London bus operator Metroline has until 10 May to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign on’ policy – or it will face a summer of strikes, Unite warned today (Friday 23 April).
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A weekend away in Norfolk
Off message but last weekend following English lockdown easing, we hired a self catering chalet in the Norfolk broads and had 2 marvellous days walking in the local countryside. It was great to wake up somewhere different. We even went out on Sat…Read more…
Manifesto 2021 – National Recovery Plan
After more than two years of consultation and engagement, it was good to see the Scottish Labour election manifesto launched today. I have been working part-time managing the process leading up to…Read more…
Secret shame of Crossrail’s way to boost profits
Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore previous rules and boost their profits by…Read more…
Blog: Friends with benefits
Concern over the use of lobbying continues to grow with this government. Reform is needed now and the sleaze must stop
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‘It’s time to be bold’
I am a fighter and I am standing for our people. I was born and raised in the Tees Valley, worked as a retail worker, youth worker and went on to start a charity here. It is the place that I love and…Read more…
Urgent action needed to address chronic undersupply of NHS staff
A lack of planning for a global pandemic left the UK and the NHS exposed like never before
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Kyrgyzstan: One step forward, two steps back
The workers of Kyrgyzstan have had very little experience of trade unionism. Under tsarist rule, unions were generally not tolerated. The Bolshevik revolution allowed unions to exist — on paper. But…Read more…
Our champions of champions
UNISON’s Local Service Champions awards celebrate the invaluable contribution local authority staff make to our lives
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Lola for Kent Police Crime Commissioner Dialogue call – 11am Saturday 24 April
Greater London UNISON Labour Link are supporting this phone bank on Saturday. If you are a UNISON and Labour Party member please join this session.
“Dear all please join me this Saturday at 11am for phone banking dialogue session. I’m the Labou…Read more…
JDE ‘acting like employer from Victorian times’
Reports that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban, starting on May 1, in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute has sparked…Read more…
Dyson tax text scandal
Commenting on reports of texts between Boris Johnson and James Dyson in March 2020, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said, “It is no surprise that Dyson’s ultimately aborted efforts to…Read more…
UNISON responds to George Floyd’s murder case
“Others who abuse their power must be held to account before the law”
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ONS Covid blood test shows Jab “worked”
I have been taking part in in a regular survey by the University of Oxford/Office for National Statistics (ONS). I had been randomly selected for this survey. Since October 2020, every 4 weeks, I have had a nurse visit my home for me to have Covid Swab…Read more…
‘JDE can’t say they’re struggling’
Unite members at Jacob Douwe Egberts have voted for industrial action after the company has decided to go down the route of fire and rehire – where workers are forced to sign up to a new…Read more…
‘Slap in the face to long-serving workforce’
Unite is committed to fight to save as many jobs as possible, following the announcement that Argos intends to close its distribution centre in Bridgwater, Somerset. Unite understands that around 230…Read more…
NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating…Read more…
‘Year of jobs destruction’
The coronavirus pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll on the jobs market, with about 800,000 people having lost their jobs since March last year, new figures reveal. The Office for National…Read more…
Proposed job cuts at Cadent Gas are irresponsible and unnecessary
Company must reconsider job loss plans
The article Proposed job cuts at Cadent Gas are irresponsible and unnecessary first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Election time – make sure you’re ready to vote for your NEC
With democracy at the heart of everything UNISON does, general secretary stresses that voting for the next NEC ‘only takes a few minutes’
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