Unite members will come together across Britain tomorrow (March 29) in a national day of action to stop benefits sanctions, with demonstrations in cities and towns up and down the country at over 80…Read more…
International Trade Weapon of the Big Powers
Teresa May in her Commons Speech has called for a “Comprehensive Agreement” in her speech on triggering article 50 to leave the EU. Others have indicated that there must be a deal. The…Read more…
‘No hard Brexit’ plea
Trade union leaders and the Labour party called on Theresa May to ensure that Brexit does not hurt ordinary people, as she triggered the two-year negotiations to leave the EU today. A letter…Read more…
What Brexit could mean…
On what is to me a sad day I couldn’t help smile at this cartoon in the UNISON members InFOCUS magazine.Read more…
Blog: Safer workplaces – an impact that should never be understated
Thanks to the work of UNISON’s health and safety reps, public sector employees are less likely to suffer injury in the workplace. Tens of thousands of UK workers die every year because of their work…Read more…
UNISON London Community Service Group AGM & Seminar 6 May 17
The seminar is on Housing and all UNISON members are invited. Some key figures have been invited as speakers and panel members. Wait and see – but I think this will be really good event. Registration forms have been sent to London branches but contact …Read more…
Blog: These negotiations will define the future of our country for generations
There is a great deal on the line, and these negotiations will define the future of our country for generations. Yet we still know far too little about what the government’s red lines are – and…Read more…
Even the NHS pay review body condemns the cap
Today’s NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) report stands as a sharp rebuke to the government’s public sector pay policy. Though their recommendation is for pay to remain within the cap, their comments indicate dismay at the havoc the policy is wreaking on the health service. In 2011/12, the government…Read more…
Predictable State Pension Age review lacks imagination
As the UK government probably planned when they appointed a safe, if boring, pair of hands in John Cridland, his review of the State Pension Age (SPA) lacks imagination.
He recommends:• State Pension…Read more…
‘No holds barred’ fact-check from McCluskey team as Unite polls open
As ballot papers begin to fall through letterboxes for the Unite General Secretary election, members deserve to have reliable information, not ‘alternative facts’, to hand while making their choice….Read more…
The Commonwealth Remains a Means to Perpetuate Neo-Colonialism and is an Anachronism in the 21st Century
The government has recently made great efforts to strengthen the neo-colonial ties that exist in the so-called Commonwealth, the organisation of some fifty-two states around the world, most of which…Read more…
Gross government incompetence
Taxpayers and workers will pay the price for gross government incompetence, after the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) announced on Monday (March 27) it would axe a multi-billion pound…Read more…
PM: change Brexit tack call
With UK manufacturers warning today (March 27) that a ‘no deal’ Brexit would be ‘simply unacceptable to an industry accounting for 45 percent of all UK exports’, Unite has…Read more…
‘Address gross injustice’ call
An agency supplying labour to Sports Direct’s warehouse in Derbyshire has yet to honour a deal it made to award back pay to workers who were illegally underpaid the minimum wage. The continued…Read more…
Only a Pro-Social Government that directly represents the right to health care can be “the government of the NHS”
On March 8, only four days after one of the largest national demonstrations opposing the government’s whole direction for the NHS the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, concluded the…Read more…
NHS staff are giving 100%, but getting just 1% in return, says UNISON
Commenting on the announcement from the NHS pay review body (PRB) today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Health service employees go above and beyond caring for patients and…Read more…
Latest NHS pay award is ‘derisory’, say health unions
Commenting on the announcement today (Tuesday) from the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) of its proposals for 2017/18, Christina McAnea, the spokesperson for unions representing staff working in the NHS,…Read more…
U.S. Workers Most at Risk From Robots
(CNN) Millions of workers around the world are at risk of losing their jobs to robots — but Americans should be particularly worried. Thirty-eight percent of jobs in the U.S. are at high risk…Read more…
‘Pension robbery’ protest
A group of BMW workers from the UK will be handing in a petition and protesting outside the carmaker’s Munich headquarters in Germany tomorrow (March 29), demanding that BMW Group bosses stop their…Read more…
UNISON support sees tribunal call for nurse to get her job back
Health board acted unfairly in dismissing nurse for short-term sickness absences when she was experiencing domestic abuse
The article UNISON support sees tribunal call for nurse to get her job back…Read more…