Today’s figures confirmed what we already knew: that economic growth in 2016 was entirely reliant on the consumer. We also know that workers are in the middle of an unprecedented decline in real wages (at least since Victorian times). So the inevitable result is lower saving and increased growth in…Read more…
Unite says no to nurse cuts
Standing in support of families with babies and young children, the local York community joined Unite members in a demonstration yesterday (March 30) against proposals by the city council to axe…Read more…
‘Still the aliens’
For those on the spectrum, every day is a guessing day – and with it the terrifying thought that something needing logic will happen. It is at this point, when the day begins to fall in on itself and…Read more…
BMW: Unite Munich protest
BMW workers took their fight to protect their pensions all the way to the car maker’s headquarters in Munich on Wednesday (March 29) days before their ballot for industrial action closes today…Read more…
Bob Crow – internationalist and true union leader
Remembering Bob Crow, a fighter for workers everywhere…Read more…
Government should listen to MPs on social care, says UNISON
A new ‘bill of rights’ recommended today (Friday) by MPs for care workers to end low pay and high job turnover rates has been welcomed by UNISON. This key reform has been proposed by the Communities…Read more…
International Transgender Day of Visibility
March 31st is the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. In recent years, even a casual observer may feel that transgender people are already very visible, and query the need for it to…Read more…
Five-year plans must have proper funding to succeed, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication of NHS England’s update on its five-year plan for the NHS, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “The health service consistently delivers for patients – often in…Read more…
Government cuts threaten Newham Free School Meals programme: They cannot afford to pay 60% of the cost
This letter below was sent to many primary school parents today in Newham by the union for Head Teachers. Due to Government cuts and Newham Council changes in the way they charge for meals, many primary schools have decided that they cannot pay 60% of…Read more…
‘Worst experience of my life’
Unite Community members took to the streets outside job centres across Britain in droves today (March 30) as part of Unite Community’s third annual national demo against benefits sanctions. …Read more…
Yorkshire and East Midlands academy job cuts mean more pressure on classroom staff, unions warn
An academy chain with schools in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside has announced today (Thursday) that as many as 40 support staff could face redundancy over plans to cut budgets. The…Read more…
‘Keep Brexit vow to protect workers’
Unite is calling for an amendment to be tabled to the Great Repeal bill when it is brought before parliament. The amendment would stipulate a 66 per cent threshold must be met to make any changes to…Read more…
What sort of Britain?
When Pret a Manger opened its first sandwich shop in 1986, I doubt many of us would have expected well-known high street chains to end up trying to pay their staff in leftovers. But that’s…Read more…
Employment rights should be centre stage as Great Repeal Bill launched, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication of the Bill today (Thursday) that will see the transfer of European laws onto the the UK statute book, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The clock is ticking…Read more…
Anna Di Carlo (Marxist-Leninist) — Taxes
UNISON calls for action to tackle stress endemic in public services
Union survey of 10,000 members shows that stress is harming staff and services – but employers rarely talk about it
The article UNISON calls for action to tackle stress endemic in public services…Read more…
UNISON Supreme Court case shows how tribunal fees price low paid workers out of justice
This week UNISON challenged the government’s employment tribunal fee policy in the Supreme Court. We’ll have to wait a while for the verdict, but when it comes it could have a huge effect on workers’ abilities to enforce their employment rights. Since July 2013, employment tribunals have…Read more…
#Article50: the union response is all about good jobs & rights at work
So much has already been written about the triggering of Article 50, firing the starting gun on two years of negotiations about leaving the European Union. And it was only yesterday. For trade unions, it still seems strange that a Conservative Prime Mi…Read more…
“West Ham tenants’ anger over 40 per cent rent hike”
“A group of tenants is up in arms after their landlord announced a 40 per cent rent hike…
Eve Whitcombe and Jamil Khair (picture right) will have to pay a 40 per cent rent hike or leave their home of the past 18 years. Picture: Jon King
The neighbou…Read more…
All for just a fiver
NHS staff will see yet another year of falling income as the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommended yesterday (March 28) that health workers get only a 1 per cent pay rise next year – well below projected…Read more…