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Fujitsu Manchester appeal for support

Sep 30, 2016By Unite Fujitsu News

Unite members from Fujitsu will be joining the People’s Assembly demonstration in Birmingham on Sunday, where they will be distributing…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016Unite Fujitsu News

Workplace dementia – time for action

Sep 30, 2016By Dave Watson

More than 40,000 people under the age of 65 have been diagnosed with dementia in the UK, 3,200 of those in Scotland. It is estimated that 18% of them continue to work after a diagnosis and therefore…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016Dave Watson

Is the decline of manufacturing really ‘natural evolution’?

Sep 30, 2016By Touchstone blog

According to conventional wisdom, industrial trends follow a natural evolution from agriculture to manufacturing and finally to services. Fascinating long-run data from the ONS (based on employment information from census records since the mid-C19) sug…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016Touchstone blog

easyJet: Staff breast feeding victory

Sep 30, 2016By UNITElive

Expectant mothers and mothers of young children have never had it worse in the workplace – a wide-ranging Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) study published earlier this year found that the…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016UNITElive

No way to treat workers

Sep 30, 2016By UNITElive

Irish drinks giant C&C has been accused of behaving with ‘cavalier contempt’ towards its Shepton Mallet Cider Mill workforce, as confusion swirls about the employment prospects of the remaining…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016UNITElive

Decent pay rise call

Sep 30, 2016By UNITElive

Chancellor Philip Hammond should use the autumn statement to signal a massive cash injection into the crisis-hit NHS, allowing the independent Pay Review Body to help restore the pay of a…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016UNITElive

Labour and Tory policies– oceans apart

Sep 30, 2016By UNITElive

Liverpool looked glorious as we departed Labour’s conference yesterday afternoon (Wednesday September 28). The summer’s hullabaloo was setting as a new, rosy red optimistic spirit descended upon the…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016UNITElive

100 days after the #Brexit vote & we’re still in the dark on workers’ rights

Sep 30, 2016By Touchstone blog

It’s been 100 days since Britain voted to leave the EU, and still we’re no clearer about what Brexit means. In particular, despite Remain and Leave voters agreeing that workers’ rights should be maintained, the Prime Minister has failed to commit to that. The TUC is calling today…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016Touchstone blog

NHS needs £280m or the government will be breaking minimum wage laws

Sep 30, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

29 September 2016 Embargo: 00.01hrs Friday 30 September 2016 The government will need to inject £280m into the NHS by the end of the decade, or ministers will find themselves in breach of their own…Read more…

Sep 30, 2016Dave Prentis blog

“Education not segregation” – West Ham Labour campaign day

Sep 29, 2016By John's Labour blog

No New Grammars day of action – 11am this Saturday, Forest Gate station

Hello – it’s nice to be back after our enforced break over the summer. At at the request of our old new leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, we’ll be kic…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016John's Labour blog

‘No-go area’ for women

Sep 29, 2016By UNITElive

The higher up the income ladder you are in the UK, the less likely it is that you’re a woman. This was the conclusion of a new report by the London School of Economics out this week (September 26)…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016UNITElive

Ripoff bosses

Sep 29, 2016By UNITElive

Just three companies have been prosecuted for paying below the minimum wage in the past two and a half years, despite the government naming and shaming 700.   Since February 2014 HM Revenue and…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016UNITElive

UNISON welcomes campaign day on selective schools

Sep 29, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

Union warns that Theresa May’s plans ‘risk most of our children being left behind in schools with fewer of the best teachers and potentially fewer resources’

The article UNISON welcomes campaign day…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016Dave Prentis blog

Transparency call

Sep 29, 2016By UNITElive

Serious questions need to be asked about the reasons for the closure of General Electric Power Conversion plant in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire with the loss of about 240 jobs, Unite said yesterday…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016UNITElive

Norway Oil Workers On Strike

Sep 29, 2016By Power In A Union

350 oil workers all members of the Industri Energi union, are on strike after wage talks broke down with the Norwegian Oil Industry Association. “We are on strike because the Norwegian Oil Industry…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016Power In A Union

Who provides your occupational health?

Sep 29, 2016By Stronger Unions

A recent TUC survey showed that 92% of workplaces with union health and safety representatives have some form of occupational health provision. This is well above the national average, where it is…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016Stronger Unions

Early Reflections on Labour Conference 2016

Sep 29, 2016By Power In A Union

The portents were not good a few weeks ago – the conference was expected to expose a giant chasm and split the party; Ian McNichol was for the chop; they were struggling to find a new security…Read more…

Sep 29, 2016Power In A Union

‘United we can shape the future’

Sep 28, 2016By UNITElive

As the Labour Party Conference ended today (September 28), Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn outlined the party’s plan to offer shared prosperity to all in a forward-looking programme which he dubbed…Read more…

Sep 28, 2016UNITElive

IMF warn of global deflation

Sep 28, 2016By Touchstone blog

The precarious condition of the global economy is back in the spotlight. Last week the OECD issued their interim economic outlook, headed: “global growth warning: weak trade, financial distortions’. This week it is the turn of the IMF, who are leading on the threat of global deflation and the…Read more…

Sep 28, 2016Touchstone blog

Perils of social media. Chapter Forty Seven

Sep 28, 2016By Jon's union blog

Can I just point out that someone is reading this blog and then reporting what I post to UNISON, thereby getting me into further trouble?

Honestly, I thought I could rely upon the regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris anarcho-Trotskyist) not to …Read more…

Sep 28, 2016Jon's union blog
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