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“Dear Members
Firstly, may I apologise for the lateness of this report. The past few months have been exceptionally busy (for all of us).
Many thanks to all everyone who supported Cllr Whitworth and myself to be reselected as your candidates in the…Read more…
Members of Unite will be holding a series of protests tomorrow (July 24) over a ‘race to the bottom’ in pay, conditions and safety at the £800m energy to waste construction site at Parc Adfer in…Read more…
Unite has welcomed moves to provide boys as well as girls with the HPV vaccine. The HPV vaccine is offered to girls aged 12 to 13 at school and is free for all girls until they turn 18,…Read more…
The Universal Credit IT system is “broken” and causing hardship for thousands of claimants, according to whistleblowers. Service centre workers have spoken about faults in the “cobbled…Read more…
As TGI Fridays workers continue in their fight for fair tips, it has now been revealed that the restaurant chain’s top boss is cashing in on a massive pay rise – which takes her total pay to more…Read more…
This isn’t an official report, but is accurate to the best of my knowledge. If you spot any errors or omissions, please let me know. I have also uploaded the official “progress of business”.
You can refer to the conference agenda (the pack of motions …Read more…
I had the pleasure of attending the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival yesterday. Some thirty years ago I worked in Dorset, and as Chair of the local trades council, I helped to organise this event. I still…Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) will be supporting a demonstration tomorrow (July 24) in protest against GP at Hand, an online NHS GP app powered by private company Babylon that critics have said is…Read more…
We are now, undisputedly, in the summer holiday season. In the weeks ahead, millions of people will head off around the UK and out of the country on holiday – taking a break from their day to day. I…Read more…
It’s against the law to transport livestock when it gets too hot, so why are workers still forced to toil in this heat?Read more…
Before his latest piece of self-promotion, Boris Johnson had been in the news for making an interesting remark – “Fuck business” – in a conversation about the attitudes of corporates towards Brexit. Though it’s a few weeks back now, it seems this remar…Read more…
Belated picture collage from NHS 70th Birthday Party held on 5 July in Gateshead. UNISON Labour Link Executive was meeting nearby “across the water” to prepare for the National Forum which started the following day and we volunteered to join the celebr…Read more…
I have already about 10 different defined benefit and defined contribution pensions. It is ridiculous in this day and age that we cannot have a single dashboard to control them.”Do not scrap the promised pensions dashboard, a website that would help mi…Read more…
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Russian imperial family by the Bolsheviks. Among those killed were not only the hated Tsar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, but also their…Read more…
A theme I think anyone with an interest in corporate governance should keep an eye on is the way that the interests of investors in a firm in relation to others are portrayed in financial media and elsewhere.
Under the 1990s model it was common to see…Read more…
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Interesting…. (no known relation)
Philosophical Belief Discrimination
Can an employer discriminate on grounds of philosophical belief where the employee is the only person to hold such a belief?
No, held the EAT in Gray v Mulberry.
Ms Gray worked…Read more…
Like everyone does, I spent a bit of my spare time yesterday having a quick trawl through the FCA’s list of disclosed short positions. Quite often these fishing trips end up leaving me empty handed, but this time I stumbled on something interesting.
Hat tip Redbrick (shame because Dispatches have a good track record)
“With reporter Antony Barnett driving between sites in a flash open top and very sporty white car, trying to link a number of disconnected stories under the disingenuous title of ‘Ge…Read more…
Shantha David named Liberty’s lawyer of the year for leading the fight against employment tribunal fees
The article UNISON lawyer wins major human rights award first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…