Crane workers will be protesting outside Sunderland’s Stadium of Light tonight (September 4) in their pay dispute, as bosses try to undermine strike action by buying pizzas and burgers for those…Read more…
Show racism the red card
Unite is welcoming Show Racism the Red Card to the union’s headquarters on Wednesday, September 5 to launch Wear Red Day 2018, which will be attended by former and current footballers. The…Read more…
‘Toxic mix’
Brexit uncertainty and the continued squeeze in wages are combining to form a toxic mix which is hitting manufacturing investment, Unite has warned this week (September 3). The latest UK…Read more…
Blog: Continuing the fight against privatisation
Now, more than ever, we have a chance to push back against private profit and in favour of public need. In Manchester next week, we will continue to fight for just that.
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School staff buckling under intolerable workloads and mounting stress
Drastic cuts, staff restructuring and rocketing stress levels are becoming the norm in UK schools, according to a survey of school support staff published today (Tuesday) by UNISON. The findings –…Read more…
Old ladies tell off kids playing in London council estate 1970s
An age old problem. It hadn’t changed that much when I first started working in Council Housing in the early 1990s in Bethnal Green and still goes on in Newham and elsewhere today.
hat tip “From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the c…Read more…
Fair pay deal call
Some bus drivers in Nottingham and Derbyshire have had to resort to food banks to augment their low wages and a series of strikes are now planned in protest at poverty pay. Unite said that 160…Read more…
Access to justice threat
Workers up against unsafe employers will have little recourse to justice after being forced to pay their own legal fees if injured at work under new government plans. The government is…Read more…
It’s time to value our carers
Birmingham carers are on strike because the council thinks they’re an easy target for cuts
The article It’s time to value our carers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
UNISON calls on Salisbury NHS trust to rethink wholly owned subsidiary plans
UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations
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Childcare costs rocket three times faster than wages since 2008
Nursery costs have risen by more than 50% over the last decade, while earnings for the aveage working family grew by a paltry 17%Read more…
“Len McCluskey hits out as he joins fellow union bosses in urging party to adopt full IHRA definition”
Well said! elected General Secretary of UNITE, Len McCluskey who gave support in advance of the Labour Party NEC meeting on Tuesday, where the issue regarding the IHRA definition will be discussed and hopefully begin to be resolved.
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Walter Tull & 11 November 2018
A couple of weeks ago I went to Folkestone (via the high speed rail link in 46 minutes) for a Friday night beer and curry with an old mate. The following morning hangover cure was a brisk walk along the beach and back along the prom.
Near the town War…Read more…
No Deal Brexit Papers Exercise In Pantomime and Menace
By Ben Norman, Research Officer at Unite the Union And so, perhaps inevitably, it’s come to this. After almost two years of Brexit talks between the EU and Britain’s best interlocutors (plus David…Read more…
Personal spending squeeze
Four in ten people have less than £6.60 per day to spend on themselves after their bills have been paid, a survey by the Nationwide Building Society has found. In the UK people have on…Read more…