This young workers month, let’s listen and support one of the fastest growing groups of our membership and ensure they don’t pay the price of the pandemic
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UNISON welcomes better health and safety protection for zero-hours workers
High Court rules that zero-hours workers should have the same protection as others
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Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick strikes continue
Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick in Lancashire will be hit with a second and third wave of targeted strikes over plans to offshore the production of Trent jet engine blades to Singapore with the loss of 350…Read more…
“Opinion: Unison could soon have a female general secretary – about time, too”
The leadership race you may have missed that could have huge consequences for UK workers
Christina McAnea leads the race to become leader of Britain’s biggest union, one representing more than a million people in healthcare, social care, education and …Read more…
A Newham Branch of the Labour Housing Group?
I have been a member of the Labour Housing Group (LHG) for many years. For almost as long I have been talking about seeing if we could set up a borough wide branch of the LHG in Newham.
On its website the LHG describes its role as “The…Read more…
Unions stand up to BHP and exploitative mining companies
Today I took part in as a pension trustee in an online asset owner briefing by trade unions (IndustriALL Global Union) who organise workers in Columbia, Chile and Australia employed (directly or indirectly) by the multinational mining …Read more…
‘Clapping doesn’t pay the bills’
Drivers and passenger assistants, who take disabled children to and from school in Hackney, have voted unanimously to strike over the failure of the council to make a one-off £500 Covid-19 payment…Read more…
Carillion latest
The announcement today (November 13) by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog that senior executives of Carillion ‘mislead’ the markets and acted ‘recklessly’ should result in the guilty…Read more…
Politics can‘t interfere in the approval of PPE, warns UNISON
Political pressure to approve substandard PPE does not bode well for HSE independence once the UK finally leaves the safety of the EU, says the union
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‘We must not repeat PPE fiasco’ with vaccine
The country’s leading manufacturing union, Unite, has today (November 13) urged the prime minister to appoint a cabinet minister to bring urgently needed coordination to the production and…Read more…
‘Vital victory for entire labour movement’
The government has been forced to confirm that workers taking lawful industrial action have a right to picket their workplace during the Covid-19 lockdown. In doing so they have vetoed the actions of…Read more…
‘The only way we will get through this is if we help each other’
At a time when hunger and want have soared in the UK and across globe amid the coronavirus pandemic, never has reaching out to our communities been more important. That’s why Unite has set up its…Read more…
Government must end poverty pay for care staff, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says overwhelming public support for wage rise for social care workers
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Benchmarking our digital organising
How we adapt union organising to fit a digital-first world is a critical question for unions. Even before the pandemic we were seeing increasing organising challenges from fragmented workplaces and…Read more…
“The Fight for Democracy in Sheffield” by Olivia Brake (now Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam)
Hat tip to Newham for Change. There will be a referendum next May 2021 (postponed by Covid) the same time as Newham will also hold one on changing to a committee model.
“In 2017 I was elected Deputy Leader of Sheffield Council on a tic…Read more…
BA cargo workers in fire and rehire dispute
British Airways is facing significant disruption in its cargo handling business in the run up to Christmas as members of Unite prepare to ballot for industrial action. The dispute is a result of…Read more…
Solidarity for Barnoldswick
Rolls-Royce workers in Barnoldswick continue their strike action, fighting for their jobs, communities and the legacy of an historic plant that is the birthplace of the jet engine. Unite assistant…Read more…
Unite statement on Julian Assange
Unite welcomes the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) condemnation of the detention of Julian Assange pending his extradition proceedings. We applaud the NUJ’s campaign to draw to broad…Read more…
Government must urgently tackle funding problems for struggling councils, says UNISON
Council workers should not pay the price for budget problems
The article Government must urgently tackle funding problems for struggling councils, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Crisis of hunger
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a crisis of hunger, as new figures from the Trussell Trust food bank network show a surge in demand for food parcels since the pandemic began. The latest…Read more…