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This week is Fair Tax Week. Imagine what a better world we would live in if the rich individuals and corporations paid their fair share in taxation.
One of my favourite quotations is this “I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization”. Justice Ol…Read more…
Summer travel chaos at Heathrow Airport is looming large Unite warned today (July 12) after workers across the airport’s five terminals announced a series of strikes in a dispute over pay. …Read more…
The shocking extent of bullying and harassment of parliamentary staff was laid bare this week (July 11) in a new report — and Unite’s parliamentary staff branch are hopeful it will bring…Read more…
A disabled Unite health care worker, who is a survivor of marital rape and psychological coercion, has spoken out about the inhuman way domestic abuse victims and other vulnerable people are treated…Read more…
Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed by the Ministry of Defence and its subcontractors, has written to members cautioning them that their employer is failing to warn them about the…Read more…
Workplace training has dropped sharply according to new analysis by the TUC, which warned that the UK is facing a “looming skills crisis”. Technological developments and increasing automation…Read more…
I have finally got around to posting on a great “fact finding” visit I had recently with Leader of Preston Council, Cllr Matthew Brown, showing me and a Newham Council officer Community Wealth Building (CWB) initiatives in and around his City centre.
Two separate groups of workers at Gatwick airport are to begin balloting for industrial action over poverty pay rates. If the workers vote for strike action then passengers at Gatwick are set to face…Read more…
A pathology recruitment crisis at a north east London NHS trust has exacerbated a dispute over new shift patterns which could see biomedical scientists lose about £10,000 a year, Unite said today…Read more…
Every year I carry out an analysis of the websites of all the TUC affiliated unions to compare their perceived ‘authority’. I compile the results into the trade union website league table (see…Read more…
Crunch talks between Unite and the homeless charity St. Mungo’s are set to take place tomorrow (July 12) at the conciliation service Acas in a long running dispute over job security and attacks to…Read more…
Unite has called for root and branch reform of employment practices following a bombshell report out today (July 11) into parliamentary bullying and harassment. The inquiry led by Gemma White…Read more…
Alex Lloyd-Hunter of digital agency Forward Action was one of the judges in this year’s TUC Communications Awards. And before the ceremony, he talked to a group of union communicators about his…Read more…
June was another busy month for the union – more victories for our members, and conferences in Liverpool
The article Here comes summer! first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unite has raised concerns after health secretary Matt Hancock announced the start of a new partnership between the NHS and Alexa, Amazon’s voice activated device. The partnership will…Read more…
Unite’s campaign against bogus self-employment extends through all regions and sectors. In June, the union’s Regional Officer for Construction in the ROI, Tom Fitzgerald, told a parliamentary…Read more…
Members on low income could be eligible for school uniform grants from UNISON “There4You” of £40 per child (up to maximum of £120 for 3 children).
Application forms have to be returned by Friday 19 July. Members who are housing benefit and have limite…Read more…
Building a 1000 Council owned homes at social rents and campaigning against right to buyRead more…
The pay gap between white and black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) workers still stubbornly persists, with white British workers earning on average nearly 4 per cent more than their non-white…Read more…