After being pummelled by years of a twin crisis in funding and recruitment, access to NHS care is now dangerously out of reach for patients up and down the country. The Royal College of…Read more…
Save our local services: exciting new toolkit
UNISON has a long history of campaigning against unfair policies that hurt local workers and communities, from fighting for the national minimum wage to resisting cuts
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May The Force Be With You
Shaun McDermott is a PCSO on the community beat. His way of relaxing with the kids involves going to a galaxy far, far away…
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‘Just the tip of the iceberg’
Almost 200 rip-off employers who broke the law by paying their staff below the minimum wage have been named and shamed by the government. A total of £466,219 was scammed by 198 companies…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn nominated for Labour leadership by UNISON Labour Link Committee
The committee decision follows discussions at regional and national level, and a consultation of UNISON members who are affiliated to the Labour party. The consultation was carried out online. UNISON…Read more…
Health staff in Luton rally against attack on sickness leave
UNISON warns that move risks staff coming to work ill to avoid triggering process that could lead to dismissal – in a trust that has one of best sick-leave records in the region
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We need a properly funded NHS – make your voice heard
This week’s news that United Lincolnshire Hospital’s NHS Trust will be closing its A&E department in Grantham in the evenings due to staff shortages is, in the words of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, “disappointing, yet unsurprising”. The TUC and health unions, campaigners and think…Read more…
Treat workers fairly
Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary is to meet with shop stewards from the oil and gas industry, in the middle of the biggest North Sea dispute for a generation. Blaydon MP Dave Anderson will…Read more…
Support for Jeremy
Unite last night (August 10) confirmed its support for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. In a statement the union said, “Unite’s policy conference, made up of approximately 1,000…Read more…
Why the British labour movement should care about the coup in Brazil
Previously published in the Morning Star August 9th As world attention turns to Brazil for the Olympic Games, we need to shine a light on that country’s dismantling of democracy A coup is taking…Read more…
The neo-liberal reform of collective bargaining in Spain: its consequences for social dialogue
Miguel Martínez Lucio
10 August 2016
By Carlos J Fernández Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Rafael Ibáñez Rojo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; and Miguel Martínez Lucio,…Read more…
Migrant Workers: Byron betrayed its workers. The system betrays us all
Owen Jones Guardian Protesters at a branch of the Byron burger chain in London after a raid on undocumented workers. Byron: a company that milks the labour of migrant workers for profit, entraps…Read more…
Vote of confidence
The £1bn contract to build trains for the newly awarded East Anglian rail franchise by Derby-based Bombardier was hailed as ‘a vote of confidence’ in UK manufacturing by Unite today (August 10)….Read more…
‘Short sighted and short term’
Quality apprenticeships granting a proper qualification and offering pathways to high-skill, well-paid jobs – especially amid a sea of bogus training schemes for young people as they struggle…Read more…
Ongoing struggle
The 10th annual Leeds Pride festival and parade on Sunday (August 7) was supported by 40,000 people including many Unite lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) members and their friends and…Read more…
Keep guards on trains
For many years’ train travel was a no-no for certain groups of disabled people, even when accompanied. Today as the system becomes more accessible, albeit slowly, disabled people are facing the prospect of new barriers replacing those that we had broken down. Gone are the days when the only way for…Read more…
Cinema Workers Strike:
BECTU Strike Ballot at Brixton’s Ritzy Cinema BECTU Members are Voting in a Ballot for industrial action at The Ritzy Cinema. 9 August 2016 BECTU Members who work at the Ritzy cinema in Brixton are…Read more…
Eurostar staff announce August strikes
Image copyrightPA Eurostar rail workers from two unions are to take part in two concurrent periods of strike action this month in a dispute over their work-life balance. RMT members will walk out…Read more…
North Sea Offshore Workers Strike:
Fresh North Sea strike action to be held Dates for fresh strike action to be held by offshore workers this month have been announced. Unite and the RMT unions are representing workers involved in the…Read more…
Racism: A Preferred Policy of the Rich and their State
According to recent media reports, in the period just before and following the EU referendum in June, there was a 57% increase in the reporting of what are referred to as “hate…Read more…