Bringing the 111 and 999 services together should lead to “real improvements” for both patients and staff
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Government should heed report’s call and fund councils properly
Commenting on the report on council funding published today (Wednesday) by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Local councils…Read more…
TUC LESE Annual Health & Safety Briefing – Respiratory Health – a Workplace Issue
TUC LESE Annual Health & Safety Briefing – Respiratory Health – a Workplace Issue
Friday 27 September 2019
Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
· The central theme for this year is r…Read more…
‘Drop the threats’ call
Workers at Dulux paint producer AkzoNobel in Stowmarket, Suffolk are being balloted for strike action over a ‘paltry’ pay offer, as the bosses issue an ultimatum to withdraw an already rejected…Read more…
‘It’s going to create chaos’
Government plans to immediately end freedom of movement in the event of a no deal Brexit would dwarf the Windrush scandal, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has warned. Unite condemned the…Read more…
‘Fighting for the future of every child’
Health visitors and hundreds of their supporters, including Labour’s shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, marched through Lincoln’s cobbled streets on Saturday (August 17) to stand up for the…Read more…
A new reign for Greene King?
Unite is seeking urgent meeting with the new owners of Greene King, the UK’s largest pub and brewery firm, following an announcement that it is to be taken over by a Hong Kong-based multinational….Read more…
‘Discredited austerity regime’
Stoke-on-Trent city council has been accused of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” over plans to axe about 250 jobs so that it can give a financial boost to children’s services. Unite said the…Read more…
Costa Coffee “stealing” money from their staff
Check out this BBC report
Costa Coffee: Employees call £200 deductions for training ‘unfair’
This is outrageous and I hope people boycott this @CostaCoffee in Upminister (& any other employer who steals from its workforce).
This sort of …Read more…
‘Deeply sinister’
Unite has accused Merseyside police of being heavy handed with union activists protesting against working conditions at a construction site near Ellesmere Port.
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H&W workers: ‘We will dictate who buys our company’
In a boost to workers occupying Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff, administrators have said there have been “positive discussions” over the site’s sale and have struck a deal with Unite to keep…Read more…
Review: London Rules, by Mick Herron
OK, I’ve said this before and I have to say it again: plot is not Mick Herron’s greatest strength. In this book, the fifth in the Slough House series, a bunch of terrorists blow up some…Read more…
Financial Advice Sessions 3-4 September 2019 for members considering Voluntary Redundancy
The branch has asked Lighthouse Financial Advice to organise complimentary one-to-one sessions for Unison members employed by Stoke-On-Trent City Council who are considering accepting voluntary redundancy. These will be held at the branch office at 40 …Read more…
How Netanyahu lost
On October 30, 1972 a little-known author named Arthur Tobier published a book entitled How McGovern Won the Presidency and Why the Polls Were Wrong. The New York Times described the book as “perhaps…Read more…
Park Road Crime & ASB re-inspection 12.8.19
Last week I went on a second walkabout in Park Road, E6 with Residents, Council Officers, Police and local ward Councillor, Nilufa Jahan. Cllr Jahan had persuaded the Police to send a “design out crime” specialist to the block, who had produced an exce…Read more…
UNISON equality survey 2019
Win a holiday AND fight for equality by filling out the 2019 equality survey by 26 August. Go to https://unison.org.uk/eqsurvey2019Read more…
Learning to put hope and power into the hands of young workers
Last Saturday, 20 young workers from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region came together in Sheffield for the first time to learn how to organise. Here’s what we learned.Read more…
The Franchise system still isn’t working, regardless of who runs the west coast
Yesterday the government announced that Virgin Trains would not run the West Coast mainline for the first time since 1997. A consortium of FirstGroup and Trenitalia (the Italian state rail operator,…Read more…
The economy of the many is better than the economy of the few
200 years ago today (16 August), a public meeting on St. Peter’s Field in Manchester was savagely broken up by government forces. Shelly’s famous poem ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ commemorated those who…Read more…
Newham Council Under the Stars 2019
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