Unite has today (July 24) given a cautious welcome to the Talent Retention Scheme (TRS) designed to be a ‘one stop portal’ where the industry’s workforce and employers can be matched together….Read more…
‘Incomprehensible’ health visitor and school nurse job losses amid pandemic
The threat to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, has been branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by Unite today (July 24). Harrogate and District…Read more…
More lessons from the pandemic – Scottish Care Service
Today, the Jimmy Reid Foundation has published the second in their series of papers on ‘Reconstructing Scotland after COVID-19’. As with the first paper, they seek to put forward policies that…Read more…
Don’t feed the trolls!
I recently broke my own rule, by being drawn into an argument with someone I barely know on social media (which is invariably a waste of time). This was an individual who took issue with my critical comments on correspondence published online by some L…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you a new list of heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. HEROES Unite hospitality members People working in the…Read more…
Contagion
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery
Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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A red-button blockbuster
The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 1985) and woven into them the fictional…Read more…
Review: The Undiscovered Country, by Aidan McQuade
There is a sub-genre of crime fiction that is set in war-time. And most often the war is the Second World War. Len Deighton’s SS-GB, Robert Harris’ Fatherland and Philip Kerr’s…Read more…
Chad Green ASB Walkabout
Today I went on my first post lock down “walkabout” around Chad Green in Plaistow North Ward with local ward Councillor Daniel Lee-Phakoe, Council officers, local Police and Deputy Housing Cabinet member, Cllr Shaban Mohammed.
There has been a number …Read more…
‘We need our union to be stronger than ever’ Dave Prentis tells NEC
General secretary says UNISON members won’t ‘carry the can’ for another economic crisis
The article ‘We need our union to be stronger than ever’ Dave Prentis tells NEC first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
‘No time for dithering’
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has been urged by Unite to get out his cheque book to plug the hole in Nottingham city council’s finances due to coronavirus and avoid more than 150 posts being…Read more…
Blog: Will the elderly be expected to pay for COVID-19?
Rosie MacGregor, the chair of UNISON’s national retired members’ committee, warns that older people may face further challenges to their well-being post-COVID-19
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‘Serious mistake’
Unite has warned Unilever that plans to sell off its £2.75 billion a year tea business, reiterated today (July 23) during the company’s announcement of its half-yearly financial performance, are a…Read more…
Women face workplace sexism at home
With the majority of office workers working from home since lockdown came into force in March, you’d think that the office-based sexism prevalent in far too many workplaces may have subsided in the…Read more…
More cleaners needed to make English schools safe for return of pupils and staff, says UNISON
Jon Richards calls on government to provide schools with funds to increase cleaning services
The article More cleaners needed to make English schools safe for return of pupils and staff, says…Read more…
In Leicester and beyond, migrant workers are being exploited
Migrant workers are essential to the UK economy but many are vulnerable to exploitation.Read more…
We need bold action to avoid mass unemployment
Labour market figures show an unemployment crisis is looming. We need decisive government action to avoid it.Read more…
How to use webinars to reach workers and win change
Webinars have become essential tools for union organisers and trainers during lockdown.Read more…
The public sector pay rise is long overdue – but many workers are still left out
After years of pay cuts, a public sector pay rise was needed. But the government’s announcement still leaves much to be desired.Read more…
Review: I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism, by A.M. Gittlitz
This is a wonderful book. People will read it because J. Posadas and the Trotskyist sect he led for decades were, for want of a better phrase, completely bonkers. A proponent of UFOlogy,…Read more…