08 February 2019
By RMT
On November 20, the government passed the Civil Liability Bill through its final stages, the effect of which strips workers of their rights. The fight to stop this goes on…Read more…
Civil Liability Bill: An attack on workers’ rights
08 February 2019
By RMT
On November 20, the government passed the Civil Liability Bill through its final stages, the effect of which strips workers of their rights. The fight to stop this goes on…Read more…
Austerity is killing us
Two reports published today show that the increase in life expectancy in Scotland has now stalled and that health inequalities have worsened.
One report compares life expectancy trends in Scotland to…Read more…
‘Look to the future’
Trade union leaders and Tudor manor houses may have little in common but Sutton House in Hackney, London is not your usual period building, nor was Clive Jenkins your usual general secretary. …Read more…
Pantomime drama to pay victory
Unite has negotiated an inflation beating pay increase for hundreds of workers at Bristol Waste, following a sustained organising campaign to overturn the company’s original pay offer which fell well…Read more…
Come clean call
Unite has called on the NHS Trust responsible for building the new Midland Metropolitan hospital, to come clean with patients and staff over further delays to the vitally needed hospital. …Read more…
Learning to lead as LGBT
February is LGBT History Month. Here, UNISON member Nick O’Reilly talks about the challenge of being out and a manager
The article Learning to lead as LGBT first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
♡ UNISON: because of the support they give me as a nurse
“Men’s mental health at work: how unions can help men to open up”
Great post on TUC website. I did not realise that today was “time to talk day”.
“It’s a bit of a cliché – the strong and silent man, the stiff upper lip. But sometimes clichés are clichés because they contain a truth. The truth here is that men o…Read more…
Inequality, depression, unions
Today someone mentioned Angus Deaton and it reminded me of this interview with him in the FT which I always meant to blog about. It’s two years old now, and took place just after Trump’s victory, but there are several bits that really resonate with me….Read more…
‘Toxic’ work culture
Unite has called for a radical change in the existing senior leadership at Amnesty International following a new report into the health and wellbeing of the workforce. The report by the…Read more…
‘We won’ – Glasgow women celebrate equal pay
City Chambers rally greets council’s ratification of £548m deal to compensate for years of unequal pay
The article ‘We won’ – Glasgow women celebrate equal pay first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Cottam power station to shut
Unite will be exploring alternative employment for the workers who will lose their jobs when the Cottam coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire ceases generation on September 30. EDF…Read more…
‘Stop playing games’
Unite announced today (February 6) that it was seeking a high court injunction to stop Birmingham city council from breaking the agreement cemented in law that brought an end to 2017’s long-running…Read more…
‘Kick in the teeth’
The shipbuilding industry suffered another setback today (February 7) after Babcock announced 150 redundancies at its Rosyth shipyard. Unite said the losses, which follow on from the decision…Read more…
‘Right thing to do’
Unite’s period dignity campaign is spreading like wildfire as more and more workplaces sign up to provide free sanitary products in toilets – since its launch in September last year dozens of firms…Read more…
It’s time to talk
The majority of people will suffer from mental ill health at one point or another in their lives – but a protracted stigma has kept so many of us in the ‘silent majority’, unable to reach out for…Read more…
It’s time to talk
The majority of people will suffer from mental ill health at one point or another in their lives – but a protracted stigma has kept so many of us in the ‘silent majority’, unable to reach out for…Read more…
It takes balls to talk
At a time when suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 50, Unite believes on Time to Talk Day today (February 7) that it’s especially time to talk about men’s mental health. …Read more…
A Day in life: UNISON NEC, Pension meeting on Housing investment, & Chartered Institute of Housing Dinner
A full on Labour Movement Day. A long UNISON NEC meeting (and the rest); then met up with LGPS pension fund officers and fund advisers on possible investments in Housing (see why housing is an investment opportunity as well as social need) & infras…Read more…