates agree first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
UNISON calls for protection for members and transparency from trustees in the wake of high-profile charity collapses
The article Charity trustees need to be transparent, community conference…Read more…
‘We need to work together,’ shadow minister Anna Turley tells union activist from community and voluntary sector
The article ‘Your role, your voice, has never been more valuable’ first…Read more…