UNISON Service Group elections started last week. These are really important elections. Some seats were not contested so not everyone has received a postal vote (and you can vote via email but not do both!)The list below is of personal recommenda…Read more…
UNISON opinion: Make sure that you use your vote this Thursday
Choose who you can trust to put you and your family first
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UNISON opinion: Make sure that you use your vote this Thursday
Choose who you can trust to put you and your family first
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Review: How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler, by Peter Pomerantsev
A publisher I know used to say that if you want to sell more books, put “Hitler” in the title. In this case, someone may have been taking his advice. It was not Hitler who…Read more…
Stop violence at work: Please take the campaign survey
A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it
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‘The fight for health and safety never ends’
Unite members joined other trade unionists at an International Workers’ Memorial Day event in Liverpool on Sunday (April 28) to ‘honour the dead and fight for the living’. They observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to all workers who have died or have been injured in work in the UK and across the […]
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Double West Ham canvass for Sadiq Khan & Labour
This has been a busy Labour Movement few days with Workers Memorial Day on Friday, TUC Regional Council AGM yesterday (followed by my first ever visit to the Victoria & Albert Museum – which deserves a future post) and today, campaigning for …Read more…
TUC London, Eastern & South East Regional Council AGM 24
(Text largely from my twitter account @grayee) “At @The_TUC LESE AGM in Congress House, London (home of the British Trade union movement) which I am attending as a @unisonglr delegate. After a minutes silence to remember comrades who have died i…Read more…
Review: The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is a young-ish American marketing executive who seems to have stumbled upon stoicism and turned the philosophy of the ancient Greeks into a real money spinner. His books are fast reads and mega-best-sellers,…Read more…
Worker’s Memorial Day 2024: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends”.
Today we remembered workers who died in the course of their duties and also those who died trying valiantly to save them. Workers Memorial Day is on Sunday (28 April) this year but we decided to hold our annual event today. The venue was bes…Read more…
Struggling schools forced to rely on teaching assistants as cheap cover for teachers
Ministers are entirely responsible for the funding crisis that’s putting schools in this impossible position.
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Struggling schools forced to rely on teaching assistants as cheap cover for teachers
Ministers are entirely responsible for the funding crisis that’s putting schools in this impossible position.
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AI: Threats & Opportunities For The Media
Festival Of Debate, 2024. Louisa Bull, National Officer Graphical, Paper, Media & IT Sector. Unite The Union : AI: Threats & Opportunities For The Media April 25th, 2024I know other speakers are going to deal much more eloquently with the … Continue reading Read more…
‘It’s time to start fighting now’
On Thursday (April 25) striking canteen workers based at Drax Power Station descended on Drax’s AGM in London. Watch the inspiring film below to find out more about this brave group of women who are taking a big stand for fair pay. Film by Anna Burton
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Fighting the flood
In the week ahead of International Workers’ Memorial Day, UniteLive has explored this year’s theme – workers’ health and the climate crisis. Earlier this week, we looked at the impact of rising temperatures on two very different groups of workers – farmworkers and commercial kitchen staff. Today, we look back at a story that was […]
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UNISON SGE elections 2024: Community Recommendations
Denise and I, as elected UNISON Community NEC members, have no hesitation recommending Clare, Malcolm and Joy as Service Group Executive members. Read more…
Video: Shadow IT and unions: How do we keep innovation without adding risk?
To launch our new report on managing Shadow IT in unions, author Simon Parry presented to a TUC Digital Lab webinar on the subject. Following on from our last webinar on wider cyber security issues, this 30 mins video is a deep dive on Shadow IT. Simon looks at what it is, what it means for … Continue reading Video: Shadow IT and unions: How do we keep innovation without adding risk?
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‘No way’ to low pay
Drax shareholders heard Unite’s message loud and clear at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London on Thursday (April 25) as striking canteen workers based at Drax power station fight for fair pay. Unite reps and activists descended on the AGM in support of the canteen workers, who have been in dispute with their […]
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The flowers of freedom
April 25, 1974 – and the world witnessed a 48-year authoritarian reign of terror that had stunted industrial development being swept aside in Portugal by a coup led by middle ranking army officers. Known as the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) they had become radicalised by the Iberian nations determination to retain its sprawling colonial empire, […]
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New Deal for Workers – potentially the ‘singular most transformative policy of the incoming Labour government’
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