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Devastating impact
A campaign to stop lethal cuts to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been launched by Unite and the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS). Last autumn the Tories…Read more…
‘Yes to solidarity’
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Unite Policy Conference 2016 – Monday’s business
The main debate of the day was on Trident, where an Executive Council Statement was agreed. It contains stronger commitments to diversification than in the past, but means Unite won’t be calling for MPs to vote against Trident until there is a governme…Read more…
Making a difference to workers
Unite’s fourth ever Policy Conference began yesterday (July 11) in Brighton, with Unite’s executive committee chair, Tony Woodhouse, giving opening remarks in which he laid out Unite’s mission – to…Read more…
Shoulder-to-shoulder
In a powerful speech Unite general secretary Len McCluskey told Unite Policy Conference delegates yesterday (July 11) that the Labour Party must step away from the ‘squalid coup’ that has engulfed…Read more…
Remain united, remain strong
In a dynamic keynote address at policy conference yesterday (July 11), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey emphasised the importance of unity at a time in which, he said, “our country is riven by…Read more…
Enter, stage right: Workers on boards
“I want to see changes in the way that big business is governed. The people who run big businesses are supposed to be accountable to outsiders, to non-executive directors, who are supposed to ask the difficult questions, think about the long term and defend the interests of shareholders. In…Read more…
Protest against #RaceHate tonight 8.30pm Forest Gate Station
Protest against #RaceHate outside Forest Gate station E7 at 8.30pm tonight after the GBH attack on a local Black Labour Party canvasser yesterday. Organised by Forest Gate North Labour Party and local Councillors. All welcome.Read more…
Theresa May echoes key TUC policy calling for workers on company boards
Theresa May, now the only candidate for the Conservative leadership, has called for company boards to include both workers and consumer representatives. She has also called for shareholder votes on remuneration to be held annually and for votes on individual directors’ pay packages to be made…Read more…
Mesothelioma statistics show need for action
The HSE have published their fatalities statistics. Provisional figures indicate that 144 people were killed while at work in 2015/2016 – up from 142 in 2014/2015. This is the second year running…Read more…
If it was safe enough to choose our new PM, online voting is safe enough for trade unions
The Conservative Party leadership election has been rapid, dramatic and completely bewildering. And now with the withdrawal of the last remaining challenger to Theresa May it looks like there won’t even be a vote at all. But there’s one thing in this campaign that has been overlooked in…Read more…
Forest Gate North By Election – this Thursday 14 July
Dear Supporter
By-election – this Thursday
If you’ve got any free time please come and join us and Anam, our Labour Party candidate, in Forest Gate North. We’re also out 11am and 6pm Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week and all…Read more…
Europe’s trade unions come to London to show solidarity
This morning, the leaders of Europe’s trade unions met in the TUC General Council chamber – people like ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) General Secretary Luca Visentini and…Read more…
What now?
I was honoured to speak (twice) at a mass rally in support of Jeremy Corbyn in Brighton yesterday (once in an overcrowded Brighthelm Centre and once to those outside who had not been able to get in).The rally preceded the Annual General Meeting of the …Read more…
A Trade Union Response to Accumulation by Dispossession
Dear Colleagues,
The period spent at the GLI Summer School was wonderful – it provided an unsurpassed opportunity to hear from and debate with those at the frontline of some of the most important debates internationally of the future of organised labo…Read more…
Fairness for Ebola fight heroes
An NHS biomedical scientist and Unite member, who twice volunteered in Sierra Leone during the Ebola Crisis, has called for the 200 NHS workers and academics who risked their lives to combat the…Read more…
The impact of the crisis on collective bargaining in manufacturing in Portugal: between resilience and decentralisation
08 July 2016
By Isabel Távora, University of Manchester; and Pilar González, University of Porto
In the fifth article of our EU Comparative Series, academics from the University of Manchester and…Read more…
HE members to be balloted on action over pay
Summer ballot will see members asked to vote for strike to improve university employers’ 1.1% offer
The article HE members to be balloted on action over pay first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
EU workers in UK: where do I stand?
I’m an EU national, from Spain. I work as a hotel cleaner. On June 24 after the UK voted for Brexit, my employers gave me a pay cut. They said if I don’t like it I can go back to Spain. Where do I…Read more…