The risk of a devastating no-deal Brexit is now hitting job numbers as well as economic growth.Read more…
‘Taking back control’
Major new research shows that Unite members are working together to successfully confront the challenges Brexit is presenting in workplaces up and down the country. Despite widespread…Read more…
Newham Full Council Meeting 14 October 2019: A minutes silence, Cabinet report on Education & Keynote Speaker Duncan Bew
Picture collage from last night’s Full Council meeting in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. It was a short but emotive meeting. Starting off with the Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz, requesting that the meeting has a minute’s silence in memory of the young m…Read more…
University staff in Edinburgh vote for strike action
Dispute over outsourcing risk at Queen Margaret University seeks 100% vote for action in 75% turn-out
The article University staff in Edinburgh vote for strike action first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
‘Management shambles’
Pathologists at a north east London NHS trust have voted for strike action in a dispute over new shift patterns which, it is claimed, could compromise the integrity of patients’ samples. The…Read more…
‘Government failure on a grand scale’
The extent of the government’s failure to save the iconic travel firm Thomas Cook was revealed today (October 15) in an inquiry by MPs investigating the collapse of the company. The…Read more…
A political stunt that offers nothing to working people – our verdict on the Queen’s Speech
If Boris Johnson really wanted to rebuild Britain, he wouldn’t be threatening working families with the hardest possible Brexit.Read more…
‘Cocktail of calamities’ pushing people into A&E
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s annual state of care report published today (Tuesday), UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “There’s not enough funding for social care, and out of…Read more…
#ONENHS #SamePaySameJob: UNISON Strike for Fair Pay for Compass Hospital Workers
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
We are hospital support staff working for Compass in St Helens & Knowsley and Blackpool NHS Trusts. We keep hospitals clean, cook for patients and keep them safe.
We are paid over £1000 less per year and have worse terms &a…Read more…
Flooring workers ’roundly reject’ pay offer
More than 70 production workers at Forbo Flooring UK Ltd in Ripley, Derbyshire will stage the first of ten 48 hour strikes on Tuesday (October 15), after rejecting a new ‘unsatisfactory’ pay offer,…Read more…
Tips justice finally served?
In what’s been widely criticised as a party political broadcast, today’s (October 14) Queen’s Speech, at a time when the government has no majority, was branded by Unite as an empty gesture that was…Read more…
Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover
Now isn’t the time for game playing or cheap political stunts
The article Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020
Cuts to schools are deeply unfair
The article More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020 first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
What does ‘digital’ mean for your union?
One of the challenges in looking at the experience of digital in UK unions is that there isn’t really any single accepted definition of ‘digital’ across the movement. Different unions currently…Read more…
Review – The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, by Roger Moorhouse
This is how history should be written. Roger Moorhouse has taken a subject rarely covered in detail despite its obvious importance and done a very thorough job of it. He begins the book by pointing…Read more…
Newham Fabians London Labour Policy Conference
This photo college is from yesterday’s all day event in the Old Town Hall in Stratford. This the Fabians at their very best. Great speakers (apart from me – obviously), fair but effective Chairs of panels and genuine questions and real debate about the…Read more…
Why everyone should have the right to work flexibly
It’s time to change the law so that every employer has a duty to offer flexible working from day one in the job.Read more…
Pay for the top 1% rockets but working people still feel the squeeze
TUC analysis shows that pay for the highest earners rose by 7.6 per cent over the last two years compared to just 0.1 per cent for the typical worker.Read more…
Alignment in exec pay
There’s a lot of commentary from a lot of sources these days arguing against a shareholder-centric corporate governance model. So far, the commentary is far ahead of any policy, and certainly in the US there is scepticism about the motives of those – l…Read more…
Indigenous Resistance Day – Showing Newham solidarity alongside Keir Hardie
Today is #IndigenousResistanceDay remembering the struggle against Colonialism in the Continent of America. (It used to be called “Columbus Day”). After @newhamfabians
event in the historic Old #Stratford town hall we gathered next to bust of avo…Read more…