Apprentices working in public services are set to get a fairer deal under a charter to be launched later today (Wednesday) by UNISON. Being paid the rate for the job, high quality training and a…Read more…
Conference applauds winners of young members’ organising award
Scottish young members win organising award for work against bullying
The article Conference applauds winners of young members’ organising award first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Breakthrough for teaching assistants in Durham, says UNISON
UNISON has today (Wednesday) welcomed Durham County Council’s decision to change its plans to dismiss and rehire several thousand teaching assistants in the North East. After months of negotiations…Read more…
Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Dear Colleagues,
I have long admired the writing/analysis of Larry Savage in providing critical analysis of the state of organised labour in Canada. So, I was pleased to see the publication of a new book by him, and Charles Smith, providing insight on…Read more…
Health and social care has suffered the ‘most austere’ decade ever
UNISON delegates agree: we can’t have integration ‘on the cheap’
The article Health and social care has suffered the ‘most austere’ decade ever first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
How can you budget when you don’t know if you’ll be working?
We often assume that a job will provide us with financial stability. Work is supposed to give us a stable income, a dependable budget, and the relief of not having to stress about the next month’s rent. However, for those in insecure work, jobs don’t necessarily guarantee this peace of mind. In a…Read more…
Coyne Sacked by Unite the Union:
Gerard Coyne, who lost the Unite leadership battle to Len McCluskey – has been sacked as the union’s West Midlands regional secretary. Mr Coyne said he was “deeply…Read more…
UNISON National Delegate Conference 2017 – Tuesday
My Conference day started with a short jog up and down the famous Brighton beach. The weather was hot even at 7.30am.
At 8.30am we had our first UNISON NEC meeting to discuss and (hopefully) agree on any outstanding matters or policy positions.
Confe…Read more…
The Tory Trade Union Act 2016: What Has Its Impact Been So Far?
20 June 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, the University of Bradford
The main provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016, concerning new, tougher balloting thresholds, came into…Read more…
‘Now is the time!’ Dave Prentis tells conference
General secretary tells delegates that the tide is turning and that, as the prime minister wobbles, there is hope
The article ‘Now is the time!’ Dave Prentis tells conference first…Read more…
Smash the pay freeze and end austerity, says UNISON general secretary
Speaking today (Tuesday) to UNISON’s annual national conference in Brighton, general secretary Dave Prentis said: “We live in a kingdom dangerously divided into the haves and the have-nots. Some are…Read more…
Labour vows to use new muscle to influence Brexit talks
The Labour Party still wants and expects to be in the “driving seat” of the Brexit negotiations as the next government, Keir Starmer told conference delegates today. The shadow secretary of state for…Read more…
‘The number one priority – will be to break the 1% pay cap’
National delegate conference agrees to a raft of measures to push forward the campaign against the government’s pay cap and, with it, in-work poverty
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Conference hears that ‘one person bullied is one too many’
National delegate conference hears emotional report on the scale and impact of bullying and harassment in the workplace
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Job threat questions raised
Serious questions need to be asked over why more than 500 jobs at the profitable Delphi Diesel Systems in Suffolk are under threat, Unite has said today (Tuesday June 20). Last week, the…Read more…
Government must scrap the pay cap says UNISON, as survey shows public service employees are struggling
Staff providing public services are being forced to cut back on groceries, borrow money from friends or family, and even go without meals to feed their children because the government has capped…Read more…
Radical recruitment
In positive news for workers and communities, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will create 5,000 new high-tech jobs. Unite welcomed the news, saying that investment in the skills necessary to manufacture the…Read more…
Turning up to be sent home without pay: life in insecure work
Imagine turning up to work only to be sent home without pay. It would be frustrating, wouldn’t it? It would be more frustrating still if you had already paid for childcare that day; or if you’d cancelled other plans so you could work; or if not receiving that day’s pay would make it difficult…Read more…
UNISON National Delegate Conference 2017 – Monday
Comrades together picture from this evening outside the Holiday Inn Hotel in Brighton after the UNISON London Region delegates meetings.
Our ace Regional Conveyor, Yvonne Green, is on my left with Housing Association branch delegate Mitsy on her left …Read more…
Paternity Leave:
A quarter of new dads are missing out on paternity leave and pay, says TUC – More than 157,000 new fathers did not qualify for paternity leave or pay last year – TUC calls on new…Read more…