A new campaign has been launched to eradicate pay and employment abuses of members of the Turkish and Kurdish communities in London during the pandemic. Unite the union has joined forces with…Read more…
Mitie ‘targeting low-paid cleaners’ at Heathrow
Low paid cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged on a previous agreement regarding training. The workers,…Read more…
‘Angry and frustrated’
Norwegian Air workers are ‘angry and frustrated’ after recent assurances from the company that they would receive the required redundancy payments if it failed proved to be entirely false. Instead,…Read more…
‘Stand up for care workers!’ is the passionate call from UNISON rally
Rally hears speakers from across the political spectrum, together with NGOs and celebrities, calling for social care to treated on a par with the NHS
The article ‘Stand up for care workers!’ is the…Read more…
Review: The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating, by Gary Taubes
Nearly twenty years ago, science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an article for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times reporting that some eminent scientists were beginning to re-think the…Read more…
Getting help with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
UNISON knows that some staff groups may have less employee voice within an organisation. This means they may not feel able to raise concerns with their employer about Personal Protective Equipment…Read more…
Celebrities back call for fair pay for care workers, says UNISON
Joanna Lumley and comedian Jo Brand want living wage for staff
The article Celebrities back call for fair pay for care workers, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Class and Social Economic Diversity in UK financial and professional services
It is fascinating to see that a new taskforce commissioned by HM Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and involving the City of London Corporation, has been established to boost socio-economic diversity…Read more…
Portsmouth council ‘recklessly putting workers and tenants at risk’
Portsmouth council has been accused of needlessly exposing its council housing tenants and outsourced workers to potential exposure to Covid-19. Unite has become increasingly alarmed that workers at…Read more…
Kennedy, not Johnson, led the US into the quagmire
This letter was published in the February 2021 issue of Literary Review. In his otherwise excellent review of The Tyranny of Merit (LR, December 2020 – January 2021), Andrew Adonis challenges…Read more…
Public services pay freeze – UNISON takes the fight to Tory MPs
Red wall Tories to learn the reality of working in public services through the pandemic
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Blog: Now is the time to end this national scandal
Care workers need a living wage and the country needs a national care service. It’s time to Pay Fair for Care
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View from my Ward
“There was a settlement here in the Saxon times and it used to have one of the largest Cistercian abbeys in England.
There is a wide mix of social housing, privately rented and home owners. Two of the best parks in East London, the Greenway path…Read more…
UNISON statement on the coup in Burma
The government must move quickly so that no UK company can do business with the military
The article UNISON statement on the coup in Burma first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Review: Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Führer, by Mark Felton
According to author Mark Felton, the people put in charge of keeping Adolf Hitler safe and well actually created the modern practice of body-guarding, sometimes known as ‘close…Read more…
End-of-year accounts for 2020 – branch audits
Information for honorary branch auditors, from UNISON head of audit John Nagle
The article End-of-year accounts for 2020 – branch audits first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
GE’s ‘financial torpedo’ on workers’ pensions
Nearly 3,000 workers at industrial conglomerate GE will be taking ‘a huge financial hit’ under proposals to close the defined benefit final salary pension scheme, Unite warned today (February 1)….Read more…
Blog: The moral case for vaccine access
I’ve written to the UK government urging it to end its opposition to making COVID vaccines available to all
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