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Hat tip Captain Swing for “Souvenir programme” of West Ham Trades Council “unfurling ceremony” of their new banner by Victor Feather, Assistant Secretary of the Trade Union Congress (later General Secretary of TUC).
Captain Swing and I wonder where th…Read more…
The wellbeing of Interserve’s 45,000 UK workforce and it supply chain are being ignored, Unite warned (March 13) as the company totters on the brink of administration. Interserve has thousands…Read more…
Unions and business leaders have eviscerated plans to reduce import tariffs on 87 per cent of goods to zero if the UK crashes out of the EU with no deal. The plans were announced before a…Read more…
The harsh realities facing ordinary families up and down the country were ignored by chancellor Philip Hammond today (March 13) in a Spring Statement that was thin on new ideas or substance. …Read more…
Chancellor’s spring statement fails to tackle the issues that will cast a shadow over generations
The article Little today for struggling local services, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Despite talk of ‘deal dividends’ and ‘Brexit bribes’, there seems to be no end in sight for local government when it comes to austerity. As the Local Government Association (LGA) recently…Read more…
Unite called on the chancellor Philip Hammond to use today’s (March 13) Spring Statement to dramatically boost the UK’s beleaguered car industry, its supply chain and wider manufacturing. With…Read more…
Crashing out of the EU in just over two weeks would be a disaster
The article No deal rejection welcome, but we’re miles away from the agreement the UK needs first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Government failure in Commons defeat over PM’s EU deal still leaves huge uncertainty and catastrophic risks
The article PM is still serving up a bad Brexit deal, says UNISON first appeared on the…Read more…
It was one of the iconic images of the early 1960s: a young Bob Dylan walking down a snow-covered street in Manhattan, looking down, while a young woman clutching his left arm walks with him,…Read more…
A proposal for removing import tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit would do serious harm to British industry. It will put thousands of jobs at risk and threaten key industries, such as steel,…Read more…
We held our branch AGM at Committee room 17 in the House of Commons. Sarah Jones MP, Shadow Housing Minister gave a superb presentation on Labour housing policy and stayed for an extended questions and answers session. She then had to rush off to vote …Read more…
All not-for-profit sector organisations operating with the support of Manchester City Council will be required to follow ethical employment standards from this week, following a groundbreaking Unite…Read more…
In another blow to UK car manufacturing, Japanese carmaker Nissan today (March 12) announced it would end production of the Infiniti Q30 at its Sunderland plant by the summer – just two months after…Read more…
Kurdish MP Leyla Güven has now been on hunger strike for more than 120 days. Her body has begun to shut down; she can hardly speak. Alongside over 300 other hunger strikers, Leyla is standing…Read more…
It will take all of us who care about equality and fairness playing our part to overturn these structural inequalities in our society. Yet the work our union and others have done already shows we can…Read more…
The chancellor should use tomorrow’s spring statement to scrap the rules that penalise low-income families applying for universal credit and tax credits, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Any parents…Read more…
I wonder what is the history behind this property in New Barn St, London E13 8JL?Read more…
Up to a hundred compulsory redundancies are planned at Bombardier in Northern Ireland despite large numbers having their applications for voluntary redundancy rejected, Unite has highlighted. …Read more…