Patients in England are facing the worst wait times since records began, with one in six patients having waited longer than four hours in A&E to be seen in October. The latest figures…Read more…
Young people’s hopes for Labour
Unite’s national body for young workers met yesterday to talk about what they would like to see from a Labour government.
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Steepest rise ever
A major spike in food bank use has prompted the nation’s leading supplier of emergency food parcels to call on politicians of all parties to ensure they pledge to protect people from hunger —…Read more…
‘Precisely what is needed’
Unite has welcomed Labour’s rescue plan for the NHS, which will plough £26bn in real terms to resuscitate a health service on its knees after a decade of cuts under successive Tory governments….Read more…
‘Clear message’
Bromley library workers, who are in the sixth month of strike action against their controversial employer social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL), have unanimously…Read more…
‘Two-tier’ health service slammed
Unite will shine a spotlight on the accelerating privatisation of GP services and its detrimental impact on patients at a demo in Tower Hamlets in London on Thursday (November 21). Unite has…Read more…
‘Why not us?’
Unite is gearing up to mark Living Wage Week with demos outside two London hotels on Wednesday (November 13) as the union seeks to highlight low pay in the hospitality sector. The demos,…Read more…
‘Milestone’ for British Steel
Unite has cautiously welcomed news that the Chinese company Jingye is set to purchase British Steel. Jingye has said it will invest about £1.2bn over the next decade and pledged to…Read more…
Our economy isn’t delivering for working families
Working families across the North East are struggling to survive and child poverty is continuing to increase. But there is plenty the next government can do to fix this.Read more…
Thousands receive pay rise after Living Wage hike
More than 200,000 workers are set to get a pay rise on Monday (November 11) after the charity the Living Wage Foundation upped its rate to £9.30 an hour. The Foundation, which annually sets…Read more…
Outsourcing – Five ways to fix it for working families
We need to end this highly exploitative model of public service delivery.Read more…
A typical union member?
A recent study reveals some uprising – and some less uprising – insights into union membership in Wales.Read more…
Manifesto for the North – a pathway to great jobs in every part of the country
The bold vision launched by business and political leaders today can unlock the economic potential of the whole of the North.Read more…
Working class families have had enough – at this election, we want better
At this general election, the TUC urges working people to use our votes to fix Britain and make politicians put working class families first.Read more…
Evils of insecure work
Ken Loach’s new film Sorry We Missed You confronts the viewer with the depressing reality of being caught in the grinding poverty of low paid insecure work.
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Can we afford a shorter working week? Microsoft think so
Can we afford a four-day week? Microsoft certainly think so. This week, the tech giant announced that a four-day week trial in their Japanese office had boosted productivity by 40 per cent.Read more…
Soaring insolvency rates the latest symptom of Britain’s broken economy
Individual insolvencies have drastically risen over the past year as the UK’s household debt crisis continues to grow.Read more…
UK economy has fallen into relegation zone of OECD countries since 2017 election
The government cannot hide from the dismal performance of the economy on its watch – and that’s against the very low bar of the austerity decade.Read more…
A tsunami of work-related stress threatens to engulf working people
Today is National Stress Awareness Day. It’s an opportunity to think about the issue of work-related stress and its underlying causes, how we can help individual workers and businesses deal with it,…Read more…
After a decade of austerity, higher public spending is long overdue
Glib narratives about 1970s levels of public spending are a distraction – more government investment is the best way to deliver for working class families.Read more…