Unite has said it will fight dozens of compulsory redundancies at Cammell Laird, the Birkenhead shipyard set to build ‘Boaty McBoatface’. Unite had been holding meetings with bosses at the…Read more…
TTIP victory
In a major victory for Unite and other campaigners, prime minister David Cameron caved in to public demands to exempt the NHS from provisions in the massive, controversial EU-US trade deal known as…Read more…
NHS deficit damaging services to patients, says UNISON
Commenting on new figures showing a deficit of £2.45bn in NHS finances, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “This is yet another set of damaging figures that show the NHS is under…Read more…
Trade Union Learning: What I’ve Learnt
Colleagues,
Just a brief(ish) post from Warwick University library as I work on my doctoral thesis. I thought I’d write up some personal notes/reflections on what I consider a trade union education pedagogy to look and feel like.
This is partly becau…Read more…
‘Death knell for key industries’
The decision by the European Parliament recently to oppose granting Market Economic Status (MES) to China is very welome. It follows extensive lobbying by Unite and our global union with the US…Read more…
Cuts threaten equalities
Unite has warned against further budget cuts and redundancies at the crisis hit Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in a letter to MP Maria Miller. The EHRC, set up as in independent…Read more…
Tax avoidance – there are few battles that matter more
Avoiding tax is morally wrong, and pulls vital funds away from public services under pressure – not just at home but around the world. Fighting against tax avoidance is imperative, but it is not a…Read more…
Why The EU Must Not Grant China Market Economy Status
The decision by the European Parliament recently to oppose granting Market Economic Status (MES) to China is very welome. It follows extensive lobbying by Unite and our global union with the US…Read more…
Newham Council AGM 2016
Yesterday evening the official Council AGM took place at the main hall of the Old Stratford Town Hall. It started with local primary school children choir and band. I believe that they played a Soviet Red Army marching song which always goes down…Read more…
Tories will try anything to shackle unions, but ultimately they will fail
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
Tories will try anything to shackle unions, but ultimately they will fail
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
Profits must pay
Unite has called on Royal Mail to recognise the ‘invaluable’ role its members have played in delivering today’s (May 19) five per cent increase in profits. Unite wants bosses to make an…Read more…
CalMac victory
Unite has welcomed today’s (May 19) decision to award the western isles ferry services contract to CalMac as a victory for the workforce and a “magnificent public service.” The new contract,…Read more…
Shape your own workplace future
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched today (May 19) a new initiative that asks people to help create a vision for what they believe ideal workplaces of the future should be. The initiative,…Read more…
UNISON welcomes HSE report on needlesticks
Report finds 83% of organisations failing to comply with sharps regulations
The article UNISON welcomes HSE report on needlesticks first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
No pain, no gain?
The shocking sexism of the last century dramatized in the popular television show Mad Men may not be such a thing of the past after all. Just ask receptionist Nicola Thorp, who last week was…Read more…
Building workplaces fit for the future
Jeremy Corbyn has rightly identified the issues that we’re fighting to eliminate each and every day – massive wage disparity between those at the top and the bottom, poverty pay and insecure work….Read more…
Strike for fair pay
Members of Unite working at Homes and Communities Association (HCA) are striking for fair pay and proper pay negotiations today (May 19). Unite’s 145 members at two locations began a 24 hour…Read more…
British people on corruption in their own country: it’s far from squeaky clean
19 May 2016
By David Whyte and David Ellis, University of Liverpool
On the eve of a major international anti-corruption summit hosted by the British government, the prime minister, David Cameron,…Read more…
Job vacancies plummet
Job vacancies have plummeted by 12 per cent since the start of the year, with a nine per cent drop in April alone, a report from the jobs website Indeed has found. Indeed blamed the looming EU…Read more…