Fatal accident involving ambulance staff in North Wales has ‘devastated’ colleagues
The article Special statement from UNISON Cymru Wales on ambulance tragedy first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Safe workers, safe products
The chemical and pharmaceutical industry is the pride of UK manufacturing – it adds £15bn of value to the UK economy every year and is the largest manufacturing exporter with annual exports close to…Read more…
Health and safety: Another reason for staying in
Yesterday tens of thousands of trade unionists took part in activities to commemorate those who died through work. The theme of Workers Memorial Day was “strong laws, strong enforcement , strong…Read more…
Capitulation to pay cut signals end of national pay bargaining in local government?
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2016/04/unison-moves-accept-council-pay-deal
It would not have been wise to have blogged immediately about the abysmal outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of UNISON’s National Joint Council (NJC) Committee.
Even your blog…Read more…
The final solution on Sark
This article appears today in the Jewish Chronicle. One of the most shocking documents on display at Yad Vashem is a typed list prepared by Adolf Eichmann for the Wannsee conference held in January…Read more…
NIESR report shows need to end race to the bottom on jobs
A report released this week by NIESR identifies low pay and precarious contracts as one of the key reason more local workers do not take up jobs in the hospitality, food processing and construction sectors leading employers in these sectors to draw on migrant workers from other EU countries, who…Read more…
Join the Leeds TUC may Day march this Saturday
Join us this Saturday at our May Day March and Rally, 11.30am, Victoria Gardens, Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AA
Speakers include:
Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary
Richard Burgon, Leeds West MP
Melody…Read more…
‘Fight, fight, fight’
Short film with extracts from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
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Work death probe call
Unite has called for the Health and Safety Executive to conduct a full and prompt investigation into the tragic death today (April 28) of a construction worker on the Queensferry Crossing over the…Read more…
Fish firm’s workers face the sack
The row over Grimsby-based Icelandic Seachill, accused of paying for the new ‘national living wage’ by slashing overtime rates, has been taken to the European Commission, as the workforce faces the…Read more…
As we condemn the Trade Union Bill we shouldn’t overlook what our campaigning has achieved
This is a bad bill but without the labour movement pushing back with passion and vigour, it could have been much worse.
The article As we condemn the Trade Union Bill we shouldn’t overlook what our…Read more…
Passionate speeches
Merseyside today (April 28) remembered its loved ones that have been killed and died as a result of work. International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) began in the USA in 1970 and its success…Read more…
Across boundaries and oceans
In 1916 two seminal events that would shape the future of both Northern Ireland and the Republic took place. It was the year not only of the Easter Rising but also of the Battle of the Somme – one of…Read more…
Rhondda Cynon Taf becomes latest council to condemn TTIP
UNISON congratulates south Wales council on adopting motion condemning secretary trade deal
The article Rhondda Cynon Taf becomes latest council to condemn TTIP first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Resist safety erosion
Unite today, April 28, said attempts by Conservative ministers and unscrupulous bosses to dilute or circumvent health and safety legislation across the UK must be resisted when at least two people a…Read more…
Further education workers demand a decent pay rise
Joint unions submit claim for £1 an hour pay rise and the living wage as a minimum in England
The article Further education workers demand a decent pay rise first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Workers’ lives at risk
Attempts by Tory ministers and unscrupulous bosses to dilute or circumvent health and safety legislation along the south coast must be resisted. This is the core message that was the theme of…Read more…
International Workers Memorial Day
Today is International Workers Memorial Day. When we go home to our loved ones tonight, we should remember the twenty Scottish workers last year, three a week across the UK, who didn’t make it home…Read more…
“My employer ‘gave’ me to someone else”
Hopeful migrant workers receive training on their rights, prior to departure for construction industry jobs in the Middle East (credit: CEC, India) Ruchi Gupta from the Centre for Education and…Read more…
Mahdi Free! Bahraini teachers’ union leader released
Mahdi Abu Dheeb, the leader of the Bahrain Teachers Association (BTA) was freed on 5th April 2016 from a Bahraini jail after serving five years. He was jailed by a military court in 2011, accused of…Read more…