A lovely 5.2 mile walk today only 21 minutes from Forest Gate. We started off at the car park opposite Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge then walked along Chingford Plain towards Pole Hill. This is where TE Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) owned lan…Read more…
UNISON General Secretary election – a three horse race?
With a fortnight to go until the close of the nominating period in the UNISON General Secretary election three candidates have already secured enough nominations to be on the ballot papers which will be issued to members at the end of October. For thos…Read more…
Are you with them? – an appeal for solidarity donations
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers in north west on strike over failure to honour NHS pay award despite expensive rebranding (Hat tip UNISON)
UNISON members employed by the charity We Are With You (formerly Addaction) in Wigan…Read more…
LAPFF Backs Rio Tinto CEO Resignation over destruction of 46,000 year old Aboriginal caves
Press release from Local Authority Pension Fund Forum about the destruction of 46,000 year old Aboriginal caves in Australia by mining company Rio Tinto. I am Joint vice chair of LAPFF and am really pleased wit…Read more…
Early NHS pay rise call
NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, Unite said today (September 11). Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, also demanded…Read more…
‘Afraid to take sick leave’
Unite warns Norfolk’s Banham Poultry refusal to provide company sick pay increases risk of another outbreak
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Are you with them – an appeal for solidarity donations
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers in north west on strike over failure to honour NHS pay award despite expensive rebranding
The article Are you with them – an appeal for solidarity donations…Read more…
‘Disgraceful behaviour must stop’
In response to a minority of London black cab drivers heckling London mayor Sadiq Khan at a protest outside City Hall on Thursday (September 10), Unite’s London and Eastern cab section has…Read more…
Momentum grows for furlough scheme extension
Momentum is growing across the political spectrum for the government to row back on its intention to cease the job retention scheme (JRS) from November 1 and move to safeguard industry and business…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you the latest heroes and zeroes of the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest: HEROES Unite’s manufacturing members This week,…Read more…
“Ambitious five year strategy to tackle the housing crisis in Newham and ensure fairness”
“On Tuesday 8 September 2020 Newham Council Cabinet approved a proposal to consult residents on a draft Housing Delivery Strategy for the borough. The strategy sets out the scale of the housing challenge in Newham and the Council’s ambition…Read more…
‘Economic and environmental vandalism’
The decision by the government to overrule an independent planning inspector and deny planning permission to a new open cast coal mine in Highthorn, Northumberland has been branded as economic and…Read more…
Review: Kill the Führer: Section X and Operation Foxley, by Denis Rigden
The revelation in the late 1990s that the British had seriously considered assassinating Hitler was a journalistic bombshell. Very quickly, the National Archives (then the Public Records Office)…Read more…
Track and trace doomed to fail unless sick pay raised
Any attempts to control the coronavirus pandemic through test and trace efforts are doomed to fail unless statutory sick pay (SSP) is increased as a matter of urgency, the TUC has warned. A new poll…Read more…
UNISON conferences go virtual
Disabled and LGBT+ members are invited to remotely attend a series of events organised specifically for them – online and live
The article UNISON conferences go virtual first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
London Housing Associations branch nominates Christina McAnea as the next UNISON General Secretary
There was a really great online hustings and debate tonight with the executive committee members of the London Housing Association branch. 4 out of the 5 candidates (one of the 4 had someone speaking on their behalf) were able to join the committee on …Read more…
‘No more excuses’
Unite’s manufacturing members sent a loud and clear message today (September 9) that the government must step in and extend the furlough scheme or else risk a tsunami of job losses. Dozens of workers…Read more…
Gatwick job losses mount
A latest analysis of job losses at Gatwick Airport, by Unite demonstrates the devastation being wrought across the entire sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic and highlights the failure of the…Read more…
FSS SOS
A £1.5 billion contract to build Royal Navy fleet solid support ships (FSS) that has been opened to overseas shipyards must go to domestic firms if UK shipbuilding jobs are to be preserved, Unite has…Read more…
Covid smokescreen used to slash pay
Unite has launched an international campaign today (September 9) to stop the owners of the Manchester bus company Go North West from using Covid-19 as cover for making savage cuts to bus drivers’ pay…Read more…