Where does Carillion’s collapse leave our country? The failure of the services giant couldn’t have come at a worse moment. A stagnant economy, uncertainty over Brexit and arguments…Read more…
NAO report is a scathing indictment of PFI, says UNISON
The National Audit Office (NAO) report on the public finance initiative provides a scathing indictment of PFI and PF2, and confirms many of the fears UNISON has been raising for more than 20 years,…Read more…
TUC Pensions Conference 2018 Fixing the retirement lottery
The Trades Union Congress annual pensions conference brings together a range of experts to examine the most important developments in the world of pensions.This year’s event focuses on fixing the ‘Great Pensions Lottery’ that means the insecurity …Read more…
Unite call to help firms result
The business minister Greg Clark has pressured banks into extending credit to firms left at risk by Carillion’s collapse, following an intervention from Unite. The union is also calling on the…Read more…
‘Predatory’ bid
An investment firm is still aiming for a “predatory” takeover of engineering company GKN despite having two bids rejected in recent days. In response, Unite held an emergency meeting of GKN…Read more…
Hull parking row
Hull city council employees, such as social workers, who need their cars to carry out their duties, will be staging a demo tomorrow (January 18) over the withdrawal of their free parking passes….Read more…
‘Lifeblood of London’
Unite members, bus drivers at Merton bus garage, today (January 17) met Unite general secretary Len McCluskey and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to celebrate the new ‘Licence for London’…Read more…
Landmark deal
Unite member Neil Muhammad would never have imagined that he would be earning £150 a week less than he did two decades ago for doing the same exact job. And this figure doesn’t take into…Read more…
‘Fantastic result’
Over a hundred construction workers at three high profile projects across London have collectively secured an estimated £250,000 pounds worth of holiday pay after a Unite organising campaign forced…Read more…
The year ahead: this is what we’ll be doing
UNISON members from the union’s executive look ahead at what we can expect, and what your union is planning, for the next 12 months
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UNISON comments on rising number of nurses leaving the NHS
It’s highly damaging that so many nurses are leaving the NHS so soon after qualifying.
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Christmas deaths in Eastern England reveal true extent of winter crisis
Twenty grieving families will now, quite rightly, be demanding answers
The article Christmas deaths in Eastern England reveal true extent of winter crisis first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The NHS crisis in five charts
Unless you’ve been truly hibernating so far this year, you will have heard that thousands of NHS operations have been cancelled. But what is the NHS winter crisis?
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Video: Isle Of Wight Save Our NHS Meeting
Isle Of Wight Save Our NHS Meeting Sunday 14th January 2018 at the Unitarian Hall Newport AdvertisementsRead more…
Preventing suicide – the work connection
There can be few more tragic issues that a union representative has to deal with than the suicide of a fellow worker.Read more…
Why despite 3 profit warnings did the Tory Government keep giving Carillion public contracts? Because its Chair was a key supporter?
Not sure he was a donor but Carillion Chair, Philip Green, was an open Conservative supporter. The corruption of public life in national politics (and local politics) is just appalling. Left and right politicians can and are found to be corrupt, but th…Read more…
Carillion’s encapsulates rise and fall of neoliberalism:
Ink It Onto Your Knuckles – Carillion Is How Neoliberalism Lives and Breathes by Paul Mason When right-wing economists tell me there is no such thing as neoliberalism – that it is a figment of the…Read more…
Factory Gate Meetings At Bombardier Belfast – Thursday January 18th
Workers to gather for union meetings between noon and 1.00pm on Thursday [January 18th] at gates of all five Bombardier sites Decision by US International Trade Commission on proposed 292% C Series…Read more…
Sorry tale of fat cat greed
Greedy Carillion fat cats are still creaming exorbitant amounts of taxpayers’ cash handed to them by the Tories, even as tens of thousands face losing their jobs following the construction firm’s…Read more…
‘Carillion-style Pandora’s Box’?
The NHS faces a ‘Pandora’s Box of Carillion-type meltdowns’, if trusts continue to set up subsidiaries to avoid paying tax, Unite warned today (January 16). Unite has written to the health and…Read more…