Private landlords pocketed £9.3bn in housing benefit last year, a shocking new report has revealed – double the amount claimed 10 years ago. Analysis by the National Housing Federation (NHF),…Read more…
What are Political Forums talking about?
History, recent history, shows that there are no “external models” for building socialism, though there is a wealth of past experience for us to draw on; us working people have to do it ourselves….Read more…
Roster change bus strike
Unite London bus members working for Tower Transit will be staging the first of two 24-hour stoppages this Friday (August 26), over the imposition of roster changes and a failure by an increasingly…Read more…
There must be a level playing field for career and pay progression
Four decades after the Equal Pay Act and with a vast array of equal rights legislation on the books, this shouldn’t still be happening. Yet there’s ample evidence that women with children are denied…Read more…
‘Things have got to change’
London’s hospitality workers protested with outrage over the ‘unethical’ working conditions of the capital’s hotel industry yesterday evening, following the launch of Unite’s hard-hitting report…Read more…
Yemen: The Forgotten Front in the ‘War on Terror’
BY ANDREW MURRAY Andrew Murray: ‘This is a British war as much as a Saudi war’ It is more than 35 years since I first worked alongside Yemeni workers in Britain. Migrant workers from…Read more…
Take Action! Stop the Government of Ecuador shutting down teachers’ union
The teachers’ union UNE of Ecuador (Unión Nacional de Educadores), an affiliate of global union federation Education International (EI), is facing the threat of being shut down by the…Read more…
NHS: Room at the top?
Race discrimination is alive and kicking in Britain’s workplaces two new reports have found, with black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers suffering underemployment across the economy as well…Read more…
Housing crisis in Ramsgate
The Unite Community ‘Housing Crisis Roadshow’ reached the seaside town of Ramsgate yesterday, where local people said unaffordable house prices and a shortage of social housing has left them unable…Read more…
Knocking down the barriers
Migrant workers at Sports Direct (SD) in Shirebrook have praised Unite for assisting them with learning English. The union has established eight English for Speakers of a Second Language…Read more…
Women penalised financially for having children
Women with children face a wider gender pay gap, says a new report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
The article Women penalised financially for having children first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Wages standstill sees over a million low-income families struggle with extreme debt, says TUC
More than a million families with a household income below £30,000 are in extreme debt, and ongoing wage stagnation is making the problem worse, according to a new report published today (Tuesday) by…Read more…
No-one should be forced to choose between paying the rent and feeding their kids
Over three million households (one in eight UK households) are paying more than 25% of their household income on repaying unsecured debts.
The article No-one should be forced to choose between…Read more…
‘The best job in the world’
It is hard not to take it personally. Rarely a week goes by without some keyboard warrior with a newspaper byline telling unions how they ought to do this, that or the next thing better. …Read more…
More than a million families struggle with extreme debt
Stagnant wages make problem worse for families struggling with low pay
The article More than a million families struggle with extreme debt first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Investment Association gets bitten by Loch Ness Monster
I am catching up on my reading and have been enjoying the rather brutal kicking that the UK fund managers “trade body” the Investment Association (IA) has recently received following its nonsensical claim that their fees don’t matter. The IA claimed th…Read more…
The way we think about debt is stopping us from solving the problem
As many as 3.2 million households, and more than 7 million people may be struggling with problem levels of debt, according to a new Centre for Responsible Credit study we commissioned with Unison. A large number of those households face debt levels that they may never clear. This debt leaves them…Read more…
Remembering past victims of slavery is crucial, but it’s not over yet
The 23 August is the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery – a day to remember the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Estimates vary but around 11 million people…Read more…
The post-crisis consumer debt boom is less explosive, but even more unaffordable
It is well known that economic growth has still been excessively reliant on households, even in spite of the unprecedented falls in real earnings of recent years. Today the TUC publishes analysis that shows just how heavy pressures on some households have become. The ‘Britain in the Red’ report, by…Read more…
Standstill wages mean over a million low-income families struggle with extreme debt
Today saw the publication of our (The Centre for Responsible Credit) final report from the joint TUC and Unison commissioned ‘Britain in the Red’ project. The project has been looking at available aggregate and household survey data to track the extent of household over-indebtedness: particularly…Read more…