easyJet’s boundless appetite for shareholder profits over the interests of their loyal workforce and passengers knows no bounds. On Monday (August 18), the airliner confirmed plans to close regional…Read more…
British Airways heading for ‘winter of discontent’
British Airways is heading for months of industrial unrest unless it steps back from proposals which will effectively force thousands of workers onto punitive and insecure zero hours-type contracts….Read more…
‘Bad housing kills’: How coronavirus overwhelmed the UK’s most overcrowded community
A good article in The Independent on Sunday. I have a few factual quibbles about the story, especially since I ranted on and on to the journalist about all the things which we are achieving in Newham. We also need the Government to do more…Read more…
UNISON wins Access to Work victory
Union pressure sees government make changes to scheme to help disabled people working from home in the pandemic
The article UNISON wins Access to Work victory first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL) must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said today (August 19). Unite has discovered that the…Read more…
Give disabled people the right to work from home after Covid-19, says UNISON
Survey shows majority are more productive home working but employers not allowing them
The article Give disabled people the right to work from home after Covid-19, says UNISON first appeared on…Read more…
“Because Black disabled lives matter”
Hat tip UNISON blog: Picture of Peter, my fellow executive member of Greater London Housing Association. Hopefully will see him at our zoom meeting tomorrow evening.
“UNISON activists Veronica Price-Job and Peter Daley look at how the…Read more…
New health body must be ‘fit for purpose’, says UNISON
Sara Gorton says National Institute for Health Protection must deal with Covid-19 crisis and what lies beyond
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‘Jobs for the boys and girls’?
The government has today (August 18) officially announced plans to axe Public Health England (PHE) and replace the body with a new agency, after the plans were leaked to the media at the weekend. PHE…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL), the UK’s largest bus and coach builder, must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said…Read more…
General secretary election: candidates at meetings
Any invitations to attend real or virtual meetings, as part of UNISON’s general secretary elections, must include all candidates
The article General secretary election: candidates at meetings first…Read more…
Call To Arms – Daily Mirror Article On CSEU Proposals To Bring Forward Spending Plans
The Labour leadership should be accountable to the Party members
The letter which David Evans, Labour Party General Secretary has sent to CLPs shows the anti-democratic intent of the current … MoreRead more…
Aldersbrook Estate Walkabout
This afternoon my colleague Cllr Mohammed and I took part in an inspection with residents and officers in our estate in Aldersbrook, Redbridge. I understand that this area used to be part of Newham (East Ham) but after boundary changes it was transferr…Read more…
Review: It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
I first read this book around 50 years ago and have read it several times since. When it was reissued in the late 1960s, the publisher touted it as being especially relevant to the political…Read more…
Council workers reject ‘poverty pay’ offer
About 100,000 council workers, members of Unite the union, have overwhelmingly rejected in a consultative ballot a pay and conditions offer for 2020/1 which amounts to just £1.83 a day. But Unite…Read more…
PHE lined up to be ‘the fall guy’
Public Health England (PHE) and its dedicated staff are being lined up as ‘the fall guy’ for ministers’ bungling over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Unite said today (August 17). Unite,…Read more…
‘Huge kick in the teeth’
One of Glasgow’s most prestigious restaurants has come under fire from staff who have said they’ve been badly treated during the coronavirus pandemic. Unite is supporting staff members of The Ivy…Read more…
Working from home, working in fear
[There is a] religious element [in attitudes toward work]: the idea that dutiful submission even to meaningless work under another’s authority is a form of moral self-discipline that makes you a better person.
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Dave Prentis seeks to enlist MPs in jobs row with British Gas
UNISON general secretary calls the energy company’s move to dismiss its entire workforce and cease union recognition ‘utterly disgraceful’
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