Care workers to get £1,000 payment, and will receive the real living wage. But the union says more needs to be done for the whole care team
The article UNISON welcomes Welsh pay announcement for…Read more…
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Care workers to get £1,000 payment, and will receive the real living wage. But the union says more needs to be done for the whole care team
The article UNISON welcomes Welsh pay announcement for…Read more…
Strike action due to begin tomorrow (February 11) at Heathrow Airport, involving 400 workers employed by Menzies Aviation, has been called after the workers received a substantial pay offer. The…Read more…
UNISON inspired an initiative that will benefit both care home workers and residents
The article London borough introduces wide-ranging residential care charter first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Energy bills are rising, and the cost of basic goods and services are increasing at a rate not seen in many years. In response, another wealthy individual felt the need to lecture working people….Read more…
Solving the staff crisis has to be an urgent priority so patients can get the help they need.
The article UNISON reacts to latest NHS waiting times figures first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
While out today on work visit to residents in Camden I noticed this blue plaque about Kwame Nkrumah, who lived here NW5 while studying. Ghana was the first British colony in Africa to gain independence.
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Clarion Field Club
Harry Lowerison
Established 1895
Clarion Movement
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Early socialist nature club
Harry Lowerison instructed that they were to be the collective stewards of the people’s heritage.
In rules devised by Har…Read more…
National delegates set to meet in Brighton in June – for the first time since the pandemic
The article NEC meeting discusses motions for national conference first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
The best long-term solution for the bus industry is public ownership.Read more…
The Spanish government has signed into law a historic agreement with trade unionsRead more…
UNISON members set to take to the picket lines for a sixth time in continued fight against their employer’s fire and rehire tactics
The article Further industrial action at Sandwell Leisure Trust…Read more…
‘Support staff have stepped up to the plate as staff shortages in schools bite’
The article Children with special needs feeling the brunt of staffing shortages, UNISON survey reveals first appeared…Read more…
OVO owner, Stephen Fitzpatrick, was quizzed by MPs on the business select committee on Tuesday (February 8) about £17m furlough money paid to OVO, and payments and loans topping £40m, made from OVO…Read more…
Strike action that has affected the entire First Manchester bus service has ended after drivers accepted a vastly improved pay offer. The 300 plus drivers, who are members of Unite, have accepted an…Read more…
Emma Penman tells us how ASLEF successfully campaigned for the first ever Train Driver Apprenticeship for WalesRead more…
1974 Nurses Strike8 May 1974
Eleven COHSE nurses at Storthes Hall Hospital, Huddersfield, strike for one hourThree wards closed.
For the first time, nurses have taken industrial action — ‘The possibility’, (said the Guardian of 13 May) of strikes by n…Read more…
This is yet another government policy without substance.
The article NHS and social care reform ‘doomed’ without staff or funding to deliver, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Everybody wants to get back to normal, but Covid risks haven’t disappeared.
The article Abandoning Covid isolation rules early goes too far too soon, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Science journalist David Robson makes something very clear early on in this book: this is NOT going to be one of those books (like Rhonda Byrne’s best-selling The Secret) that insists you can…Read more…