Fat cat bosses at Britain’s biggest companies enjoyed a 10 percent pay rise last year, raking in an average of £5.5m – 129 times more than the typical salaries of their employees. According to…Read more…
Are students with SEND being let down? Our members say they are
ATL recently responded to the Labour Party’s review of SEND provision in England, as part of our work on Conference resolution 43, Are SEND Students Being Let Down? We surveyed ATL members to…Read more…
Labour is becoming the new ‘nasty party’ – and it needs to stop
Chasing ideological purity is a dead end for Labour and everyone who needs a Labour government. There can be no place for witch hunts against Labour MPs, councillors and party staff by the left or…Read more…
Oil strike suspended
The following announcement was issued last night (August 12) jointly by Wood Group and the Unite and RMT Trade Unions in relation to the current dispute involving workers on the Shell facilities in…Read more…
A positive frame of mind
Mindfulness is a meditative technique that helps us cope with everyday stress
The article A positive frame of mind first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Millions axed from youth service spending, says UNISON
An estimated £387 million has been axed in just six years from youth services across the UK, says a report from UNISON published today (Friday). The report –A Future at Risk: Cuts in Youth Services–…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn nominated by UNISON Labour Link Committee
This lunchtime I attended a meeting of the UNISON Labour Link (also known as the “APF”) National Committee at our headquarters in Euston.
The meeting was to decide whether or not to make a supportive nomination for the next leader of the La…Read more…
Prentis seeks top-level Brexit meetings with government
UNISON’s general secretary wants to ensure ‘the best possible outcomes’ for members
The article Prentis seeks top-level Brexit meetings with government first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Hate crime on the rise
Efforts to tackle the spike in racist hate crime following the vote to leave the EU must be redoubled, a new TUC report has concluded. Since the June 23 vote there has been a major increase in…Read more…
An impossible job
After being pummelled by years of a twin crisis in funding and recruitment, access to NHS care is now dangerously out of reach for patients up and down the country. The Royal College of…Read more…
Save our local services: exciting new toolkit
UNISON has a long history of campaigning against unfair policies that hurt local workers and communities, from fighting for the national minimum wage to resisting cuts
The article Save our local…Read more…
May The Force Be With You
Shaun McDermott is a PCSO on the community beat. His way of relaxing with the kids involves going to a galaxy far, far away…
The article May The Force Be With You first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
‘Just the tip of the iceberg’
Almost 200 rip-off employers who broke the law by paying their staff below the minimum wage have been named and shamed by the government. A total of £466,219 was scammed by 198 companies…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn nominated for Labour leadership by UNISON Labour Link Committee
The committee decision follows discussions at regional and national level, and a consultation of UNISON members who are affiliated to the Labour party. The consultation was carried out online. UNISON…Read more…
Health staff in Luton rally against attack on sickness leave
UNISON warns that move risks staff coming to work ill to avoid triggering process that could lead to dismissal – in a trust that has one of best sick-leave records in the region
The article Health…Read more…
We need a properly funded NHS – make your voice heard
This week’s news that United Lincolnshire Hospital’s NHS Trust will be closing its A&E department in Grantham in the evenings due to staff shortages is, in the words of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, “disappointing, yet unsurprising”. The TUC and health unions, campaigners and think…Read more…
Treat workers fairly
Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary is to meet with shop stewards from the oil and gas industry, in the middle of the biggest North Sea dispute for a generation. Blaydon MP Dave Anderson will…Read more…
Support for Jeremy
Unite last night (August 10) confirmed its support for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. In a statement the union said, “Unite’s policy conference, made up of approximately 1,000…Read more…
Why the British labour movement should care about the coup in Brazil
Previously published in the Morning Star August 9th As world attention turns to Brazil for the Olympic Games, we need to shine a light on that country’s dismantling of democracy A coup is taking…Read more…
The neo-liberal reform of collective bargaining in Spain: its consequences for social dialogue
Miguel Martínez Lucio
10 August 2016
By Carlos J Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Rafael Ibáñez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; and Miguel Martínez Lucio,…Read more…