Unite has teamed up with the Trussell Trust and the Mirror’s Real Britain in a Christmas appeal in support of foodbanks. On Wednesday (December 7), Labour MPs came to support the appeal…Read more…
When work doesn’t pay
More than 7m people from working families are living in poverty with high rents and insecure tenancies often to blame, a damning new study has found. The report, carried out by the New Policy…Read more…
Trans equality debated in parliament for first time is slow but sure progress
On December 1st, Transgender Equality was debated on the Floor of the House of Commons for the very first time. Maria Miller MP moved the motion calling on the Government to review its response to the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committ…Read more…
Women, crime and inequality
Official statistics show that you’re more likely to be a victim of violent crime or domestic abuse if you are a woman and if you live in a poorer part of the country. A woman living in one of the most deprived parts of the country is nearly four times as likely as a man…
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Get Glasgow moving
Campaigners are to lobby councillors at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport demanding affordable, joined-up public transport in Glasgow. And the Get Glasgow Moving campaign is also taking…Read more…
‘Tis the season… for the work Christmas party
For many of us, the annual Christmas party is a highlight of the work social calendar. A chance to pop on a little black dress or dust off our dancing shoes. A chance to catch up with colleagues – or…Read more…
Legal action threat
Unite has threatened to take legal action after staff working on Glasgow’s new waste power plant were locked out of the the site and paid off with just a week’s notice. Glasgow City Council…Read more…
People before profit
Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control. Members of Unite Community’s Dundee branch set up…Read more…
Step in the right direction
Unite along with other steel unions have yesterday (December 7) secured a commitment from Tata Steel to secure the future of jobs and production at Port Talbot and other steelworks across the UK….Read more…
Justice for Colombia
Theresa May should use her freshly renewed ties with Colombia’s president to aid the fragile peace process and help secure the release of political prisoners in the South American nation, said a…Read more…
‘Lots of work to do’
Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months: “What most people don’t realise about people whose benefits are…Read more…
‘We must help each other’
Unable to work, Karen’s only lifeline has been Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the disability and illness benefit which allowed her to get by. But her life suddenly turned upside down when her…Read more…
Brexit campaigners push for a bonfire of regulations (and rights)
MPs from the cross-party Exiting the EU Select Committee today heard evidence on how Brexit could affect the world of work, from the TUC’s Frances O’Grady, CBI’s Carolyn Fairbairn and former BCC Chair turned Brexit campaigner, John Longworth. We’ve heard a lot of promises in…Read more…
A bargaining win for disabled workers is what unions continue to fight for
To mark Disability History Month I thought this would be a good time to share the great progress unions have made on disability issues. Community have negotiated an adult apprenticeship agreement and…Read more…
‘Don’t mess with our pensions’
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – who staged a successful lobby of MPs today (December 6) over their pensions’ ‘betrayal’, have pledged to continue the fight into…Read more…
‘In the hands of the membership’
The Executive Council of Unite has today (December 6) agreed that the timetable for the election of the union’s general secretary will be brought forward to the first months of 2017. This will…Read more…
IMF in radical challenge to “accepted truths” on globalization
The IMF has published a new feature on globalisation. It promotes a radical debate, with contributions from leading economists and public figures – not least TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady – and no-one defends the status quo. This blog summaries the contributions, with a few observations of…Read more…
Haud the bus!
People across Scotland are backing Unite’s Haud the Bus campaign to bring buses back under public ownership. Unite’s Community section set up the ‘Haud the Bus’ campaign to protest against…Read more…
Rethink bank branch closures
Unite the union has urged MSPs to back a motion calling on RBS and other banks to think again about ‘slash and burn’ branch closures. Last week, RBS announced plans to close a further 86…Read more…
Passenger safety threat
Plans to strip Network Rail of complete control of England’s railway tracks are a retrograde step that raises the spectre of the Hatfield train crash in 2000 which happened under the watch of…Read more…