The six days of strike action by 12 outsourced drivers in the pay injustice dispute that could have hit deliveries to about 100 Sainsbury’s stores in London and the south east have been suspended,…Read more…
Gigafactory plans welcomed
Commenting on BritishVolt’s announcement today (December 11) that it plans to invest £2.6bn in an electric vehicle battery plant in Wansbeck, Northumberland, which coincided with a visit by prime…Read more…
BA cargo workers Christmas strike
Cargo workers employed by British Airways at Heathrow airport have today (December 11) announced that they will take nine days of strike action beginning on Christmas Day. On Monday (December 7) the…Read more…
Heathrow strike latest
Workers at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is imposing on them through a controversial fire and…Read more…
Now is the time to respect human and trade unions rights in Turkey
On the UN’s Human Rights Day, we are calling for human and trade union rights, along with democratic freedoms, to be respected in Turkey.Read more…
Trade unions have a crucial role in the struggle for race equality
The TUC’s new anti-racist taskforce will build on the work of the past two decades to map out the actions needed today to tackle unequal outcomes and keep race on the agenda.Read more…
Change is coming. Why I’m chairing the TUC’s new anti-racism task force
Trade unions are committed to eradicating the prejudice and discrimination and disadvantage that continue to deny many Black workers the opportunity to secure decent jobs and careers regardless of…Read more…
No industrial dispute will ever be lost in future – it will just lead to an “Australia-style” deal…
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) will realise that you are unlikely to read here any praise of the Tory Government – but anyone would have to admire the Prime Minister’s imaginative development of the English language.
Appare…Read more…
UNISON salutes team that kept up abortion access in lockdown
Union-sponsored annual nursing team award goes to nurses who helped ensure women had access to abortion services during COVID-19
The article UNISON salutes team that kept up abortion access in…Read more…
Heathrow strike and solidarity!
The strike by Heathrow airport workers is ramping up with three more days of action next week, on December 14, 17 and 18. Ahead of it we thought it would be nice to collate some of the messages of…Read more…
‘Crispmas’ saved!
As part of the season of goodwill, Unite has delayed launching strike action on the Walkers Pepsico contract operated by Eddie Stobart Ltd from its Warrington depot. Lorry drivers on the contract…Read more…
Lola for Labour Kent Police & Crime Commissioner May 2021
I was pleased to see that my UNISON branch comrade Lola Oyewusi has been selected by the Labour Party to be their candidate to be the next Kent Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) in the elections in May 2021.
Lola understands that she will be…Read more…
New Times or new politics?
Open Labour have published an interesting little pamphlet, which I intend to read more fully, advocating what it calls a “progressive foreign policy”.To be precise it is titled “A Progressive Foreign Policy for New Times”. Yes, that’s right “New Times”…Read more…
‘Safety when it suits’
DHL has been told it ‘must improve’ coronavirus safety procedures for drivers working on its Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) contract in Halewood, Liverpool, Unite said today (December 10). Unite, which…Read more…
‘We’ll fight the public sector pay freeze’
UNISON makes plans to fight the public sector pay freeze and pays tribute to Dave Prentis at his final NEC meeting before retirement
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission ‘treating staff appallingly’
The government must intervene on behalf of Commonwealth War Grave Commission (CWGC) staff serving overseas, who are facing ‘halved incomes’ due to Brexit contract changes, Unite said today (December…Read more…
Hayes Cottage Hospital – England’s Gdansk
Hayes Cottage Hospital Occupation and work-inCOHSE & NUPERead more…