Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth launches triple promise and warns: ‘The future of the NHS is at stake in this election’
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Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth launches triple promise and warns: ‘The future of the NHS is at stake in this election’
The article Better pay, safer staffing and fully funded training…Read more…
UNISON and fellow further education unions ask for ‘inflation plus’ pay rises from September
The article Pay claims submitted on behalf of English and Welsh college workers first appeared on the…Read more…
In part 3 of UNITElive’s International Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite shop steward Neal Hodkinson about his fight against asbestos. While accidents in the…Read more…
MPs aren’t the only ones feeling insecure in their jobs right now. If nothing changes, by the 2022 election hundreds of thousands more Brits could be stuck in insecure work, being treated like…Read more…
New analysis by the TUC shows that if current trends continue, 290,000 more people could be trapped in insecure work by 2022. The figures show that by the start of 2022, 3.5 million people could be in insecure work such as zero-hours contracts, tempora…Read more…
Kezia Dugdale MSPLeader of the Scottish Labour Party120th STUC Annual Congress
Let me begin by paying tribute to the STUC, to Helen and to Grahame Smith, your General Secretary.
The STUC has…Read more…
Some hospitals are charging NHS staff, including low-waged nurses and porters, ‘extortionate’ fees of nearly £100 a month to park, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The Royal Free London NHS Foundation…Read more…
Responding to Labour’s NHS election pledge, to be announced by shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth tomorrow (Wednesday) in Liverpool -at UNISON’s annual health conference – UNISON general…Read more…
Photo from last night’s planning and action meeting of the Newham key workers facing massive rent rises by the Charitable Landlord, One Housing Group. The tenants are living in housing blocks that were handed over to the Housing Association in 1997 by …Read more…
Unite and the GMB and have slammed Nestle for proposing 300 job losses as it moves production of the iconic Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to Poland. The confectionary giant is making the…Read more…
–> Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD) have announced another stellar line-up for the sixth annual Great May Day cabaret celebrating International Workers’ Day (May Day). This annual event at…Read more…
Pension proposals by workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – to break the logjam in their long-running pensions’ dispute have been ignored, Unite said today (April 25)….Read more…
Friends and families who have lost loved ones to workplace fatalities are having to wait an agonising 3 years 4 months to secure justice , according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request made by…Read more…
As families already struggling under a generation of austerity are doubly hit by the introduction of Universal Credit, food bank use has skyrocketed and now stands at an all-time high. The…Read more…
Union will seek to use Agenda for Change to protect apprentice pay and conditions
The article NHS employers tempted to view apprentices as ‘cheap labour’, warns UNISON first appeared on…Read more…
UNISON’s health conference approves a renewed campaign strategy against the government’s 1% pay cap
The article Health members look to ballot box and beyond to win battle over pay first appeared on…Read more…
The Bus Services Bill is due to complete its passage through parliament this week, because of the election it will be agreed through wash up. It was initially due to enter Ping Pong on April 26 following its third reading in the Commons. The snap election called last week means that the bill has…Read more…
Annette Drylie, GMB Scotland
Chair, STUC Women’s Committee120th STUC Annual Congress
Congress, it is my honour to address you as Chair of the STUC Women’s Committee. I would like to begin…Read more…
As the general election campaign kicks off, my newsfeed is full of stories about alliances, rather than the policy issues that matter.
The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was quick off the mark,…Read more…
In part 2 of our series in the run-up to International Workers’ Memorial Day on Friday (April 28), UNITElive hears from Andy Wilson, Unite senior shop steward at East Ayrshire, who recounts…Read more…