Today and Wednesday, the Article 50 Brexit bill – known formally as the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2016-17 – will get its committee stage in the House of Lords. This is the stage where most of the voting will take place on specific amendments (although there may be…Read more…
Local News Matters! Bristol’s newsgatherers get together
BRISTOL NUJ brings the city’s major and not-so-major newsgatherers together on March 24 for Local News Matters – part of the union’s national campaign to emphasise the importance of a…Read more…
Undermined
Undermined is a one man show told through Dale’s point of view and his journey throughout the year of the miners’ strike, his community and the clash with the police. Written and performed by…Read more…
Blog: If the government wants to tackle low pay, glossy adverts aren’t the answer
If the government wants to spend money on tackling low pay, there are better alternatives – like real legal enforcement of the minimum wage to penalise unscrupulous employers and introducing a living…Read more…
Build the Movement to Safeguard the Future of the NHS!
Health Campaigns Together March 4 Demonstration and Rally It’s Our NHS: Build the Movement to Safeguard the Future of the NHS! On Saturday March 4, thousands of people from community health…Read more…
Decent work call
Unite members took their fight for decent work in hospitality including fair tips and union rights to Malmaison hotels in London and Leeds this Sunday (February 26) as the hotel chain’s big wedding…Read more…
Defending UK car jobs
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, will address representatives from the three Vauxhall plants today (February 27) on Unite’s fight to defend thousands of UK car industry jobs. McCluskey…Read more…
UK 103rd out of 112 in global ranking for real wage growth since the crisis
Over 2008 to 2015, UK real wages fell by 1% a year. This puts the UK 103rd out of 112 countries for wage growth over the post-crisis period, on the basis of International Labour Organisation figures. The average wage growth across all countries was +2.3% a year and the median +1.6%. There were…Read more…
Government needs to get tougher with the minimum wage cheats, says UNISON
Commenting today (Monday) on the government’s new advertising campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage among low-paid workers, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The minimum…Read more…
Can we have a national DB pension scheme?
My latest article for Professional Pensions. “John Gray says we need to do all we can to preserve defined benefit pension provision in the UK
Those of us who live in the real pension world know it is true but many are in denial. For entirely understand…Read more…
BMW Workers Act to Fight for their Pensions:
To retire in dignity is a right of every working person, yet car giant BMW, which owns Mini and Rolls-Royce, would like to deprive its workforce of that right by eliminating one of the few remaining…Read more…
TUC: Workers in the UK put in £33.6 billion worth of unpaid overtime a year
– UK workers put in a total of 2.1 billion unpaid hours in 2016 – Londoners do the most unpaid overtime – Working time protections are at risk from Brexit, says TUC UK workers gave…Read more…
Brexit priorities: rights, living standards and jobs
Brexit is the defining issue of British politics. Our over-riding concern is to ensure that working people don’t pay the price for Brexit, and we are making progress. But there is a lot more to do to protect people’s rights at work, and we also need to tackle the impact on living…Read more…
Branch
The Branch has given the supporting nomination to John David for the Company Council Reps (Guards Grades Inner).
With friends like these…
As someone who is standing aside from UNISON positions with the intention of becoming more active in the Labour Party (of which I have been a member since 1980) I suppose I should be particularly interested in the advice which the General Secretary of …Read more…
Be a councillor: West Ham Womens Forum AGM 6.3.17
NEW DATE ALERT!!We’ve been struggling to find a suitable/affordable venue for our training + I now have to stay in the Middle East a bit longer for work 🙁 / :-)We’re still super keen for this training to happen as soon as possible so holding the trai…Read more…
The Battle Of Grangemouth by Mark Lyon
‘The Battle Of Grangemouth – A Workers Story’ by Mark Lyon This book tells the story of the industrial dispute at Grangemouth in 2013, when the owner threatened to close a large…Read more…
20 years of defending the safety critical role of the guard
The current struggle in defence of the safety critical role of the guard is not a new one. The threat to eradicate this role began in 1997. Although the media has presented the issue as one of who will open the train doors, it is about who controls the train. In the event of a […]Read more…
£33.6bn of unpaid overtime: Free work is costing us a lot
5.3 million employees worked a grand total of 2.1 billion hours of unpaid overtime last year, putting in an average of 7.7 extra hours each week. If they had been paid for all their free work, on average they would have each received an extra £6,301. Try out the TUC’s unpaid overtime calculator…Read more…
Stop bank closure call
The 72 per cent taxpayer-owned bank RBS – which benefited from a £45bn bailout after the financial crisis – today (February 24) reported its ninth consecutive year of losses, as it struggles to pay…Read more…