Families will still pay almost twice as much this year as they did last year – in addition to sky-rocketing prices for other goods and services.
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The death of Her Majesty The Queen
Christina McAnea offers condolences on behalf of UNISON
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Commonwealth Games – A progressive deal for workers
Heading in the Wrong Direction
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Workers to pay ‘for massive energy company profits’
Unite has slammed prime minister Liz Truss’ plan on energy bills, saying the proposal will make working people pay for energy company profits – and so for a crisis not of their own making. Truss on Thursday (September 8) announced a much-anticipated plan to tackle skyrocketing energy bills by freezing bills at £2,500 a year […]
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Waiting times won’t reduce without fixing workforce issues, says UNISON
Pay is key to solving NHS problems
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Fund energy help by taxing firms making most from crisis, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says energy efficient measures also needed
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Review: Karl Radek: The Last Internationalist, by Warren Lerner
Warren Lerner’s 1970 biography of Karl Radek may be the only English language biography of this once-famous, now-forgotten Bolshevik leader. Karl Radek, born in 1885 and died in 1939 (possibly) was intensely disliked by most…Read more…
Headteachers fear losing increasingly vital teaching assistants as cost-of-living pressures bites
To halt the exodus of teaching assistants they need to be better rewarded
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Love to learn – National TUC Education courses 2022/23
TUC Education courses – 2022/23 It’s not too late to sign up for courses running in your area from September 2022. You can now sign up for courses running in 2023 as well. Our courses offer essential training for reps and help you develop your s…Read more…
What we’ve learned from growing the TUC’s social media comms
The TUC has been evolving our approach to social media in the last couple of years. Here are a few of the principles of what we’ve tried, and what we’ve learned in doing it. Social is a battle for attention The starting point for a lot of our content is that on social media most … Continue reading What we’ve learned from growing the TUC’s social media comms
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Honeywell workforce set for strike action
Members of Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, employed at aerospace company Honeywell, will begin strike action tomorrow (September 8) in a dispute over pay. Around Unite 20 members including production and assembly workers recorded a 78.6 per cent vote in favour of strike action on a 77.8 per cent turnout at Honeywell. The first day […]
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Construction supplies workers celebrate pay win
Planned strike action at construction supplies companies Birtley Group Ltd and Bowater Doors Ltd has been called off after the workers accepted a nine per cent pay increase. The workers, who are members of Unite were due to begin strike action in August, with further strikes scheduled in this month. Following the announcement of industrial […]
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American Airlines Heathrow facing strikes
More than 50 aircraft maintenance technicians and crew chiefs, responsible for the aircraft that make 23 daily American Airline Heathrow departures, are angry over a three year pay offer. In the first year, technicians would receive 5.3 per cent and crew chiefs 3.8 per cent. In the second year, all workers would receive a lump […]
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The case for space
In the last few days, NASA has twice had to abort launches of the Artemis mission to the Moon. By the time this article appears in print, there may be another attempt, a successful launch…Read more…
Liz is our leader
Weird day. Love this tweet by sacked Tory Ministers wife about their new leader. Hope it is not fake :-)Felicity Cornelius-Mercer@mercer_felicityHe asked her ‘why would you do this, who is going to be better at this role than me, which of your ma…Read more…
Review: The Con Man, by Ed McBain
Having failed to kill off Detective Steve Carella in the previous book, the 4th book in the long-running 87th Precinct series has him playing a star role. As in many of McBain’s novels, there are…Read more…
Review: Proletarian dictatorship and terrorism, by Karl Radek
At the time he wrote this in 1920, Karl Radek was a loyal Bolshevik. This short book, like Trotsky’s more famous Terrorism and Communism, was written in rebuttal to Karl Kautsky’s book of the same…Read more…
Help boost protection for pregnant women and new parents
UNISON has been working with Dan Jarvis MP on the issue and with a second reading of a private member’s bill due this Friday, you can help ensure it gains support
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Environment Agency staff overwhelmingly reject pay offer
Rejection in the consultative ballot makes clear that ‘now is the time for the agency to step up and make the case for an increased pay offer’
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