Leicester Citybus drivers are at least £45 a week better off – £2,450 a year – thanks to a pay rise won by their union, Unite said today (June 17). A two-year deal will see wages rise by…Read more…
Couldn’t buy blueberries
I couldn’t go into John Lewis. Not from that door. The door fromthe Square, Cavendish Square. It was the menswear that did it.Scarves. Hankies. That sweater you liked and the blue shirt. No matterthe…Read more…
Unite investigates profiteering
If you believed what the likes of prime minister Boris Johnson and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey had to say, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the cost of living crisis is all…Read more…
‘Time to demand profit restraint’
When both the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and prime minister Boris Johnson said recently that workers shouldn’t ask for pay rises because it may set off an inflationary spiral, he got one…Read more…
Care staff announce strikes over fire and rehire plans
St Monica Trust workers line up five strike days
The article Care staff announce strikes over fire and rehire plans first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Review: The Second and Third Internationals and the Vienna Union (1922)
This short book is a transcript of a long-forgotten meeting that took place in Berlin’s Reichstag in early April 1922. At the initiative the Austrian Social Democrats and their colleagues in what came to be…Read more…
Review: The Second and Third Internationals and the Vienna Union (1922)
This short book is a transcript of a long-forgotten meeting that took place in Berlin’s Reichstag in early April 1922. At the initiative the Austrian Social Democrats and their colleagues in…Read more…
Care staff announce strikes over fire and rehire plans
Bristol care company St Monica Trust wants to cut pay by £400 a month
The article Care staff announce strikes over fire and rehire plans first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Frontline health workers vote ‘yes’ to strike action at sites across Lancashire
OCS workers want to be treated like colleagues directly employed by NHS
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Leeds university members prepare to strike again
Action is over the 2021-22 pay round and the detrimental changes to the USS pension scheme
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UNISON National Delegate Conference 2022: Day 3 (Why hasn’t our NEC resigned yet?)
This morning I started the day with another slow jog along the Brighton beach front. During breakfast at the hotel my branch delegation agreed which 6 motions that we want to be “prioritised” for debate on Friday afternoon (the infamous UNISON …Read more…
Rail strike – Loder ignorance
In Parliament the MP for West Dorset, Chris Loder, used the Johnson method, not bothering to check facts and concocting … MoreRead more…
Delegates back calls for improved pay and sick pay
Speakers highlight how national minimum wage and national living wage rates are not keeping up with inflation, and say that poor sick pay means sick workers going to work
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Agency Workers as Strike-Breakers: ILO Convention 87, and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
The post Agency Workers as Strike-Breakers: ILO Convention 87, and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement appeared first on IER.Read more…
‘Democracy and peace are equal to bread and water’: Turkish trade unionists address conference
Representatives of KESK, the Turkish Confederation of Public Service Workers joined UNISON’s conference
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“If you don’t fight you will always lose”
New Wales TUC President, Brendan Kelly, tells us about his priorities for the year ahead and why he’ll be marching in London on 18 June.Read more…
Wealth inequality in the UK is ‘entrenched’ under the Tories
As UNISON conference lays waste to the levelling up agenda, delegates say that the current government is ill-placed to fix problems that it caused in the first place
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UNISON commits to campaign for a national care service
In the motion care worker members gave heartfelt testimony of their experiences working throughout the pandemic
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‘Now is the time for investment, not cuts’
UNISON delegates hear that much-improved public sector pay and a ‘realistic’ windfall tax are the key to the cost of living crisis
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‘This union is a green union’: UNISON commits to decarbonise public services
UNISON commits to introduce green reps on all branch committees in order to support bargaining and negotiation on decarbonisation
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