It’s International Workers’ Day 2024 #IWD2024
UNISON stands in solidarity with all workers and their trade unions at home and around the world.
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It’s International Workers’ Day 2024 #IWD2024
UNISON stands in solidarity with all workers and their trade unions at home and around the world.
#MayDayRead more…
We held our Black Workers Conference over the weekend and had delegates from across the movement come together in celebration, strength and solidarity.
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Construction workers gathered at Unite’s annual International Workers’ Memorial Day commemoration at Tower Hill by the Building Worker statue in London this week. In a year that saw deaths in the construction industry climb, speakers recognised the role trade union health and safety reps play in making workplaces safer, and demanded better access to all […]
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Unite has released a new film which features the ‘lost voices’ of Bristol Bus Boycott women pioneers. The film was produced as part of a commemoration event at the Tony Benn House in Bristol. You can watch the film below: Film by Jake Roberts
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Unite unveiled a plaque to commemorate the Bristol Bus Boycott at an event in its South West offices at Tony Benn House last night (April 30). The Bristol Bus Boycott began in 1963, when a group of young West Indian activists led a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company for refusing to recruit black and […]
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The UK’s official trade figures for Q4 2023 reveal the UK’s goods exports to the EU slumped from £196.7bn in 2022 to £186bn last year. The revised figures reveal that the UK’s exports of goods to the EU slumped as … Continue reading Read more…
“Please join the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) and IndustriALL Global Union for a one-hour investor webinar on 21 May at 3pm UK/4pm CET, when we will explore the Employment Injury Scheme (EIS) for r…Read more…
Visa changes could lead to service catastrophe for those in need
The article Government’s hostile policies are worsening already dire staffing shortages in care, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.
From Friday through the weekend, Unite members across the union’s regions marked International Workers’ Memorial Day to ‘honour the dead and fight for the living’. You can view highlights from the commemorations in photos below: Angus Council – Scotland East Ayreshire – Scotland Aberdeen – Scotland Doncaster Leeds Sheffield Wolverhampton Tower Hill, London – photo […]
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Construction workers from Hinkley Point C (HPC) in Somerset gathered around the Unite Workers’ Memorial in Bridgwaters’ Blake Gardens to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day on Friday (April 26). They were joined by Unite officers along with representatives from trades councils and other workplace unions to lay wreaths and hear speeches. In total over 60 […]
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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…
Choose who you can trust to put you and your family first
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Choose who you can trust to put you and your family first
The article UNISON opinion: Make sure that you use your vote this Thursday first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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…
A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it
The article Stop violence at work: Please take the campaign survey first appeared on the UNISON National site.
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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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…
(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…
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…
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…