Experiences range from disabled parking spaces being blocked to being denied access to a bus because drivers won’t insist buggies are folded up
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Experiences range from disabled parking spaces being blocked to being denied access to a bus because drivers won’t insist buggies are folded up
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Political challenges lie ahead from a government still wedded to ‘failed austerity’ policies, vice president warns disabled members’ conference
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Brighton conference opens with delegates debating a raft of motions that reveal how members face bullying and harassment in many guises
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The union is gearing up for elections to its Executive Council (EC), which is effectively the ruling body of the union between policy and rules conferences.
The Unite web site has a page about the forthcoming elections. This includes a helpful new boo…Read more…
Yesterday morning I missed the very beginning of the canvass session in support of Yvonne Maxwell, who is standing as the Labour candidate for Hackney Council in a by election in Hoxton West.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn MP turned up (by bike) to …Read more…
Last week was European Health and Safety week. This is a time to think about work related safety matters.
Early this month I was rang by the radio programme “BBC 5 Live investigates”. They asked if I was available to be interviewed by the pr…Read more…
Britain’s largest union, Unite said it would be seeking similar government assurances for the UK’s car industry and manufacturing sector which may have been made to Nissan to cover the potential…Read more…
This is the official GMB press release: Similar contracts masquerading as bogus self employment will all be reviewed says GMB GMB, the union for professional drivers, has won their case against Uber…Read more…
This week, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released figures on the financial cost of pregnancy discrimination. For women who lose their jobs, the cost is between £47 million and £113 million, just in the first year. Losses flowing from long term impacts on their career have not…Read more…
Personally, I struggle with mornings. To me, the arrival of daylight savings time and an extra hour in bed is the highlight of autumn, a season that contains my birthday. As you look forward to…Read more…
This is a great “slow action” picture from last nights packed West Ham Labour AGM (part 2). Our MP Lyn Brown is giving her Parliamentary report and answering questions.
We ran out of time at our first AGM to conclude all business so had to resum…Read more…
Either give your drivers proper employment rights, or give them the freedoms of genuinely self-employed businesses.Read more…
Unite announced it would be setting up a special ‘bogus self-employment’ unit to pursue employers who were shamelessly dodging their responsibilities by classifying workers as self-employed. …Read more…
I am a trade unionist, lesbian and Christian. For me the recent ruling on the Asher’s bakery had a particular resonance. The vote on same sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland was a sea change in…Read more…
Unite strongly condemned Tuesday evening’s (October 25) detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir Ms Gültan Kışanak and Mr Fırat Anlı and the subsequent police attacks on civilians who were protesting…Read more…
The gender pay gap has remained stubbornly high, as new figures released this week show that it stands nationally at 9.4 per cent, just barely below last year’s 9.6 per cent. At one company,…Read more…
In preparation for action starting on Monday, Unite has produced an updated Q&A about the Manchester dispute aimed at Fujitsu…Read more…
Struggling NHS patient services are under threat from stealth reforms that could see more closures and relocations of local hospitals and A&E departments, local councils have revealed. The…Read more…
For too many young working people today trade unions, and the principle of collective bargaining that underpins the movement, seem like a relic of a distant past – despite unionised workplaces…Read more…
Please see the following leaflet to Fujitsu Employees outside Manchester, explaining the Manchester dispute in the context of job security…Read more…