Vaccine priority must be extended to nursery and school staff
The article Close nurseries to all except vulnerable and key-worker children first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Affordable housing and the impact on recruitment and retention of key workers
UNISON has commissioned research into the housing issues facing workers across public services in the UK
The article Affordable housing and the impact on recruitment and retention of key workers…Read more…
UK Covid Lockdown as 4 January 2020
(As BBC website) “England is going into lockdown to try to prevent the NHS from becoming overwhelmed by a surge in coronavirus cases.Primary and secondary schools will close to almost all pupils, and people will be instructed to stay at home.Nort…Read more…
Restrictions tough but necessary for the sake of the NHS
Government should have acted sooner but we must all do our bit
The article Restrictions tough but necessary for the sake of the NHS first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘It’s your voice we want to hear’
Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelings, recollections, triumphs and losses,…Read more…
McCluskey: PM now has nowhere to hide
Commenting on the vote by MPs (held on Wednesday, December 30) to pass the deal that will now govern the trading arrangements by the UK and the European Union, the general secretary of the country’s…Read more…
Govt must ‘get a grip’ says Unite
Hard-pressed, heroic NHS staff continuing to battle the covid-19 crisis are being badly let down by a government which, 10 months into this crisis, is still failing to ensure that the workforce is…Read more…
West Ham, Stratford & Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park walk
Picture collage from yesterdays lockdown “3 Park walk”. First was West Ham Park (we had coffee sitting on the bench remembering local Spanish Civil War International Brigader and poet, David Marshall) then Stratford Park (check out the Senso…Read more…
UNISON COVID-19 response fund – there for you
(A reminder during these dreadful times)
Members experiencing financial and emotional difficulties can contact our welfare charity, There for You, which provides a confidential advice and support service for members and their dependants.COVID-19…Read more…
Ministers must delay school reopening by a fortnight, says UNISON
Goverment must act immediately for primary schools
The article Ministers must delay school reopening by a fortnight, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
An Awful New Year Day Calamity
This morning my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth and I, went to West Ham Cemetery to lay some flowers at the memorial to 26 boys who died in a fire exactly 131 years ago. The boys lived in a massive workhouse for children nearby in Forest …Read more…
Top 10 most read UniteLive articles of the year
On New Year’s Day today (January 1), UniteLive highlights our most read articles of 2020 — and what a year it’s been. From holding bad employers to account, to likewise calling out…Read more…
Video of the year – Who are the real heroes?
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from May, when Unite first began its campaign to ensure a decent pay rise for…Read more…
‘Now I can open the curtains’
Sometimes it take a full-blown crisis to reveal just how badly our institutions are failing those who need them most. First introduced in 2013, Universal Credit, the Tory government’s flagship…Read more…
Looking back – and forward – with hope
This could have been the worst year just gone. It wasn’t just the global pandemic which took my father’s life. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and nearly dying of sepsis in 2019 I was told in 2020 that my cancer was now advanced and th…Read more…