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6 tips for negotiating with your employer/management team

Feb 21, 2020By TUC blogs

Negotiating with management can be a scary prospect. Asking for ‘more’ or ‘better’ is a vital part of trade union activity but it often makes people feel awkward or as if they are making trouble. …Read more…

Feb 21, 2020TUC blogs

Safe, Decent and Affordable Homes for All: UNISON’s vision for Housing

Feb 20, 2020By John's Labour blog

UNISON has launched a Housing manifesto. Over 1 million people are waiting on the housing list in England alone. While only 6500 social rented homes were built in 2017/18.

Do the maths.

60% of the housing budget goes on supporting home ownership (and…Read more…

Feb 20, 2020John's Labour blog

Joint Trade Union Update Following City SOT Council Cabinet Meeting 19 February 2020

Feb 20, 2020By City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

JOINT TRADE UNION UPDATE FOLLOWING CABINET MEETING The joint trade unions would like to thank the large numbers of members that were able to attend the protest. And a thank you for the messages of solidarity received by those who … Continue readi…Read more…

Feb 20, 2020City of Stoke on Trent UNISON

Council cleaners celebrate after seeing off outsourcing threat

Feb 20, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

UNISON campaigning sees Middlesbrough council drop privatisation plan

The article Council cleaners celebrate after seeing off outsourcing threat first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Feb 20, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Rotherham Council signs UNISON’s ethical care charter

Feb 20, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

Authority makes commitment to ensure staff are treated with respect

The article Rotherham Council signs UNISON’s ethical care charter first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Feb 20, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Integrity? Authority? Unity?

Feb 19, 2020By Jon's union blog

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Feb 19, 2020Jon's union blog

Laura Parker: Why I’m backing Keir Starmer for Labour leader

Feb 19, 2020By John's Labour blog

This is a really positive endorsement from the Momentum’s national coordinator until 2019, and who had previously worked as private secretary to Jeremy Corbyn. This shows the breath of support for Keir and he is the one who is best placed to unite…Read more…

Feb 19, 2020John's Labour blog

Allied Bakeries win

Feb 19, 2020By UNITElive

Allied Bakeries workers have voted to accept an improved pay offer and so called off planned industrial action, ending the threat of disruption to pancake supply ahead of Pancake Day. The result,…Read more…

Feb 19, 2020UNITElive

Why the new points-based immigration system threatens everyone’s rights at work

Feb 19, 2020By TUC blogs

Government plans for new restrictions on migrant workers will make it easier for bad bosses to undercut and exploit everyone who works.Read more…

Feb 19, 2020TUC blogs

Points-based immigration system slammed

Feb 19, 2020By UNITElive

Large labour shortages are predicted after the government unveiled its latest post-Brexit immigration plans which will bar both EU and non-EU migrant workers from securing visas for jobs paying less…Read more…

Feb 19, 2020UNITElive

Review: Hitler’s Death: The Case Against Conspiracy, by Luke Daly-Groves

Feb 19, 2020By Eric Lee

Adolf Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 in his bunker in Berlin. He did not escape to Argentina in a U-boat. He did not go into hiding in a monastery in Tibet. He was…Read more…

Feb 19, 2020Eric Lee

Immigration plans “spell disaster for care sector”, says UNISON

Feb 19, 2020By Dave Prentis blog

Ending the supply of workers will leave vulnerable with no support

The article Immigration plans “spell disaster for care sector”, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Feb 19, 2020Dave Prentis blog

Answering big questions by starting small – Developing the WorkSmart prototype

Feb 19, 2020By TUC Digital

The TUC’s WorkSmart project explores how unions could engage with young workers who have little awareness of us. Over the last two years we’ve developed an idea that could appeal to young workers….Read more…

Feb 19, 2020TUC Digital

‘Sinister in the extreme’

Feb 19, 2020By UNITElive

The BBC and press freedom have this year come under repeated attacks from an emboldened and increasingly authoritarian Tory government.   In its most recent broadside against the BBC, a ‘senior…Read more…

Feb 19, 2020UNITElive

Nevada: Bump in the road for Sanders?

Feb 18, 2020By Eric Lee

Next Saturday (22 February) voters in Nevada will participate in caucuses to choose their 48 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Early voting has already begun. According to the latest…Read more…

Feb 18, 2020Eric Lee

Newham education chief slams government funding for ‘most vulnerable’ pupils

Feb 18, 2020By John's Labour blog

Hat tip Newham Recorder (NB Children in pic are not SEND)  “The council chief responsible for education has slammed the government over how it funds education for the “most vulnerable”.

Newham Council is proposing to change how it allo…Read more…

Feb 18, 2020John's Labour blog

How pension funds can invest responsibly

Feb 18, 2020By Dave Watson

In the last few months, I have completed three projects on Responsible Investment (also known as Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)) in the pensions sector. One a broad policy paper and two…Read more…

Feb 18, 2020Dave Watson

HSBC jobs cull

Feb 18, 2020By UNITElive

Urgent talks have been called for with HSBC bosses to discuss the ‘serious implications’ for UK staff after the bank announced it will axe 35,000 jobs globally, Unite said today (February 18).  …Read more…

Feb 18, 2020UNITElive

‘Like a scene from the Godfather’

Feb 18, 2020By UNITElive

A number of councillors are waging an unprovoked vendetta against employees of Attleborough town council in the historic Norfolk market town, Unite said today (February 18).   Unite, which…Read more…

Feb 18, 2020UNITElive

Why working people won’t be celebrating over a decade of lost wages

Feb 18, 2020By TUC blogs

Why has it taken the government twelve years to get wages back to pre-crisis levels?Read more…

Feb 18, 2020TUC blogs
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