Mugwena Maluleke reports on Bridge International Academies, a billionaire-funded company running substandard for-profit schools all across Africa and Asia Bridge International Academies (BIA) is an…Read more…
How to avoid being Fujitsu Voice-less
The company plans to terminate Fujitsu Voice in January, cutting employees’ rights in relation to redundancy, information and consultation. Click…Read more…
Teaching Assistants deserve better than being pushed into poverty by a Labour council
We’ll continue to fight for and alongside striking staff in Derby to win them the pay deal they deserve. And I want to see Durham teaching assistants voting for strike action too, so we can show…Read more…
Canada’s example: Proportional Representation is only tinkering.
Trudeau Government’s Electoral Reform Electoral Reform in the Age of the Cartel Party System The reforms to the electoral law the Trudeau government plans to put forward will not improve…Read more…
“Education not Segregation” – West Ham Labour Party Street Stall: Barking Rd, 11.30am, Saturday 8 October
“Despite the rain we had a great turnout last week – so we’d thought we’d do it again.
Please join local members at a street stall on Saturday. And some of us will also knock on doors of nearby homes to talk to voters there too. Don’t worry if you’v…Read more…
Free Trade: Winners and Losers
The collapse of the US-EU trade negotiations known as TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) seems — for the time being, at least — like a victory for the people. That at any rate…Read more…
Theresa May is not a foolish politician. She knows exactly what she is doing
Politics is not an exercise in wish fulfilment. Actions are what matters. Poverty can’t be willed into extinction merely by asking for it. Nor fairness introduced to the economy through platitudes….Read more…
Record investment or NHS funding crisis? The stats behind Theresa May’s spending boast
“Let us take this opportunity to show that we, the Conservative Party, truly are the party of the workers. The party of the public servants. The party of the NHS. Because we believe in public service. We believe in investing in and supporting the institutions that make our country great” Thus spoke…Read more…
Thinking globally about trade union density
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Seat at the table
Theresa May’s pledge to install worker representatives on company boards could be law “within a year”, according to a new TUC report. The commitment, made during the prime minister’s summer…Read more…
And the con goes on…
Unite warned of a continuing con trick as it responded to prime minister Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party conference today (Wednesday October 5). Responding to May’s first…Read more…
Poor odds for workers
Unite will be protesting outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Gloucester and Southampton on Friday (October 7), as part…Read more…
FE consultation on employer’s offer now open
Members in further education have until 4 November to respond to the consultation on the employer’s ‘first and final’ pay offer
The article FE consultation on employer’s offer now open first…Read more…
All Aboard Making worker representation on company boards a reality
Speaking today at the Conservative Party Conference, the Prime Minister repeated her commitment to introduce worker representation on company boards. The TUC has just published a new report All Aboard that sets out proposals for making this a reality, …Read more…
Bradford mental health workers strike over imposed shifts
Company fails to negotiate over plans for ‘unfair’ work pattern which could see transferred UNISON members on call for 14 hours a day
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Still time to talk plea
About 150 workers at a chemical factory in East Lancashire will take industrial action in a dispute over imposed changes to their terms and conditions. The Unite members including manual…Read more…
Workers’ rights and Brexit: holding the PM to her pledges
Last Friday, I reiterated our key demand of the Government over Brexit: workers must not pay the price for the decision to leave. TUC opinion polling after the referendum showed that whatever people voted for on 23 June, it wasn’t to lose precious rights at work. The TUC and unions – as…Read more…
A life less ordinary
Women in prisons, suicide and domestic violence. Just a few of the issues Margaret McKee works on
The article A life less ordinary first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Why more carrot and less stick can help us to ‘Power Ahead’
The TUC recently published a new policy document, ‘Powering Ahead: How UK industry can match Europe’s environmental leaders’. This document sets out a path to a sustainable industrial strategy, in which ‘sustainable’ describes the economic, social and environmental challenges facing companies,…Read more…
Breast cancer, my union and me
Liz Potter was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in the summer of 2013 at the age of 49.
The article Breast cancer, my union and me first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…