Dear John (4000 Labour members in Newham would have received this email on 26 September) Newham Labour Group’s Working Party are conducting a survey on …Read more…
Imagining what happens next in the UNISON General Secretary election
Imagine this. Imagine that there were an election for General Secretary of UNISON at the point at which the long serving incumbent General Secretary was retiring, and that a candidate supported by most of his previous supporters, promised co…Read more…
Blog: Ten years of the Equality Act and still fighting
UNISON disabled and LGBT+ activist Louise Ashworth looks back at 10 years of the Equality Act
The article Blog: Ten years of the Equality Act and still fighting first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Air Traffic Control in the Highlands and Islands.
The public procurement of cutting edge technology is risky at the best of times. For a small public sector airport company to embark on such a programme during a pandemic, which is devastating the…Read more…
Mass unemployment still looms
The Job Support Scheme measures announced on September 24 will provide some relief for some workers but more will need to be done to prevent a mass unemployment crisis.
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‘Morally repugnant’
A number of Cambridge University colleges, which are targeting some of their lowest paid employees for the jobs’ axe as they juggle their Covid-19 finances, have been urged to have an urgent rethink…Read more…
Chaos looms as drivers slam govt over ports paperwork Brexit shambles
Angry lorry drivers have accused government minister Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of ‘blame shifting’ as he tells them to prepare paperwork for ports post-Brexit – an impossible…Read more…
‘We need a cohort of resources’
As previously reported on UNITElive Danny spent nine days in Kingston Hospital, Surrey, at the end of March this year. Danny had endured the full range of the virus’ symptoms at home for eight days….Read more…
‘Penny pinching’
‘Inadequate’ sick pay and worker bus fare rises at the coronavirus-hit Bernard Matthews’ turkey processing factory in Suffolk increase the risk of further Covid-19 transmissions, Unite said today…Read more…
Review: London Diary, by Quentin Reynolds
One thing I love about reading older books is that often they were intended to be read immediately, to change the way people thought, and were not aimed at posterity. This is that kind of…Read more…
‘All they’ve done is ignite a toxic debate’
UNISON says the government’s response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation is a missed opportunity and has, once again, let down the trans community
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Migration Advisory Committee report exposes government’s muddled immigration plan
The sector needs to be properly funded and wages increased
The article Migration Advisory Committee report exposes government’s muddled immigration plan first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
U.S. unions warn Trump: Don’t even think about it
A few days ago, the president of the AFL-CIO (the US’s national trade union centre) issued a powerful statement. The federation “categorically rejects all threats to the peaceful transition of power”…Read more…
“Don’t be bullied by British Gas”
Don’t just get angry British Gas workers – get organised & fight
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Rolls-Royce plant ‘heart and soul’ of local jobs
Members of Unite have begun to ballot for industrial action as part of a campaign to save the historic Rolls-Royce plant at Barnoldswick in Lancashire. The iconic site, which is the cradle of the jet…Read more…
Taking UNISON’s demands to the Treasury
UNISON makes submission to the government’s comprehensive spending review
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‘Wake up call’ for rogue employers
A legal case launched by Unite could prove to be a wake up call for rogue employers the union has claimed today (September 29). An employment tribunal will be asked to consider the case of a member…Read more…
Unite victory on remote sign-on
Unite, the union which represents over 20,000 bus drivers in London, has secured a major victory in its campaign against the introduction of highly controversial remote sign-on operating procedures….Read more…
‘Lifetime skills guarantee’ won’t make up for mass unemployment
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s plans for expanding vocational training announced today (September 29) will not reverse the impact of skyrocketing levels of unemployment on the horizon amid the…Read more…
Petition launches to get COVID tests for all education staff
Westminster government’s testing priority list only includes ‘teachers’ for education in England, forgetting the rest of the education team
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