‘We all live 12 months of the year’ and need to paid for 12 months, local government conference delegates hear
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Delegates stress the need to build the union through organising
Raising the union’s profile is “like joining a gym: you don’t buy your ticket and then sit around waiting to get fit”
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Delegates remember murdered MP and Orlando club goers
UNISON president says people should ‘reflect on some of the language used’ in EU debate
The article Delegates remember murdered MP and Orlando club goers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Branch Poster
Health workers and charities unite to urge rethink on NHS bursaries
More than 20 health unions, charities and professional colleges sign open letter to prime minister
The article Health workers and charities unite to urge rethink on NHS bursaries first appeared on…Read more…
ETUC admits damage to “Social Europe”.
The ETUC has made a statement supporting “Remain” in the European Union of monopolies. Even so the second half admits the Cameron “deal” damages the concept of a “Social…Read more…
80th Anniversary of Dmitrov’s article equating fascism with war:
Georgi Dimitrov Fascism is War Written: July 18, 1936 Source: Dimitrov, Georgi Selected Works, volume 2, Sofia Press 1972, pp. 176-18 Two years ago, in August 1935, the Seventh Congress of the…Read more…
Trade unions in the Middle East: Opening remarks at the Svensson Prize panel
Last week the International Trade Union Confederation released its annual Global Rights Index. The Index reviews the state of workers rights in 141 countries. “The Middle East and North Africa,” it…Read more…
Global Union Warns Volkswagen To Stop Union Busting
For the first time in its history, IndustriALL Global Union (consisting of unions – including Unite – worldwide in manufacturing, energy and mining) has warned a transnational company…Read more…
Ford’s £80m EU loan boosts Turkey factory and Southampton closes
EU cash was made to Ford just before the company closed its Southampton plant – and it went to boost Transit production in Turkey. £10m of UK Government cash was approved to help British Ford…Read more…
UNISON Rule H.4.1
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If you don’t want to know more about UNISON Rule H.4.1 (or to have the surprise of what will happen in Brighton next Wednesday morning spoilt in any way) then look…Read more…
Protests in France:
Workers From Several Sectors Intensify Protests in France Paris, Jun 9 (Prensa Latina) The actions taken by workers from different sectors intensified in France on Thursday, a day before the…Read more…
Unidos Podemos Becomes Second Political Force in Spain
Madrid, June 5 (Prensa Latina) The leftist coalition Unidos Podemos gets away from the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and consolidates its second position, three weeks before of the general…Read more…
James O’Brien On The Murder Of Jo Cox MP
James O’Brien of LBC (the guy who nailed Nigel Farage) on the murder of Jo Cox perfectly captures the state of debate in Britain today The LBC presenter James O’Brien gave a monologue on his radio…Read more…
Solidarity with those killed in the Orlando massacre
James Baldwin wrote: “not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”. We, as trade unionists, have always faced down bigotry, campaigning against…Read more…
Politicians pay tribute to assassinated MPJo Cox
Tributes to Jo Cox have been pouring in from UK political parties and across the world after the popular Labour MP was killed in her constituency. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn praised the…Read more…
Staring into the abyss
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farage-defends-ukip-breaking-point-poster-queue-of-migrantshttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/16/alleged-killer-british-mp-was-longtime-supporter-neo-nazi-national-alliance I was pleased to hear that UNISON General Secretary…Read more…
No James Herriot idyll
The reasons why almost half the vets regularly think of leaving the profession – with nearly 10 per cent of young vets planning to leave as soon as possible – will be explored at the inaugural…Read more…
Stand and deliver!
Unite Community in Chesterfield staged on Monday (June 13) a protest outside the offices of Best Connection, one of two employment agencies that supplies Sports Direct with labour. Singing a…Read more…
‘Let’s carry on her work’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has offered Unite’s most sincere condolences to the family of Jo Cox, the MP who tragically lost her life in her constituency today (Thursday, June 16). …Read more…