If you are looking for relentlessly positive and upbeat assessments of all aspects of trade union organisation you may be in the wrong place. This blog has been a critical voice now for more than a decade.
It is hardly a novelty for me to suggest that …Read more…
Back to work help
Unite is teaming up with employers and the employment charity, Tomorrow’s People in the South West to hold its first ever jobs and training open day in Bristol tomorrow (November 9). The event…Read more…
Priced out of justice
The coalition government’s legacy of injustice was made startlingly clear last week when new TUC figures revealed that the number of employment tribunal claims has plummeted after fees were…Read more…
BMW strike: one step closer
Production of the iconic Mini and prestigious Rolls-Royce motor car could be disrupted in the coming months after BMW group car workers massively backed industrial action in a consultative ballot…Read more…
Saving for self-reliance in Cambodia: Credit unions helping garment workers to organise
There is no minimum wage in Cambodia, despite the Labor Law requiring one to be set in the private sector through sub-decree. More than 10 years after the law was passed, this has not been done. The…Read more…
Len McCluskey: the free movement of labour is a class question
08 November 2016
By Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE
At the 2016 conference of think tank Class – Britain at a Crossroads – General Secretary of UNITE Len McCluskey gave a speech…Read more…
Solidarity with the Durham teaching assistants
Solidarity to the Durham teaching assistants as they start today their first two day strike. This is in opposition to an attempt to drive down pay using the excuse of “equal pay” to impose cuts on a predominantly low paid female workforce.
The newsis that their action is effective.
Let’s hope they…Read more…
Cereal production at risk
Production of some of the nation’s favourite breakfast cereals could be hit by possible industrial action, unless a union rep working for Cereal Partners in Trowbridge, Wiltshire with an…Read more…
European steel protest
Steelworkers from Unite working for Tata Steel UK and British Steel will be joining thousands of fellow steelworkers from across Europe to march through Brussels tomorrow (November 9) to demand…Read more…
Equality watchdog on strike
Members of Unite working for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be taking part in the first of two one-day strikes tomorrow (November 9), after talks over the implementation of…Read more…
Defending our EU members
UNISON members who are EU citizens gathered to share their experiences since June’s referendum and their concerns about what happens next
The article Defending our EU members first appeared on the…Read more…
Brexit cannot be an excuse to trash our rights at work
Workplace rights was at the heart of UNISON’s campaign to keep Britain in the EU. We may have lost that argument, but our concerns remain. Before the referendum UNISON members told us that rights at…Read more…
Safeguards and strong unions
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey’s spoke at the CLASS conference in London, on November 5. Unite is proud of the part it played in establishing the movement’s very own think-tank…Read more…
When Voting NO means YES to fairness,choice and democracy: Newham Labour Mayor Selection – First Reason
I have blogged about the process and how important the position of a Directly Elected Mayor or so called Executive Mayor is here and also about a website triggerdemocracy.com that argues that there should be an open selection process for the next …Read more…
The return of the squeeze?
This is the latest in our regular round-up of the state of the economy. Last month my colleague Silkie Cragg discussed the contradictory nature of data regarding the state of the economy as we entered Quarter 4 of 2016. This month the picture seems to …Read more…
Fujitsu blog moving
We are in the process of moving to better software for this site. For the moment the most recent posts…Read more…
Trump and Clinton: Members of self-serving criminal syndicates.
Campaign Serves to Eliminate Political Parties and Undermine Fight for People’s Empowerment As the elections enter their final week, many in the polity are angrier now than they were at the…Read more…
Rising inequality helps explain Trump and Brexit
While I hope that the United States will not elect Trump to be their President tomorrow, I was
fascinated to read the statement below at a recent Newham Council Investment and Accounts committee.
“Even if Trump loses, the anti-Establishment, anti-tra…Read more…
Three quarters of the people hit by the Benefit Cap are children. Today, things got worse
Today, the government took another step to increase the number of children in poverty. They have done this by cutting the Benefit Cap, first introduced by the Coalition government. Outside London, the number of people in need whose benefits are cut is …Read more…
National hardship fund for Durham dispute
UNISON has today (Monday) authorised a national hardship fund to ensure that no teaching assistants on strike in Durham suffer financial hardship. The fund, made up of an initial £150,000 will be…Read more…