From a Unite Community member’s real-life ‘Daniel Blake’ benefit sanctions experience: “I asked how I was supposed to survive for the week with no money and having to live on…Read more…
‘Me versus the world’
With Ken Loach’s award-winning film I, Daniel Blake exposing the cruel reality of life those caught up in Britain’s brutal benefits’ system, we asked people to tell us what it’s like to be at the…Read more…
‘Subtle blacklisting’
The failure of a construction company to recognise the elected officials of workers on Europe’s largest rail infrastructure project in central London has been branded ‘a subtle form of…Read more…
Unsafe and under-staffed
Mental health nurse (MHN) numbers have dropped by almost a sixth since the Tories took power in 2010 new figures show, despite continued government promises to improve ailing mental health services….Read more…
The Price of Fashion
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh shocked the world. Since then, UNISON has helped the garment workers fight for their rights
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‘Talk to the unions’, UNISON urges colleges in England
Union calls for full engagement with workforce following government guidance on area reviews and their implementation
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Great News For Construction Workers As UCATT Vote To Join Unite
Construction workers in the UK will now have one powerful union voice on their side fighting for them from 1 January 2017, as members of the construction union Ucatt voted by 85.5 per cent to merge…Read more…
Caught at a crossroads: it’s time to build an alternative to neoliberalism
John Macdonnell Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative party conference in early October seemed to mark a clear turn in economic policy. It was condemned by the right-wing Institute of Economic…Read more…
Why I am Voting NO for a Democratic Choice: Newham Labour Mayor candidate selection process 2018
Within the next week or so thousands of Labour Party members who live in the London Borough of Newham will be invited to local meetings to vote by secret ballot on the future of the Newham Labour Mayor candidate for the 2018 election. This process is known as a “trigger ballot” (or “affirmative…Read more…
Thai Supreme Court win for migrant rights defender Andy Hall doesn’t end legal fight
It’s great news that, overnight, Thailand’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Natural Fruit Company against Andy Hall, the British born migrant and workers’ rights defender…Read more…
Waging war against bogus self-employment
Addressing the hollowing out of transportation is critical…Read more…
‘Historic moment’
Today (November 2) Unite and Ucatt announced the two unions’ merger. “This is a historic moment for the construction industry and the men and women who work in it. Bad bosses and…Read more…
Another world was possible – for workers: The Georgian Experiment, 1918-1921
The following is the text of a speech I delivered at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia in Tbilisi on Wednesday, 2 November 2016. Thank you to Irakli Petriashvili and the Georgian Trade…Read more…
Reinvigorate local democracy to increase voter engagement
The turnout in local government elections has been declining for a number of years. That’s unlikely to change until we reinvigorate local democracy.
Today, I was giving evidence to the Scottish…Read more…
NHS: ‘Disgraceful accounting’
The NHS faces mounting pressure as never before — a fact made startlingly clear in a recent poll of 99 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) which found that nearly half of the NHS authorities intend…Read more…
Pallet racking jobs at risk
Unite is holding crunch talks with the management of Link 51 in Telford tomorrow (November 3) to mitigate the 69 job losses announced in the pallet racking business. Link 51, part of…Read more…
Health and Safety Update 2016: London
02 November 2016
By Andrew Moretta, World of Work PhD student, The University of Liverpool
Andrew Moretta, a delegate at the Institute of Employment Rights’ Health and Safety Update 2016…Read more…
Living Wage changes lives
For thousands of workers up and down the country, the Living Wage – not the government’s bogus rebranding but the ‘real’ Living Wage – has changed lives to the tune of thousands a year. For…Read more…
Strike for justice
Strike action could be on the cards at a major cereal manufacturer in Wiltshire after a manufacturing operative was sacked unfairly. Justin Beckett, a Unite rep at Cereal Partners in…Read more…
“They are not just heroes within our union – they’re heroes to their communities too”
I’m proud of the job people who work in the health service do 24 hours a day, seven days a week. UNISON will always fight their corner against this government – by any means possible.
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