COHSE led the way amongst British trade unions in trying to dispel myths and anti gay paranoia around HiV/Aids.
COHSE guidelines were published in May 1985 when nurses with HiV were being sacked simply for having HiV and staff wer…Read more…
COHSE AIDS Guidelines May 1985
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Student Nurses Lobby Parliament – 4th May 2016
Nursing Students – People’s Assembly March Saturday 16th April 2016
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Nurses Solidarity – South Wales Steel Workers
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Nurses Day – Thora Silverthorne
UNISON “there for you” grants for School Uniforms
UNISON’s special charity for its own members “there for you” is helping low paid families to meet the cost of providing school uniforms. If your net earned (work) income is less than £18,000 per year (see below) and you have savings of less than £800 then you can get £40 per child uniform grants…Read more…
Prison reform will fail unless safety and staff retention addressed, says Justice Committee
An action plan is “urgently needed to reverse…[the]…rapid deterioration” in prison safety, concludes a new report by the House of Commons Justice Committee. Published just prior to the government’s Queen’s Speech announcement of a major overhaul of prison services, the report issues a serious…Read more…
Bus stop
Tomorrow (Tuesday May 24) hundreds of Unite bus driver members, working for First Manchester Ltd will stage a one day strike over a series of serious breaches of longstanding industrial agreements….Read more…
McDonnell: We’ll clear way for a new society
Labour ‘will be more radical than Attlee’ Luke James McDonnell: We’ll clear way for a new society THE next Labour government will be more radical than Clement Attlee’s pioneering post-war…Read more…
Academisation: lessons from further education
Those interested in how the government’s academies programme might impact the school education system in years to come should take a look at the recent history of the FE sector for some clues. Over…Read more…
EU: Where Does Decision-Making Power Lie?
An EU Referendum Issue: Where Does Decision-Making Power Lie? May Day, London At the heart of the debate about whether Britain should remain in or leave the European Union is the issue of where…Read more…
Troika-imposed neoliberalism undermines basic employment rights in Romania
23 May 2016
By Dr Aurora Trif, Lecturer in Human Resources Management, Dublin City University
In the second of our series of blogs detailing how the Troika has helped to spread the neoliberalist…Read more…
Does Steve Hilton’s ‘blue sky thinking’ give the game away on Brexit and pregnancy rights?
Today Steve Hilton, the PM’s friend and former adviser, is making the headlines for declaring his support for Britain to leave the EU. In an article in the Daily Mail he makes his case for Brexit claiming that Britain’s membership of the EU makes the country “literally ungovernable”. He complains:…Read more…
Are we making a difference for equality in your workplace?
Can you spare five minutes to help UNISON win equality in the workplace?
The article Are we making a difference for equality in your workplace? first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Human Rights vs. Bill of Rights: What’s in it for the workers?
23 May 2016
By Bob Kelly
With impeccable timing, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) held a conference on the issue of the Human Rights Act, a day after it was briefly mentioned in the…Read more…