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A recent letter from Steve Barclay, secretary of state for health and social care, to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), gives the strongest indication yet that NHS staff will be offered a two per cent pay rise for 2023. The letter, dated 16 November, states that ‘in the current economic context, it is particularly […]
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TUC reaction to Autumn Statement 2022. Until we have a government that has a serious plan to put work before wealth, we look set to remain trapped in the doom loop of austerity politics.
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Teaming up with Norwegian trade unionists, the Baker’s union and Unite, young workers are coming together for the TUC Winter Patrol to engage workers across the poorly paid and precarious hospitality industry.
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has written to the Ofgem CEO, Jonathan Brearley , and Chair, Martin Cave, to demand that the Regulator clamp down on excessive profiteering by energy distributors. ‘Unite investigates’ – the union’s research and investigation arm – has established that last year the major energy suppliers, distributors, and generators made £15.8 […]
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With the World Cup now underway, UNISON has published new guidance on how workplaces can support survivors of domestic abuse
The article World Cup: Women prepare for increased domestic abuse first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Second wave of action for HE workers
The article Thousands of university workers strike again over wages first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Long-running dispute will go for definitive ruling in highest court
The article Supreme Court hearing to decide strike protection, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.
On Saturday I went canvassing in Canning Town South ward with our local MP, Lyn Brown and Unmesh our local Assembly member and Councillors Das Gupta and Griffiths. The ward has been transformed in recent times by the building of so man…Read more…
The trans caucus, together with Northern Ireland and North West regions, pick up the first awards since COVID began
The article LGBT+ awards make a welcome return in Edinburgh first appeared on the UNISON National site.
UNISON president Andrea Egan says the Tories “have our rights in their sights”
The article ‘We need to continue the fight … let’s join the winter of solidarity’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
What follows is the text of a post which I wrote for the excellent LabourHub Blog following the alarming news that the Labour Party membership of UNISON President Andrea Egan had been terminated;Just when you think that the unjustified administrative a…Read more…
Picture is of local volunteers, Council officers and Councillors about to go out at midnight on Thursday to take our part in the UK annual nationwide street count of people sleeping rough. We also had observers to verify our results from the civi…Read more…
LGBT+ delegates take aim at the “exhausting,” negative press coverage of trans people, and the horror of damaging conversion ‘therapy’
The article Terfs, ‘toxic opinions’ and an obsession over who’s in what toilet first appeared on the UNISON National site.
LGBT+ conference rises to celebrate a lifetime of campaigning
The article ‘Living legend’ Jackie Lewis given LGBT+ lifetime achievement award first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Dr Julia Ehrt, executive director of ILGA World praises UNISON and tells conference: “It is time for LGBTI movement to learn – trans exclusion weakens your own cause.”
The article ‘Being inclusive is not only the right thing … it is a strategic necessity’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
From the workplace to the Rwanda policy, to Ukraine and Ghana, LGBT+ delegates debate a worrying situation
The article Delegates discusses tackling hate and persecution around the world first appeared on the UNISON National site.
General secretary tells UNISON LGBT+ conference that there’s still much to do on equalities and trans equality cannot be treated as some ‘poor relation’
The article Christina McAnea: ‘It’s great to be loud and proud’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite which represents tens of thousands of lorry drivers, has discovered that the government’s much heralded multi-million pound scheme to improve toilet facilities for lorry drivers, is entirely unspent after a year. In the October 2021 budget the then chancellor, now prime minister, Rishi Sunak allocated £32.5 million to the Department of Transport (DfT) to […]
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Today, the TUC releases an eve-of-the-World-Cup report, detailing the experiences of workers who spoke to our researcher earlier this month. The link to the report is below, but the foreword was written with the Playfair Qatar team, and is an important follow up to our last post 5 years ago. ______________________________________________________________________ In 2014, the TUC […]Read more…
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