Our #Clarion indicative strike ballot is still open & a email reminder was sent out yesterday to fill out the ballot form #Clarion is obviously still keen by their unlawful and immoral decisions to increase the number of pensioners living in …Read more…
Airline turnout
Wizz Air had its AGM this week. Once again very low turnout, due to disenfranchisement of non-EU shareholders in order to meet ownership & control requirements. This is of course an issue across the sector (and TUI had other issues this year), so I…Read more…
2023: Year of Black Workers – Passing the torch to the next Generation
Please check out this flyer for the Greater London UNISON Black History Month Event at the UNISON centre on 12 October. All members welcome. Read more…
Autumn term strikes set to go ahead at 13 universities
HE members have suffered a real-terms pay cut of around 25% over the last 14 years, due to year on year rises that were below inflation
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Autumn term strikes set to go ahead at 13 universities
HE members have suffered a real-terms pay cut of around 25% over the last 14 years, due to year on year rises that were below inflation
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Today’s top stories…BA major pay win
It was great news for around 24,000 British Airways workers today (August 4) as Unite has secured a pay rise worth 13.1 per cent over 18-months, as well as a £1,000 one off payment.
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UniteLive stories of the year – Journey to victory
Workers at Europe’s biggest soft drinks plant were facing a pay cut in real terms at the highly profitable Coca Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) based in Wakefield. So profitable, that the company registered record profits of £1.85bn in the last year, up some healthy 37 per cent. However, CCEP clearly had no intention of sharing the rewards with its employees.
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UNISON Greater London Housing Association Branch Executive Social (& putting our world to rights)
Great photo from last night’s meal in London Bridge for branch elected executive members to meet our new organiser, Karl and discuss disputes and issues across our sector. We had representatives from most of the G15 Housing Associations and had a…Read more…
Today’s top stories… Loo hell at Luton Airport
Two 24-hour strikes are planned at Luton Airport on August 11 and August 30 by over 30 Unite members working for Sasse Ltd on an outsourced contract
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Workers still paying the price
The Bank of England (BoE) announced for the first time today (August 3) that interest rates will stay higher for longer, in an effort, it says to battle soaring price rises.
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Today’s top stories…Bin strike win
Our UNITElive top news story of August 2 is the great result for around 150 South Gloucestershire bin workers ending their strike after Unite secured an improved pay offer.
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The good life?
“Barns and cottages will get converted into properties that landowners sell off with a few acres of land and horse paddocks, and millionaires from London will buy them since they can get a really quick train into London”
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Review: Case Sensitive, by A.K. Turner
The third (and final, for now) book in the new British crime series featuring Camden mortuary worker Cassie Raven is keeping up the high standard set by the previous two stories. The fact that I…Read more…
St Andrews Golf Course must withdraw ‘fire and rehire’ pensions threat to workers, says UNISON
Clarion UNISON have sent solidarity messages to these members and will be in touch regarding our own pension “Fire & Rehire” vile threats. Hat tip CLarion UNISON Facebook page.”Scotland’s largest union is demanding that St Andrews Links…Read more…
Investigating how AI is understood and impacting Welsh workers and trade unionists
Wales TUC are looking into how AI is affecting workers across different sectors, and how trade unionists are managing the increasing roll out of data-driven technologies. Is tech threatening your job or terms and conditions?
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Birmingham airport refuellers to strike
Refuelling tanker drivers and operators employed at Birmingham airport will strike over pay, Unite said today (August 1) The workers, who refuel over three quarters of planes at the airport, have rejected a nine per cent pay offer. This is a real terms pay cut when the real rate of inflation, RPI, stands at 10.7 […]
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1923: The German October
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the decision by the Communist International to launch an armed uprising in Germany. The uprising, which took place in October that year, was a dismal failure. It also…Read more…
Coventry bin strikes ‘inevitable’ after talks collapse
Coventry council has threatened its refuse workers with significant cuts to their terms and conditions and is refusing to negotiate in any meaningful way, Unite said on Monday (July 31). The threats were issued to Unite during talks with the council this afternoon, which subsequently collapsed. More than 40 HGV refuse lorry drivers employed by […]
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