We will make our own judgements on whether there is genuine levelling up for all workers
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‘Catastrophe for millions of people’
The cost of living crisis facing households across the UK is set to intensify drastically after the energy regulator Ofgem today (February 3) confirmed a unprecedented 54 per cent increase in the…Read more…
Levelling Up White Paper leaves low paid workers behind
Creating new and better jobs is important; but this Levelling Up White Paper has left those in low paid, insecure work behind.Read more…
Review: Guilty Men, by ‘Cato’
Every time I think that the news is awful, that things cannot be worse, I try to imagine what it was like in the spring of 1940. The Germans took basically all of western Europe…Read more…
Review: Guilty Men, by ‘Cato’
Every time I think that the news is awful, that things cannot be worse, I try to imagine what it was like in the spring of 1940. The Germans took basically all of western Europe…Read more…
InUNISON – Personal reflections of a first time delegate – LGBT+ conference 2021
Check out this personal report at the new website https://www.in-unison.org/
“The main message from it is the unequivocal and unanimous support for Trans rights. This was showed through the motions we passed which included support for Stonewall…Read more…
Construction workers pursue pay rise
Unions, led by Unite, the UK’s leading construction union, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in a bid to redress pay cuts…Read more…
Skills, schools and levelling up
Today the Department for Education trailed some of the major measures on education and skills that will be announced in the levelling up white paper imminently. There is little disagreement on the…Read more…
Government must step up and deliver the public transport system the North East deserves
There is a real link between public transport and a person’s ability to get on in life. But our local buses and trains are failing the communities they are supposed to serve.Read more…
‘It’s about time somebody took a stand’
This week refuse collection drivers employed by Coventry council have embarked on a new round of all-out strike action after council leaders went back on their pledge to make a fresh offer in the…Read more…
Speech To International Workers Action / Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Anti-Racist & Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters.
Speech to International Workers Action / Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and All Anti-Racist and Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters. Webinar February 2nd I’m Tony Burke the former Assistant General Secretary of…Read more…
Cambodia: Union busting sparks world-wide outrage
Chutzpah. There is no other word to describe the actions of the Naga World company, which runs hotel casinos in Cambodia. In a recent statement, the company boasted of its pro-union credentials:…Read more…
1st anniversary of the coup in Myanmar – TUC Statement
Picture from this BBC report on young people training to fight the vile military dictatorship in Myanmar. Below is TUC statement. It is good to see that Total are withdrawing their operations in Myanmar. Not so 14 years ago. I must find out which…Read more…
GB Terminals staff beat back fire and rehire
Strikes by Sheerness dock workers employed by GB Terminals have ended after the company backed down over fire and rehire plans, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (February 1). More than 30…Read more…
Bus strikes on cards over ‘pitiful’ pay offer
Bus passengers across London, Essex and Kent are facing severe disruption this spring, as bus drivers employed by Arriva ballot for industrial action following a ‘pitiful’ pay offer. Over 1,300…Read more…
UNISONActive has risen from the grave!
As a retired person suffering from fatigue as a result of advanced cancer, cancer medication and lymphoedema, I watch rather more television than I should.
I particularly enjoy Hammer horror films. I always like the way in which Dracula can be brought …Read more…
Gov’t mandatory NHS jab U-turn welcomed
Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said NHS staff can breathe a sigh of relief for the moment with the confirmation that health and social care secretary Sajid Javid was now…Read more…
Government must apologise to care staff over ‘no jab, no job’ rule, says UNISON
Thousands of dedicated and experienced staff have been lost to the sector.
The article Government must apologise to care staff over ‘no jab, no job’ rule, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
End-of-year accounts for 2021 – branch audits
Information for honorary branch auditors, from UNISON head of audit John Nagle
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