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London UNISON Housing Association Branch AGM 2017: Speaker Tom Copley AM at the UNISON Head Office

Mar 31, 2017By John's Labour blog

Picture collage from our branch AGM which took place last week at the UNISON Centre with keynote speaker, London Assembly Member, Tom Copley.

The AGM was split into 2 meetings to aid participation by members. A part 1 lunch time session then a Part 2 …Read more…

Mar 31, 2017John's Labour blog

Len McCluskey: Manufacturing Matters

Mar 31, 2017By Power In A Union
Mar 31, 2017Power In A Union

Another corporate attack is looming

Mar 31, 2017By Institute of Employment Rights Blog

31 March 2017
By Adrian Weir, Assistant Chief of Staff, Unite

In this article, originally published in the Morning Star, Adrian Weir details the risks to the UK’s workforce of international…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Institute of Employment Rights Blog

BMW workers to strike

Mar 31, 2017By Rtuc's Blog

BMW workers in Britain have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike  over pensions, Unite has announced. Workers plan to strike over plans to close their final salary pension scheme. BMW workers could…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Rtuc's Blog

‘Biggest threat’ to UK auto boom

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

Brexit is the “biggest threat in a generation” to the UK’s booming car industry, auto manufacturers have warned.   Car makers said yesterday that the £72bn-a-year industry, which exports more…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

Sub-standard apprenticeships threat

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

Unite is warning the introduction of the new apprenticeship levy could be taken off course and lead to a sharp rise in sub-standard apprenticeships.   Unite issued their warning after an…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

‘Extraordinary vote in favour’

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

BMW workers making engines and the iconic Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars have overwhelmingly backed industrial action over plans to close their final salary pension scheme the country’s largest union…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

NHS agency staff back down

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31).   The union, which has 100,000 members in the…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

The NHS’ lost £billion?

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

Much was made by the government about the £2bn uplift it had given the NHS in for 2015/2016 for frontline services. But where did all that money go?   Nearly £1bn – almost half – went into the…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

UNISON welcomes U-turn on NHS agency work ban

Mar 31, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

NHS England has paused plans to ban health service employees from picking up extra work with agencies, following a campaign by UNISON. In a letter to UNISON head of health Christina McAnea, chief…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Dave Prentis blog

A life without limits

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

They call autism the hidden disability and for some it is even hidden from themselves.   Unite workplace rep Ceri Wright, from Wales, was one of those people. The 36-year-old began to suspect…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

Nowhere slowly: failures on private debt follow failures on public debt

Mar 31, 2017By Touchstone blog

Today’s figures confirmed what we already knew: that economic growth in 2016 was entirely reliant on the consumer. We also know that workers are in the middle of an unprecedented decline in real wages (at least since Victorian times). So the inevitable result is lower saving and increased growth in…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Touchstone blog

Unite says no to nurse cuts

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

Standing in support of families with babies and young children, the local York community joined Unite members in a demonstration yesterday (March 30) against proposals by the city council to axe…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

‘Still the aliens’

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

For those on the spectrum, every day is a guessing day – and with it the terrifying thought that something needing logic will happen. It is at this point, when the day begins to fall in on itself and…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

BMW: Unite Munich protest

Mar 31, 2017By UNITElive

BMW workers took their fight to protect their pensions all the way to the car maker’s headquarters in Munich on Wednesday (March 29) days before their ballot for industrial action closes today…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017UNITElive

Bob Crow – internationalist and true union leader

Mar 31, 2017By USIlive

Remembering Bob Crow, a fighter for workers everywhere…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017USIlive

Government should listen to MPs on social care, says UNISON

Mar 31, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

A new ‘bill of rights’ recommended today (Friday) by MPs for care workers to end low pay and high job turnover rates has been welcomed by UNISON. This key reform has been proposed by the Communities…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Dave Prentis blog

International Transgender Day of Visibility

Mar 31, 2017By Stronger Unions

March 31st is the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. In recent years, even a casual observer may feel that transgender people are already very visible, and query the need for it to…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Stronger Unions

Five-year plans must have proper funding to succeed, says UNISON

Mar 31, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

Commenting on the publication of NHS England’s update on its five-year plan for the NHS, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “The health service consistently delivers for patients – often in…Read more…

Mar 31, 2017Dave Prentis blog

Government cuts threaten Newham Free School Meals programme: They cannot afford to pay 60% of the cost

Mar 30, 2017By John's Labour blog

This letter below was sent to many primary school parents today in Newham by the union for Head Teachers. Due to Government cuts and Newham Council changes in the way they charge for meals, many primary schools have decided that they cannot pay 60% of…Read more…

Mar 30, 2017John's Labour blog
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