Unacceptable levels of pressure on social work teams will end up costing lives.
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Frost bite in Gallipoli
Last week I was in Malta on holiday with Gill staying in a rented house in Pieta, a suburb of the capital Valletta. I will post another time on what a truly wonderful place Malta is to visit.
By coincidence, just across the road from where…Read more…
Local government staff deserve better from ministers
General secretary warns that we’ll all lose if public services are decimated
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COVID dominates start of UNISON local government conference
First morning of conference in Brighton also highlights how wealth inequality in the UK has been highlighted by the pandemic
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‘Let’s show the government our anger – and our strength’
General secretary Christina McAnea tells UNISON’s local government conference to get their branches ‘strike ready’ and ensure a big turnout at the TUC demo on 18 June
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Ministers are provoking a fight with unions to serve their own ends
The government should focus on helping the country through the cost-of-living crisis
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UNISON Service Group Executive Election Results 2022
Yesterday I was really pleased to get an email from the elections office confirming that I had been elected unopposed to the UNISON Service Group Executive (SGE) for Greater London Community (alongside I believe the one and only, Lola Oyewusi).&n…Read more…
Egypt can’t deliver a just transition at COP27 while workers’ rights are on the line
As Egypt prepares to take over the COP27 presidency and countries gather for the Bonn Climate Conference, trade unions are calling for Egypt to end its repression of workers, trade unions and…Read more…
‘Brilliant result’
Unite has secured a pay deal for around 50 cleaners employed by ABM based at Glasgow Airport, the UK’s leading aviation trade union confirmed. The deal will raise basic pay to £9.90 per hour, an…Read more…
Protest At Your Own Peril
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Higher education members vote to reject pay offer
The union has given notification of a formal dispute to the HE employers, the University and Colleges Employers Association, after 83% say ‘no’ to 3% offer
The article Higher education members vote to reject pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Blog: Concentrating on the issues that matter
As Boris Johnson continues to bluster amid Tory infighting and a vote of no confidence, UNISON will be using our national delegate conference to discuss the issues that really matter
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Talking about digital campaigning in unions
This week, colleagues from 10 TUC unions came together at a Digital Lab office hours session to share thoughts on digital campaigning. Here’s a note of some of the points we discussed….Read more…
Proper action needed for Black workers in health and care
Lofty words mean little without decisive action to back them up
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Care home fire and rehire threat will drive staff out of the sector
Ministers need to make good on promise to clamp down on unscrupulous bosses
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UNISON wins major insourcing battle in Lanarkshire
The jobs of 400 workers at University Hospital Wishaw will be transferred from private contractor Serco onto NHS contracts, with no job losses
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Moy Park shamed amid strike
Unite are workers now on their fourth day of strike action at Randalstown plant. Unite has determined that Moy Park is paying its workers there £5,000 a year less than workers at other company sites….Read more…
Bexley council urged to sort out contractor
Bexley council, in South London, has been called on to sort out one of its contractors amid a bin strike ballot over pay and ‘appalling’ treatment by management. Unite said that more than 100 of its…Read more…
Major Unite victory protects workers’ rights at Ineos
In a major victory for Unite the union and workers employed at the Ineos Grangemouth site, a tribunal has ruled that an employer cannot impose a pay offer – and that Ineos must now compensate workers…Read more…
Strikes to hit London’s transport network
Strikes will hit the capital’s transport network this month as Unite members at Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground (LU) take action to defend pay, pensions and jobs. On Tuesday, June…Read more…