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A powerful video on the history and importance of workers health and safety. Warning: it does contain some disturbing scences. Hat tip unison health and safety.
This year I am organising an event to mark Workers’ Memorial Day at the statute in Three M…Read more…
The High Pay Centre launched the findings of some interesting polling yesterday, showing that social measures like the Working Time Directive and restrictions on bankers’ bonuses introduced by the European Union were popular with British people, but not well-understood to originate in Europe….Read more…
Union says proposal to abolish the Department of Energy and Climate Change would lead to chaosRead more…
PCS members angry at low wages set to take action from end of the monthRead more…
PCS members in National Museum Scotland today begin a two-day strike over the withdrawal of their weekend working allowance. Staff employed since 1 January 2011 do not get the weekend working…Read more…
TUC analysis shows party has chosen to prioritise unfunded tax giveaways to the wealthyRead more…
Union to write to all parties to seek assurances that journalists will be granted fair access to general election eventsRead more…
If you have not received your ballot papers by (14 April) you should ring 0800 0857 857. Lines open 6am to midnight, Monday to Friday and 9am to 4pm on Saturday. Ballot closes 15 May.Check out other national, regional and Black Members recommendations …Read more…
“Fight for your rights and join us at our Central London rally as we campaign to stop the sell-off of our NHS, for secure jobs – tackling insecurity and abolishing zero hour contracts, decent wages, rights at works –making employment justice a right not a privilege and solving the cost of living…Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
UNITElive spoke yesterday (April 14) with Cardiff mum and Unite member Jo Stevens, a prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour in Cardiff Central. Jo was hitting the campaign trail in Wales with…Read more…
We all know about Amazon’s lackadaisical approach to paying its taxes, and its “hire and fire” attitude to the workers who run its giant warehouses, where impossible work standards mean staff are…Read more…
UCU members fear 150 job could goRead more…
The Justice Committee recently concluded their first major inquiry on prisons planning and policies in this last parliament, focusing on measures the Ministry of Justice has used to reduce the ‘operational costs’ of the system. The inquiry report reveals the huge strain that the system is under, as…Read more…
Nigel Farage had long sought to throw off the spectre of what he himself described as the “drivel and nonsense” of UKIP’s 2010 manifesto. Sadly for the him the 2015 version…Read more…
Protest action has taken place in 20 cities across the UK in support of low paid workers in Fast Food restaurants demanding an end to poverty pay and union rights. The Fast Food Forward…Read more…
At the Arcola theatre, Hackney, Natalie Bennett launched a Green party manifesto based on the wholesale rejection of austerity – “that no one in the world’s sixth richest economy should not be able to put food on their own table or have a roof over their head.” Bennett challenged the notion of an…Read more…
As befits the seeming ‘good-economic-news-only’ environment in the run up to the election, last Friday’s REC (The Recruitment & Employment Confederation) report on jobs was issued under the banner: “Stronger growth of staff placements in February” But in the last section of the…Read more…
On 15 May last year, fast food workers around the world walked off the job to demand better pay and conditions. This year they’re back for more.Read more…
On the day (April 15) that McDonalds workers in America are protesting against poverty pay and appalling working terms, Unite members stood in solidarity at over 20 demonstrations throughout the UK….Read more…