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By Daniel Blaney
“The Mayor [of Newham] has set out a clear ambition for housing in Newham, with a particular focus on increasing social housing stock in the borough.
This will require significant Council capital i…Read more…
HCPC must listen to its registrants and scrap this increase
The article HCPC fee increase is an unjustified ‘tax on practising’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Brexit warnings from the car giant Ford underline the catastrophic consequences of a no deal Brexit, Unite said today (February 13) as it called on ministers and MPs to take a no deal, hard Brexit…Read more…
Now there’s the chance to clarify the law once and for all
The article Sleep-in appeal to the Supreme Court is extremely good news first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Last week another figure was tallied to the sad statistic of construction worker fatalities in the UK, following the untimely death of a worker at the Longannet power station in Scotland. …Read more…
As Birmingham bin workers prepare for strike action from Tuesday (February 19), Birmingham City Council faced Unite this morning (February 13) at a preliminary High Court hearing in London. …Read more…
This new graphic novel is a beautifully-drawn, powerfully-told story about a group of seven Soviet female snipers during the Second World War. Sara, the best shot in the group, is plagued by doubts…Read more…
Unite and the wider labour movement last night (February 12) paid tribute to RAF veteran, author and anti-austerity activist Harry Leslie Smith at a memorial event in London. Smith, who came…Read more…
In part 3 of our Heart Unions series, we catch up with the Unite Community Norfolk branch, which over the summer, took matters into their own hands to tackle holiday hunger in the face of austerity….Read more…
Well over a decade ago, when I worked at the TUC, we started carrying out a survey of directors’ pensions entitlements in the FTSE100. This was because we were aware that many directors still had DB pensions when these schemes were being closed for sta…Read more…
Unite paid tribute to the late Harry Leslie Smith, RAF veteran, author and anti-austerity activist, at a memorial event called Remembering a Rebel, held at Conway Hall in central London last night…Read more…
(Off message) After Labour Local Government Conference in Coventry, Gill and I stayed over and went for a walk on the Sunday around nearby Warwick. A 5 mile flat circular walk courtesy of the AA, starting off at the racecourse. It rained in the mornin…Read more…
The OfS report demonstrates the inequality and injustice at the heart of higher education pay
The article Reduce vice chancellor pay and reward staff fairly across the university sector first…Read more…
Plans for a new Housing Complaints Resolution Service welcomed
The article UNISON calls for overhaul of England’s private housing system first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Birmingham council was accused of acting in a deceitful and deliberately misleading manner by Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, after peace talks aimed at preventing next week’s bin strikes…Read more…
Any sale by Tata Steel of its steel packaging plants must be done responsibly and in full consultation with trade unions Unite said today (February 12). The call follows reports that the…Read more…
Unite is to submit a complaint to HMRC in the coming days, outlining a list of alleged minimum wage abuses against TGI Fridays, the American-themed restaurant chain, uncovered in the last 12 months….Read more…
Cleaners at Ford in Dagenham are being recommended to accept an inflation-busting pay rise of three per cent for 2019, Unite has announced. The 150 cleaners, employed by Hamton Environmental…Read more…
Dozens of rich parliamentarians – many of them Tories – own or control farms that brought in millions of pounds in EU subsidies last year, raising conflict of interest issues that could influence the…Read more…
Under increasing pressure to change tack on Universal Credit, work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd has herself admitted that the government’s flagship welfare reform has contributed to a rise in…Read more…