SEFTON WILLIAMS LECTURE Given by Ken Neumann, former Canadian National Director of the United Steelworkers (USW) It is truly an honour to be here, receiving the Sefton Williams award and presenting…Read more…
Fighting for the NHS: Your London UNISON Health campaign team
On Monday UNISON Health Conference starts and next Thursday 28 April ballot papers will start to drop through the home letter boxes of all UNISON members. It is the start of our biannual National Service Group Executive (SGE) elections.
Here in L…Read more…
Veolia workers in strike vote
Members of Unite employed by waste company Veolia and working at the Stanlow refinery in Cheshire are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay. Multinational giant Veolia is…Read more…
Unite in Airbus pay victory
Over 3,000 workers employed by Airbus at its factories in Broughton in North Wales and Filton in Gloucestershire have accepted an improved pay offer bringing a long-running dispute to a close. The…Read more…
Solidarity support for Clark’s workers
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ONEUNISON – Taking on the Cost of Living Crisis
Check out this new campaigning website by UNISON activists which was launched this week alongside a survey of members on the cost of living crisis.
“ONEUNISON is a group of UNISON activists who are focusing on the real issues that matter to membe…Read more…
First Glasgow workers vote to strike
Unite the union has today (April 21) confirmed that dozens of workers employed by First Glasgow have voted overwhelmingly to strike in a dispute over pay. The 60 First Glasgow workers, including bus…Read more…
Oxford MINI strikes off
Strikes by warehouse workers based at Oxford’s MINI plant have been postponed after their employer, Rudolph & Hellman, tabled a new pay offer. Unite said strikes scheduled for 26 and 28 April and…Read more…
UNISON slates government over school funding shortages
Research reveals that many headteachers in primary and secondary schools in England are having to cut staff, IT equipment, trips and more as the funding crisis bites
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UNISON welcomes asbestos report
Parliamentary work and pensions committee calls for a 40-year deadline for the safe removal of all asbestos in public buildings
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Shop at a Co-op with your blue membership card? Look out for your ballot and vote #YesToMotion9 🗳️
(as a regular shopper at the co-op, co-operative party member and a proud Labour and Co-op Candidate in the local Council elections next month you can hazard a guess which way I will be voting on motion 9) Dear John, Do you regularly shop …Read more…
Unions must fight racist Government policy
The Tory government’s plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda is, of course, the most appalling racist dog whistle imaginable in the run-up to the May local elections.It almost certainly isn’t intended that this will ever actually happen, it is a device t…Read more…
GSK workers vote to strike – for the first time ever
For the first time in the history of pharmaceutical giant GSK, UK workers have voted for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The workers, members of Unite the union, recorded an 86 per cent yes…Read more…
County Durham car factory strikes intensify
Pay strikes at car bearing manufacturers NSK Bearings and AKS Precision Ball in Peterlee, County Durham, have intensified as workers step up their fight for a fair pay rise. Around 200 workers,…Read more…
TfL and London Underground workers in strike vote
Over 1,500 members of Unite, employed at Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground (LU) are to be balloted for industrial action in a dispute over attacks on their pensions. Unite’s members…Read more…
Hospital staff protest against planned closure of nurseries
Without alternative, affordable childcare provision, health workers in South London could be forced out of the NHS, says UNISON
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Blog: Deal to send refugees to Rwanda is a ‘cruel trick’
UNISON writes to all MPs asking them to take a stand for decency against a policy that shows a government with no moral compass
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One week, all-out strike under way at University of Dundee
The strike started as employers are urged to “show some commitment to their loyal, low paid staff”
The article One week, all-out strike under way at University of Dundee first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Join UNISON to take action on the cost of living crisis
The country is in the middle of a massive cost of living crisis and the government is failing to act – so join us in June to get the message across
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Free legal support for UNISON members and their families
“As a member of UNISON Greater London, you and your family have access to specialist legal advice and representation from the UK’s leading trade union law firm, Thompsons Solicitors.Over the past year, Thompsons has secured just under £5 million…Read more…