Today, as Chair of UNISON London Regional Labour Link Committee, I chaired our London Forum of UNISON Labour Link. Which took place in the UNISON Centre in Camden. It was great to be back in the centre after two long years, for a in person (and v…Read more…
UNISON condemns ‘shameful’ P&O Ferries action
General secretary calls for enforceable charter of employment rights and an end to ‘fire and hire’ culture
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Gatwick pay victory
The 500-strong ground handling workers employed by logistics giant DHL, on the easyJet contract at Gatwick Airport, have secured a 10 per cent pay increase and the introduction of sick pay. The…Read more…
Bank of England hikes interest rates amid soaring inflation
The Bank of England has today (March 17) raised interest rates for the third time in a row, from 0.5 per cent to 0.75 per cent – a move that Unite has warned will further squeeze household finances…Read more…
Somerset decision risks Covid care home spread, says UNISON
No one with Covid should be going in to work.
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‘Shocking move’ from P&O Ferries
Unite has expressed its shock at the decision by P&O Ferries to dismiss its entire UK seafaring workforce of 800 crew members to replace them with cheaper labour. The ferry operator’s…Read more…
Unions urge education secretary to extend free COVID testing
No 10’s Living with COVID plan ‘is likely to result in further illness and disruption to face-to-face education’
The article Unions urge education secretary to extend free COVID testing first…Read more…
‘Tired and broken’
With nearly all Covid restrictions lifted last month, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the pandemic had magically vanished overnight. But the latest figures show that Covid cases are on the rise…Read more…
A setback for bigotry
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, available at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
This concerns a case which was one of the first in which an employment tribunal had to consider the interactio…Read more…
Fixing broken social care system would be best tribute to staff, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says day of remembrance must be catalyst for positive change
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LAPFF Roundtable on Socio-Economic Diversity: 23 March
Invitation: LAPFF Roundtable on Socio-Economic Diversity: 23 March @ 3pm (f you are an LGPS officer, pension committee or board member or an advisor please join us next week) Dear LAPFF members, I am writing to you to remind you of the Round…Read more…
Review: How Civil Wars Start – And How to Stop Them, by Barbara F. Walter
Barbara Walter’s book has a promising beginning. An academic who has been studying civil wars for some time now, she tries to come up with an explanation for why civil wars happen. A lot of…Read more…
NEC reiterates condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Meeting hears that UNISON ‘will continue to work with the international trade union movement to offer support to Ukraine’
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Care connect learning – when UNISON lost a lot of money…
Here’s yet another extract from my memoirs, which are going for a song at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
This refers to my first (of seven) term of office on the National Executive Council (NEC) of …Read more…
DSA needs to learn the lessons of SDS
Sixty years ago, the United States was still in the grip of the McCarthy era. The Attorney General would regularly update his list of “subversive” organisations. Communists and other…Read more…
Putin’s UNISON “useful idiots” blames the military invasion of Ukraine on NATO and don’t support sanctions against apartheid or fascist regimes
Blog post title is mine but please check out and share this really important expose of the vile decisions currently been made in our name by the extremist toy town revolutionaries who currently dominate our NEC and are doing their best to destr…Read more…
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‘We can’t afford to live’
Ahead of the spring statement on Wednesday, March 23, members of Unite Community will travel to Rishi Sunak’s Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire to urge him to do a lot more to help the UK’s…Read more…
Financial Conduct Authority staff in strike vote
Employees working across the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today (March 15) served notice to begin a ballot on taking industrial action against cuts to their pay and conditions. Unite, the…Read more…
‘Shoulder to shoulder’
Dozens of Unite activists, representing thousands of refuse workers from across the country, stood shoulder-to-shoulder with shop steward, Peter Randle in Birmingham today (March 15). He has been…Read more…