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Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at our International Workers’ Memorial Day story, where we highlight the issue of suicide in construction and how Unite is making a big difference. — The construction sector has made significant strides in […]
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Thousands of ambulance workers, Unite members, carried on their fight for fair pay and for the future of the NHS this week, as they took their third day of strike action on Monday (February 6). Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined ambulance members on the picket line in Cardiff, where she urged both the UK […]
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As Unite members in the ambulance service in England and Wales take their third day of strike action today (February 6), Unite has released a new video that tells the facts about the ambulance strikes. You can view the video below: Film by Morag Livingstone – Livingstone Media
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Only a day after failed talks between health ministers and trade unions on health, rail and teacher disputes, the government today (January 10) published a sinister bill that aims to severely curtail the democratic right to strike. Condemned by trade unions as unworkable and undemocratic, proposals in the bill would mean some trade union members […]
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The second of ATL’s series of pre-election policy debates asked if another ‘lost generation’ was a price worthy paying for a dearth of effective careers guidance. On the panel were: Sara Caplan, a…Read more…
Sara Caplan is a Partner in the UK Consulting practice at PwC, leading the Education and Skills business. We all have an image in our heads of what career guidance has meant to us as individuals. I…Read more…
Liberty Pim is a sixth former at Charters School, Sunningdale It’s a shame to say that careers advice at school has so far only been an inconvenience to me, but it’s the truth. As a hardworking sixth…Read more…
What should the education landscape look like in 2020? This is what we’ll be asking in our five, pre-election debates. These debates expand on key themes identified by our members and which shaped…Read more…
John Holman is Emeritus Professor in the Chemistry Department, University of York, UK, and adviser in Education at the Wellcome Trust and the Gatsby Foundation. Career guidance is the key to social…Read more…
“We don’t want Serco exam factories” said Rick Muir, associated director of IPPR and a panelist at yesterday’s ATL debate on the role of profit in schools. This was the first in five debates ATL will…Read more…
Rick Muir is Associate Director for Public Service Reform at IPPR. The case for ‘for profit’ providers in education rests on weak empirical foundations. The international evidence on the performance…Read more…
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren is research director at the Centre for Market Reform of Education and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s also a…Read more…
Martin Johnson is former deputy general secretary of ATL and author of the TUC publication, Education Not for Sale. The real damage to England’s schools following the reforms of the last twenty-five…Read more…