Police Scotland members say ‘yes’ to 3.5% pay rise this year and 3% next year
The article Police staff agree two-year pay deal in Scotland first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
West Ham Parish Church (All Saints) Remembrance Sunday 10th November 2019
This morning I attended yet another beautiful Remembrance Sunday service at the historic 12th Century West Ham Parish Church. I am a local West Ham Ward Councillor but I was there today to represent Newham Council as Deputy Mayor together with Deputy C…Read more…
Review: SAS Shadow Raiders – The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII, by Damien Lewis
One thing I loved about this book is that it tells a much bigger story than one might imagine. At the heart of Lewis’ tale is the heroic raid by British paratroopers in early 1942…Read more…
West Ham on tour: Peterborough, Hull, Cities & Westminster and Chipping Barnet
West Ham on tour: Peterborough, Hull, Cities & Westminster and Chipping BarnetThis morning West Ham Labour members met up outside Stratford Station to go to the launch rally of Labour candidate, Gordon Nardell QC, in the Cities and Westminster seat…Read more…
Launch of Cities & Westminster & Big Unions Campaign in Chipping Barnet (we must win marginals to form Government)
Tomorrow (Saturday 9 November) West Ham Labour members are going to support our key marginal Cities & Westminster campaign launch. Meet at STRATFORD STATION (outside main ticket barrier in concourse) at 9.30 to travel to together to Westminster Nap…Read more…
Visas for overseas NHS staff just ‘window-dressing’, says UNISON
Hostile Tory policies have left overseas staff feeling unwanted and anxious about their futures
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Outsourcing – Five ways to fix it for working families
We need to end this highly exploitative model of public service delivery.Read more…
Manifesto for the North – a pathway to great jobs in every part of the country
The bold vision launched by business and political leaders today can unlock the economic potential of the whole of the North.Read more…
A typical union member?
A recent study reveals some uprising – and some less uprising – insights into union membership in Wales.Read more…
Working class families have had enough – at this election, we want better
At this general election, the TUC urges working people to use our votes to fix Britain and make politicians put working class families first.Read more…
Reserved (low pay) seat threshold for 2020
The cut-off wage for election to reserved (low pay) seats in the union is now £10.63 an hour
The article Reserved (low pay) seat threshold for 2020 first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Labour plans will transform working lives of women
Commenting on Labour’s proposals to improve the workplace for women, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said today (Thursday): “Balancing work with caring for children or…Read more…
Exposing cowboy care providers: the state of social care
Research published today by the Centre for Health and Public Interest shows what UNISON members have been saying for decades: residential care homes are being run irresponsibly.
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Happy Birthday Bolshevik Revolution, Trotsky &… Grayee!
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution (also known as the October Revolution due to the Russian Gregorian Calendar ) and it is also Leon Trotsky’s 140th birthday as well.
This morning at the start of a 5 hour budget meeting the ele…Read more…
Evils of insecure work
Ken Loach’s new film Sorry We Missed You confronts the viewer with the depressing reality of being caught in the grinding poverty of low paid insecure work.
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Sustained investment needed to fix years of Conservative cuts, says UNISON
Chancellor’s pledges nowhere near enough to tackle nine years of austerity
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Lights! Camera! Action!
Could YOU be one of our Christmas stars on film? We’re looking for film clips of members
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Can we afford a shorter working week? Microsoft think so
Can we afford a four-day week? Microsoft certainly think so. This week, the tech giant announced that a four-day week trial in their Japanese office had boosted productivity by 40 per cent.Read more…
Soaring insolvency rates the latest symptom of Britain’s broken economy
Individual insolvencies have drastically risen over the past year as the UK’s household debt crisis continues to grow.Read more…
A tsunami of work-related stress threatens to engulf working people
Today is National Stress Awareness Day. It’s an opportunity to think about the issue of work-related stress and its underlying causes, how we can help individual workers and businesses deal with it,…Read more…