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There is no Council elections in London this year so we asked our next door regional UNISON Labour link comrades to recommend where London UNISON members could go on Thursday.
So far 2 requests both in Kent :-
1.”London Labour Link Colleagues,
We …Read more…
A victory for Spanish socialists – who won the most seats in the country’s snap general election yesterday (April 29) – has been tempered because for the first time since the Franco era a number of…Read more…
Commenting on the announcement today (Tuesday) that two of the holding companies behind care firm Four Seasons have gone into administration, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said:…Read more…
Security staff at Southampton General Hospital, who have been attacked in the A&E department, have suspended a 48-hour strike due to start on Friday (May 3), while they vote on a new pay and sick…Read more…
Another busy month saw UNISON celebrating victories – and launching new campaigns
The article Will a shower of April wins help us flower in May? first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unite members across the UK came together to mark International Worker’s Memorial Day (IWMD) at the weekend on Sunday, April 28, to pay tribute to those who have died in work. Unite…Read more…
Men face an entrenched workplace culture that fails to encourage them to take parental leave, according to a new survey out this week (April 29). The poll of 1,000 fathers found that a third…Read more…
This comment first appeared on LabourList on Tuesday, April 30. “In the context of a 100-year life, continuous training and retaining will become more important. Older people need to be…Read more…
Nominations will open on 14 May: nomination forms and other materials will be available on the web from 7 Ma
The article Labour Link national committee election first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
If you have not received your UNISON NEC 2019 ballot papers yet to your home postal address then ring 0800 0857 857 to ask for another set of ballot papers to be sent out.
You do not need your UNISON membership number and you still have time to ask fo…Read more…
Scottish Water is a public corporation, accountable to Scottish Ministers and parliament. It was created in 2002 by a merger of three regional water authorities. This contrasts with the privatised…Read more…
Bromley library workers are being balloted for strike action in the first stage of the campaign to give a big pay boost to workers employed by social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich…Read more…
Workers, who operate the Woolwich Ferry used by an estimated 2.6m passengers a year, are to strike for 10 days in a dispute over pay, health & safety, and lack of staffing. The 31 workers,…Read more…
One in five LGBTQ+ NHS staff and a third of ambulance staff say they have been assaulted at work, new figures show. More than 20 per cent of healthcare staff identifying as LGBTQ+ on the 2018…Read more…
“Thanks so much to John for organising this as he does every year, and to everyone who has attended today. It is always a powerful demonstration of how much the labour movement and our heritage means to us today.
On Worker’s Memorial Day every year w…Read more…
Today we remembered four local workers who in 1901 selflessly lost their lives, while trying to rescue a colleague who had collapsed from poisonous fumes, whilst inspecting a ventilation shaft in what is now “Three Mills Green park”.
This annual…Read more…
I blogged last year that I thought the position of shareholders relative to other stakeholders was going to come into sharper focus in politics. Here’s a piece from my favourite newspaper this weekend to make the point:
It’s a pretty simple message:…Read more…
Keeping our members safe at work is one of the most important tasks that trade unions can do. Today, let’s remember how far we’ve come in that fight – and how much more there is to do.
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Unite has partnered with global union federations IndustriALL Global and UNI on a yearlong worldwide health and safety campaign in the pulp, paper, packaging and graphical sector that begins today…Read more…
Every year on April 28 on Workers Memorial Day, Unite joins workers across the world to pay tribute to those who have tragically died at work – many under unsafe working conditions. Today we…Read more…