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Only 13 days until the local elections on 3rd May 2018 and the weather is looking lovely!
Grab your sun cream and join us for a canvassing session in the next week to get our Labour candidates and our fantastic mayoral candidate R…Read more…
Nottingham City Council was wrong to deny several hundred of its employees the right to incremental pay increases with effect from April 2011, says a judgment handed down at the Court of Appeal. The…Read more…
Unite welcomed a new pledge from the Labour Party announced this week (April 19) that would establish an additional mandated health visit for babies 3-4 months – a time that experts say is critical…Read more…
Passengers using Luton Airport this summer could experience significant disruption as Unite announced a series of strike ballots over pay and zero hours’ contracts. Unite is balloting…Read more…
Vauxhall van workers have overwhelmingly backed a pay deal that secures investment in the Luton van plant and guarantees jobs for over a decade, Unite announced today (April 20). Just over 68…Read more…
Workers at TGI Fridays Trafford Centre in Manchester and Haymarket in London are being balloted for strike action, as the second in a series of rolling strike ballot hits the American dining chain in…Read more…
One in five people working in the UK do not earn enough to live on – that’s about 5m people earning below the Living Wage, a rate calculated by an independent foundation to reflect the real cost of…Read more…
Check out this Tory cuts calculator to find out how your community has suffered (and due to suffer even more) from a decade of Tory cuts. Think about how much more housing or extra Police or healthcare,education and youth services could have been provi…Read more…
Salford campaigners to the fore in launching national funding for nurseries campaign at Parliament on 25 April
The article Nursery funding campaign goes to Westminster first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Looks really interesting but will be knocking on doors next Thursday methinks! Read more…
UNISON and our members need to be round the table and involved in the decisions about the future of public services in Northamptonshire. By ensuring that, we’ll achieve better outcomes for everyone –…Read more…
Thursday 19 April 2018 For immediate release Commenting on Labour’s plans to build a million ‘genuinely affordable’ properties over 10 years, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “It’s great…Read more…
About 3,000 NHS workers at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn are facing swingeing hikes to their car parking charges that threaten to wipe out the proposed NHS pay rise. Unite said…Read more…
Unite welcomed the Labour Party’s new housing policy review, which was launched today (April 19) by shadow housing secretary John Healy and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The Housing for the…Read more…
The long running dispute at Essex concrete maker Tarmac Building Products Ltd has been resolved after a deal safeguarding against the creation of a two tier workforce was agreed. The…Read more…
Unite has vowed to fight the announced closure of a 2 Sisters plant in Cambuslang, Scotland as the union now seeks legal advice to stop up to 450 job losses. In February, plans were first…Read more…
A far too rare night out to the theatre yesterday evening to watch the alternative comedian, Mark Thomas.
The performance was about “Dodging cultural and literal bullets, Israeli incursions and religion, Mark and his team set out to run a comedy…Read more…
With the Melrose bid for GKN almost complete, our old friends Elliott are back in the news again, this time targeting Whitbread, where it looks like they will be pushing for Costa to be spun off. Cue lots of headlines, many of them identifying Elliott’…Read more…
It’s time the legal status of the Windrush generation was confirmed once and for all – but the stain their treatment leaves on the already ugly record of this government will take a very long time to…Read more…
Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are being expected to do the work of nurses without adequate training or proper supervision, according to survey results published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. Nearly two…Read more…