Scotland needs a quality home care service to meet the growing demand and also ensures that patients who shouldn’t be in hospital are cared for at home. While there is a welcome commitment to address…Read more…
Byron Hamburgers: When employers fail to do right by migrant employees
16 August 2016
By Don Flynn, Director of the Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN)
What else could Byron’s have done? The social media world was awash with attempted defences of the hamburger chain after…Read more…
Working at Sports Direct hurts your health as well as your pay packet
This week we’ve had proof that working at Sports Direct is bad for your pay packet, after the union Unite won a million pounds in back pay for workers who had received less than the legal minimum…Read more…
Let EU citizens stay – new inquiry launched
I’ve joined a panel set up today by centre-left think tank British Future to look at one of the knottiest problems caused by the Brexit vote in June – what to do when we leave about the EU citizens who are already living and working in the UK. The TUC and CBI have jointly…Read more…
TUC says “Cool it!” as workers suffer in summer heat
A month or so ago, when there was a hot spell and the thermometer went over 30c the TUC called for employers to take action to help workers cope with it by supplying fans, relaxing dress codes and…Read more…
Unions remember workers who died for the Rio Olympics
Eleven dead and no word of comfort or sympathy from the IOC…Read more…
Sweet victory
An agreement covering 7,600 UK employees of food and drink giant Nestlé has been agreed with the Unite and GMB trade unions. The agreement (which is subject to trustee approval) will safeguard…Read more…
Magnox contracts ‘favouritism’
Unite has called on the government to investigate the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), after a high court ruled it used favouritism to award a £8.4bn private sector contract – which has…Read more…
Unite pay justice result
Sports Direct workers marked a significant milestone in their journey to justice today (August 15) after thousands of workers at Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire are set to secure …Read more…
Housing crisis continues
The UK’s housing crisis continues to intensify as new figures show councils will not be able to afford to replace housing sold off in the Right to Buy scheme and spark calls for urgent reform. …Read more…
‘Free to exploit at will’
When Theresa May gave a speech after it was announced she would become the UK’s next prime minister, she pledged that the Tory party will put itself “completely, absolutely, unequivocally” at the…Read more…
ODPs to come under the allied health professions umbrella
Change from April 2017 likely to mean ‘better representation during workforce planning activities and improved access to continuing professional development ‘
The article ODPs to come under the…Read more…
How will the new housing act affect you and your family?
UNISON has published a new briefing on the 2016 Housing and Planning Act (England)
The article How will the new housing act affect you and your family? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Triathlon Training 2016: Five weeks to go
Thurs 11 Aug Ran to Olympic pool E20 32 minsMax Pace 2.7 2.61 milesPace 12.5 Slow but steady 4.8 mph Early Morning Swim lesson Aquatic Centre 45 mins 25m Training pool Mostly backstroke, but did Butterfly legs work & tumble turns…Read more…
Sports Direct AGM: Vote FOR resolution 19
Check out this post by Tom P (see below). If you really think that Sports Direct is acting in a
disgusting and inhumane way to its workforce then contact your pension or insurance provider and ask them to make sure their fund managers vote …Read more…
We must support young people and the services they rely on
Youth workers are tireless in the support they provide to young people, for example helping them find work and getting more education. In the months and years ahead, it’s time we as a country showed…Read more…
Ecuador’s Popular Unity backs teachers’ union
Marxist-Leninists versus Rafael Correa in a political showdownRead more…
‘Misleading claims’ put to rest
Unite, which represents bus drivers in Weymouth and Bridport, has offered to go to arbitration in a bid to solve the ‘poverty pay’ dispute. The union said that it contacted the conciliation…Read more…
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL – labour movement and James Connolly
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Stop the death threats to Colombian trade unionists now!
I wrote with some optimism a few days ago about Colombia’s impending peace deal that would seek ratification in a referendum in September. This historic cease-fire agreement was signed on 23 June by…Read more…