Together with the GMB and Unite, the move comes after the council vowed to end the contract with Sandwell Leisure Trust in the wake of its decision to fire and rehire all staff
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TUC demo: Seven bonus reasons to get off the sofa and go
A sideways glance at some of the less obvious reasons why you and your friends should fight for a solution to the cost of living crisis at the big national TUC demos on 18 June
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Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech that delivers nothing
The Tories in Westminster won’t focus on what needs to be done to tackle the cost of living crisis, but on ‘the wrong things and the wrong time’
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Relaxing Weekend next to Dungeness
After election day (Thursday), the “count” (Friday) and my Councillor surgery (Saturday morning) Gill and I went off for a last minute weekend break. We had not been to this part of the Kent coast before and did not quite realise how close it wa…Read more…
MINI plant warehouse workers to strike
Strikes by warehouse workers based at Oxford’s MINI plant will resume after a pay offer was overwhelmingly rejected by the workforce, Unite, said today. The members voted by 91 per cent to reject the…Read more…
Scottish local authorities warned over strikes
Unite the union has today (May 9) called on all new council leaders at Scottish local authorities to take immediate action to improve pay, or see strikes this summer. The trade union confirmed that…Read more…
‘Working people cannot afford 12 more years of decline’
After Labour’s success at the polls last week, deputy leader Angela Rayner talks exclusively to UNISON about her upbringing and what is really needed to fix the cost of living crisis
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Review: The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel
Having read (and loved) Sea of Tranquility I was surprised to discover the same characters in this earlier book by Emily St. John Mandel. I may be reading the books in the wrong order, but…Read more…
Review: The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel
Having read (and loved) Sea of Tranquility I was surprised to discover the same characters in this earlier book by Emily St. John Mandel. I may be reading the books in the wrong order, but…Read more…
West Ham Ward declaration 2022
After a long day yesterday, Charlene, John Whitworth and myself were re-elected as Labour Councillors to Newham Council.
A huge honour and privilege. Many thanks to residents for voting for us so overwhelmingly and to ward activists for hel…Read more…
Restore free testing in schools or risk SATs disruption, warns UNISON
National testing in English primary schools this year could be severely affected because of Covid absences, according to concerns raised in a UNISON survey released today (Friday). More than seven in…Read more…
Fair tips legislation scrapped?
Unite has slammed the government for reportedly scrapping plans to introduce fair tips legislation, first promised by then-business secretary Sajid Javid nearly six years ago. After Javid’s…Read more…
‘No more soundbites or bandwagons’
Commenting on the local election results in England, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said on Friday (May 6), “Politicians of all parties should stop fighting for soundbites and get on with the…Read more…
UNISON police staff members vote to accept pay offer
First digital ballot in the sector helps to produce higher turnout
The article UNISON police staff members vote to accept pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
If Johnson’s Rwanda plan for asylum seekers is legal, why is he afraid to defend it in court? | Mark Serwotka
Refugees – and civil servants who’ll have to effect this cruel policy – will both suffer. That’s why proper scrutiny is essentialMark Serwotka is general secretary of the Public and Commercial…Read more…
Interest rate rise ‘will add to pain’ felt by ordinary families
Unite today (May 5) warned that yet another interest rate rise – the fourth consecutive rise in a row since December – will add to the financial pressure facing millions of ordinary families amid an…Read more…
How can Labour win?
Today I have completed a course of palliative radiotherapy on the secondary tumour in my upper right arm. I hope not only that this will reduce the pain I have been experiencing, but also that comrades will accept this as a good reason not to h…Read more…
Blog: Why attacks on legal abortion are a trade union matter
A leaked opinion from the US supreme court has suggested that abortion there could be severely limited. Anne McVicker, chair of national women’s committee, and Liz Wheatley, chair of the…Read more…
Vote Labour (and co-operative) May 5
Vote Labour – and when there are joint candidates – Vote Labour and Co-operative (our sister socialist party)
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How to hit the Tories in the Ballot Box
Great post by UNISON General Secretary Christina McAnea
“Political leaders of all parties will be watching nervously to see how well their candidates do in this week’s local elections.
Results often show how happy or unhappy people are with the…Read more…