If anybody is thinking of sitting out the local council elections, I sincerely urge you to think again. May 5 is the first opportunity we voters have to send a message that we are fed up with…Read more…
Remember to use your vote – and use it to support UNISON members
Every vote cast in every one of these elections will have a profound impact on the lives of UNISON members, their jobs and the services they provide.
The article Remember to use your vote – and use…Read more…
No ifs nor buts: Get the Vote out for Sadiq Khan as London Mayor (and for Labour everywhere)
It is 7AM and polling stations across the land have just opened.
This is going to be a really close vote in London. Ignore the polls. Every single vote will count. London is a Labour City but unless we turn out our supporters the Tories will win…Read more…
Jailed journalists and a gag order to celebrate press freedom in Egypt
Unconditional support for Egyptian journalists against the flagrant assault on freedom of expression…Read more…
Eve of Poll 4 May 2016 – Getting the Labour Vote out
The day started with some family political scandal via LinkedIn, my lovely sister-in-laws’ current husband, has just defected as a North Wales Councillor (and former Mayor) from Plaid Cymru to the Conservatives. No further comment.
Other than that a b…Read more…
Cash savings are really struggling
At the end of March the ONS released their latest Quarterly national accounts. The stats indicated that household savings are at a fifty year low. A new figure released today indicates that savings are lower than even the March figures implied. The national accounts ratio indicates the amount…Read more…
Think again
Talks between Unite and Unipres have broken down at the automotive company’s facility in Sunderland over proposed changes to a profit-sharing scheme. Unite had requested a meeting with…Read more…
‘Dark day’ for workers
The government’s controversial trade union Bill was granted royal assent this afternoon (May 4) – and now is officially made law. The Bill – which will now as law severely hobble the ability…Read more…
Make one change
Chris Baldwin is head of collaborative learning at William Allitt School in Derbyshire and an ATL rep. There’s so much that’s not cool at the moment in teaching. A lot in education revolves around…Read more…
Your fight is our fight
Unite senior rep and Bentley maintenance technician Stuart Davis shares with us below his experience as part of a delegation to Mexico with Workers Uniting. Workers Uniting, a joint…Read more…
A European success story
Together with Unite national officer Ian Waddell and Labour MEP Glenis Willmott, IndustriAll Europe – the European trade union federation for manufacturing – hosted a high-level European aerospace…Read more…
Cost-cutting ‘death traps’
Dangerous cost cutting has turned more than 80 military training grounds into “death traps” Unite has warned, after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) allowed ‘look out’ firing range wardens to be…Read more…
The government’s plans to axe the NHS bursary place our health service in jeopardy
We need to find a way to address the funding crisis facing students in the NHS – but not by plunging those same students into debt, and putting the future of our health service on the line.
The…Read more…
Someone on our side
Londoners will decide the future of their city in tomorrow’s (May 5) mayoral election. It’s set to be a contest between Labour MP for Tooting Sadiq Khan and Tory MP for Richmond Park and North…Read more…
Another report confirms #Brexit would cause massive uncertainty for working people
The House of Lords’ influential European Union Committee has produced another important report ahead of the EU referendum on 23 June. Following their earlier report in March calling for more attention to be paid to the interests of working people, today’s report emphasises the years of…Read more…
Hrvatski Zvučnici svugdje, pridružite se sindikatu!
OMG how cool is this? A little video about unions that I shot in my lunchbreak 7 years ago has just been remade by trade unionists in Croatia – in Croatian! This really surprised me as I know…Read more…
Greens present draft EU law on whistleblower protection as Deltour trial continues
The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament are presenting a draft for a new EU directive on whistleblower protection, in the face of the continued failure on the part of the European Commission…Read more…
“Remember the dead but fight for the Living”: Workers Memorial Day 2016
Please see attached photo and press release on behalf of UNISON Housing Associations Branch, Newham NUT, Newham United Against Austerity and West Ham Labour TULO.
Last Thursday 28 April Trade Unionists and Labour Party supporters gathered around the “Clasped Hands” statue in Three Mills Green,…Read more…
Brexit arguments on working time don’t add up
The main workplace rights to be targeted for supporters of Leaving the EU at next month’s referendum are around working time (although protection against discrimination, fairness for agency workers and health and safety are also in the frame.) Leave campaigners claim that the Working Time Directive…Read more…
Brexit is not the answer to the new generation of free trade agreements
By Adrian Weir The cat is out of the bag – the publication last week of the LSE report on the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions within the Transatlantic Trade & Investment…Read more…