UNISON has today (Wednesday) launched an advertising campaign to show the positive impact of public sector workers, while also highlighting their struggles as a result of cuts to public spending. The…Read more…
Window makers strike
Workers at Sierra Windows in Paignton, Devon started a 48-hour strike today (April 26) in a dispute over pay and an imposed change to shift patterns. Unite called on the ‘secretive’ management…Read more…
Workers’ Memorial Day, 2017
The purpose behind Workers’ Memorial Day has always been to “remember the dead: fight for the living”, and to remember all those killed through work but at the same time ensuring…Read more…
Workers’ lives at risk
Unite is warning that workers’ lives are being placed at risk due to the cut in the number of frontline health and safety inspectors. Figures obtained by Unite, via a Freedom of Information…Read more…
Jobs come first
Labour’s Brexit plan has been unveiled during a general election campaign speech by Sir Keir Starmer. The shadow Brexit secretary said yesterday (April 25) a Labour government would axe…Read more…
Union vows to stand against any smokescreen for health cuts
‘UNISON has never been anti-change, but will oppose things bad for services, bad for communities and bad for staff’
The article Union vows to stand against any smokescreen for health cuts first…Read more…
Better pay, safer staffing and fully funded training pledged at health conference
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth launches triple promise and warns: ‘The future of the NHS is at stake in this election’
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Pay claims submitted on behalf of English and Welsh college workers
UNISON and fellow further education unions ask for ‘inflation plus’ pay rises from September
The article Pay claims submitted on behalf of English and Welsh college workers first appeared on the…Read more…
‘We didn’t come to work to die’
In part 3 of UNITElive’s International Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite shop steward Neal Hodkinson about his fight against asbestos. While accidents in the…Read more…
Insecure work is like standing for election every week. We need a new deal for working people
MPs aren’t the only ones feeling insecure in their jobs right now. If nothing changes, by the 2022 election hundreds of thousands more Brits could be stuck in insecure work, being treated like…Read more…
A quarter of a million more in insecure work by end of next Parliament?
New analysis by the TUC shows that if current trends continue, 290,000 more people could be trapped in insecure work by 2022. The figures show that by the start of 2022, 3.5 million people could be in insecure work such as zero-hours contracts, tempora…Read more…
Address to Congress by Kezia Dugdale MSP, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
Kezia Dugdale MSPLeader of the Scottish Labour Party120th STUC Annual Congress
Let me begin by paying tribute to the STUC, to Helen and to Grahame Smith, your General Secretary.
The STUC has…Read more…
Hospital staff paying ‘extortionate’ charges to park at work, says UNISON
Some hospitals are charging NHS staff, including low-waged nurses and porters, ‘extortionate’ fees of nearly £100 a month to park, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The Royal Free London NHS Foundation…Read more…
UNISON responds to Labour’s pledge for NHS staff
Responding to Labour’s NHS election pledge, to be announced by shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth tomorrow (Wednesday) in Liverpool -at UNISON’s annual health conference – UNISON general…Read more…
40% RENT UP – CAN’T PAY – WILL STAY! Message To One Housing Group
Photo from last night’s planning and action meeting of the Newham key workers facing massive rent rises by the Charitable Landlord, One Housing Group. The tenants are living in housing blocks that were handed over to the Housing Association in 1997 by …Read more…
Export chocolate, not jobs
Unite and the GMB and have slammed Nestle for proposing 300 job losses as it moves production of the iconic Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to Poland. The confectionary giant is making the…Read more…
Returning to the roots of MayDay’s Cabarets
–> Glasgow Friends of MayDay (GFoMD) have announced another stellar line-up for the sixth annual Great May Day cabaret celebrating International Workers’ Day (May Day). This annual event at…Read more…
Acknowledge our proposals
Pension proposals by workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – to break the logjam in their long-running pensions’ dispute have been ignored, Unite said today (April 25)….Read more…
Fight for the living
Friends and families who have lost loved ones to workplace fatalities are having to wait an agonising 3 years 4 months to secure justice , according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request made by…Read more…
Food bank Britain
As families already struggling under a generation of austerity are doubly hit by the introduction of Universal Credit, food bank use has skyrocketed and now stands at an all-time high. The…Read more…