180 Unite members employed by Manchester Working Limited / Mears, who carry out vital maintenance in the city, have been been in dispute for five weeks and are currently striking on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Today they held an impressive protest …Read more…
FURTHER THREE DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION ON ARRIVA RAIL NORTH
22 June 2017 RMT Press Office: RMT confirms a further three days of strike action on Arriva Rail North in guards’ safety dispute Rail union RMT has confirmed that a further three days of strike…Read more…
More Postal Strikes Over Pay.
A wave of actions may be hitting Britain, concentrating on Wage increases. This is in light of the TUC saying that Britain deserves a pay rise. Postal deliveries in the Scarborough area were…Read more…
UNISON: Conference Speech from Corbyn:
National delegate conference hails inspiring speech from Jeremy Corbyn Labour leader pledges to end public sector pay cap and invest in homes, the NHS, social care and all our services – to create a…Read more…
Undoing Social Protection
23 June 2017
By Professor Steve Tombs, the Open University
“It’s going to come to the point where it’s going to affect the residents, the local population, in many ways we are at that point now,…Read more…
“Enough is Enough!” End Public Sector Pay Restraint!
Unite calls for end of public sector pay restraint to mark European public services day 23 June 2017 Public sector workers in the UK were calling for the lifting of seven years of pay restraint as…Read more…
Battle continues against ‘restrictive and draconian’ Trade Union Act
Brighton delegates told: ‘They want to make us an endangered species. But if they push us, we push back.’
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PCS is encouraging members to support the anti-austerity demonstration in London on 1 July.
1 July: Book your transport now 23 Jun 2017 Join PCS and the People’s Assembly in London on Saturday 1 July to say no to austerity and no to the cuts PCS is encouraging members to support the…Read more…
RMT CONFIRMS NEW STRIKE DATE ON SOUTHERN RAIL
22 June 2017 RMT Press Office: RAIL UNION RMT confirmed today that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike again for 24 hours in the on-going disputes over the safety impact of the extension…Read more…
Cheerio UNISON!
Within the next hour I shall cease to hold my last UNISON position as I am replaced on our NEC by the excellent Sean Fox.
It’s been a wonderful, exhilarating, irritating, exhausting and fascinating quarter century as a Branch Secretary and – for fourteen years – a member of the National…Read more…
Public cash for future energy works
The report on the financing of the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point reinforces the case for public money to be committed to future large-scale energy projects, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
A sorry little episode
I was saddened to see an inarticulate rant in Friday’s “London Calling” (the generally tedious and anodyne Regional news sheet at UNISON National Delegate Conference).
The rant, written by one of the stooges of those who brought our trade union into such disrepute by their misconduct…Read more…
M&S ‘equal pay for equal work’ row
Deliveries to Marks and Spencer food stores in London and the south east will be disrupted if a strike over ‘equal pay for equal work’ at Hemel Hempstead goes ahead, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
End pay restraint call
Public sector workers in the UK were calling for the lifting of seven years’ of pay restraint as part of the European Federation of Public Service Unions’ (EPSU) campaign to mark public services day…Read more…
Stop BA ‘wet lease’ call
Unite today (June 23) is calling on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to turn down an application by British Airways to charter or ‘wet lease’ nine Qatari registered Airbus that it wants to provide…Read more…
Cruel cap ruled unlawful
In a damning judgement the Tories’ cruel benefit cap has been ruled unlawful by the High Court because it discriminates against single parent families with children under two. Delivering the…Read more…
Facing the sack for being sick: Life in insecure work
A few weeks’ holiday each year and some time off when you’re sick aren’t big asks. Most of us take them for granted. Too often, insecure workers, however, are forced to work while sick and avoid taking holidays. Hundreds of people recently told us about their daily experiences of insecure work. The…Read more…
Unions aren’t to blame for the Southern Rail situation. They’re trying to help.
After much delay (it was completed in December) the DfT have finally published the Gibb Report into the causes of and solutions to the problems that beset the Southern Rail franchise. The report is complex and covers a huge amount of territory in its 1…Read more…
St Mary’s Hospital cancels operations due to pressures
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust said operations would be rescheduled as soon as possible. Thursday, June 22, 2017 – 10:36 OPERATIONS have been cancelled at St Mary’s Hospital today (Thursday)…Read more…
National delegate conference hails inspiring speech from Jeremy Corbyn
Labour leader pledges to end public sector pay cap and invest in homes, the NHS, social care and all our services – to create a country for everyone
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