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Dear Colleagues,
A strange title indeed for one of my last posts of 2017, but this is the title of the first chapter of The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England 1640-1650 by John Rees. Recently published by Verso this is…Read more…
Unite has threatened to take legal action after staff working on Glasgow’s new waste power plant were locked out of the the site and paid off with just a week’s notice. Glasgow City Council…Read more…
Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control. Members of Unite Community’s Dundee branch set up…Read more…
08 December 2016
By Sarah Glenister, National Development Office, Institute of Employment Rights
When taking on the mantle of prime minister this summer, Theresa May attempted to rebrand the…Read more…
A few months ago I wrote that federalism, a bit like my wardrobe, was coming back into fashion. Well, my wardrobe is still struggling, but yesterday Kez Dugdale took the journey towards federalism a…Read more…
Australian company Macquarie’s successful bid for the National Grid’s distribution business has been greeted with dismay today (Thursday) by public services union UNISON. The union…Read more…
Unite along with other steel unions have yesterday (December 7) secured a commitment from Tata Steel to secure the future of jobs and production at Port Talbot and other steelworks across the UK….Read more…
Theresa May should use her freshly renewed ties with Colombia’s president to aid the fragile peace process and help secure the release of political prisoners in the South American nation, said a…Read more…
Press release: no union-busting at Clarion – UNISON, Unite and GMB lobby to fight threatened withdrawal of union recognition
For immediate release – Wednesday 7th December 2016
Trade unions UNISON, Unite and the GMB stepped up their campaign against union derecognition last…Read more…
Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months: “What most people don’t realise about people whose benefits are…Read more…
Unable to work, Karen’s only lifeline has been Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the disability and illness benefit which allowed her to get by. But her life suddenly turned upside down when her…Read more…
MPs from the cross-party Exiting the EU Select Committee today heard evidence on how Brexit could affect the world of work, from the TUC’s Frances O’Grady, CBI’s Carolyn Fairbairn and former BCC Chair turned Brexit campaigner, John Longworth. We’ve heard a lot of promises in…Read more…
Derby teaching assistants are to take six days of strike action in the long-running dispute over cuts to their pay, UNISON has announced today (Wednesday). School support staff will take action next…Read more…
To mark Disability History Month I thought this would be a good time to share the great progress unions have made on disability issues. Community have negotiated an adult apprenticeship agreement and…Read more…
‘We should make Eric proud by continuing on in the union – let’s make and keep this the best union’
The article NEC pays tribute to Eric Roberts first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
UNISON’s principles of proportionality and fair representation means that some seats on elected bodies are reserved for low-paid members
The article Reserved (low pay) seat threshold for 2016/17…Read more…
STPs five-year plan? Is the IOW within one of 44 areas identified as the geographical ‘footprints’? , No; (the smallest area covers a population size of 300,000 and the largest 2.8 million)….Read more…
I must admit that I agree with much (but not all) of the rant below by Newham @triggerdemocracy. I to have been overwhelmed by complaints by local Party members about what has gone on and will support the call for a proper and independent enquiry into …Read more…
Once again Len McCluskey has decided to force a snap General Secretary election, in which he intends to stand for re-election. The announcement is here and the official Unite information is here.
Calling the election now, a year early, with nomination…Read more…
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – who staged a successful lobby of MPs today (December 6) over their pensions’ ‘betrayal’, have pledged to continue the fight into…Read more…