There needs to be a root and branch look at Police Scotland’s budget next year. We can no longer paper over the cracks caused by badly managed centralisation.
Police Scotland’s finances got off to a…Read more…
This is a full-scale attack on the NHS, the junior doctor contract is just the start
Let’s be crystal clear (something the Secretary of State for Health has been consistent in failing to do), the junior doctors’ contract dispute is about much more than the terms and conditions…Read more…
Let’s not forget the Chancellor’s low-key but significant boost to spending in 2014
Ahead of tomorrow’s spending review and in the wake of last week’s so-called ‘terrible’ government borrowing figures, a quick reminder that the government’s ‘long-term plan’ is not quite what it seems. The chart below shows the annual growth rates of government spending (wages and salaries,…Read more…
High price of failing to help
This government must now decide which it prefers – its party’s ideology or serious action to save UK manufacturing, says Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, as he addressed the Save our Steel…Read more…
UNISON says national insurance increase will rob public sector workers
UNISON is today (Tuesday) warning George Osborne that scrapping tax rebates on pensions will leave more than five million public sector workers worse off. The rise in National Insurance (NI) payments…Read more…
Four Seasons homes closure
UNISON informed that company plans to close seven care homes across Northern Ireland
The article Four Seasons homes closure first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Hunt’s quack remedy
“The NHS is struggling to cope with five day working,” says Dr Ron Singer, chair of Doctors in Unite. “How does Jeremy Hunt think it can cope with seven day a week working?” And, of course,…Read more…
Pay result for Wales’ farm staff
Farmworkers in Wales are set to be awarded a hefty six per cent cumulative pay rise through an Interim Agricultural Wages Order, leaving England’s agricultural workers further behind after the…Read more…
Public health at risk
Bowing to pressure from NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, health experts, unions and the public, chancellor George Osborne finally caved – the Treasury announced today (November 24) that £3.8bn in…Read more…
Ramifications of Anti-Terror Measures in France
The French President’s Irrational Proposal to Legalize Exceptional Measures and Violation of Rights by Rewriting the French Constitution In France, the country that gave humanity the…Read more…
Opposition to Trade Union Bill continues
Hyndburn council and Welsh government are latest bodies to oppose attack on rights of their workers
The article Opposition to Trade Union Bill continues first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Big lottery robbery
Young people’s mental health interventions, women’s refuge projects and food banks could come under threat as the government may well look to cut £320m from the Big Lottery Fund. The services that…Read more…
Making work better – the key to the productivity puzzle
Politicians and policy makers talk a lot about the UK’s poor productivity record, with output per hour still below pre-crisis levels and well behind France, Germany and the USA. Narrowing the productivity gap with our competitors is worth a staggering £21,000 per year for every household in the UK….Read more…
Rights under attack
The Conservatives’ authoritarian trade union Bill will make England’s workers the least protected not only in Europe but also within the British Isles, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned…Read more…
Hidebound by ideology
George Orwell once noted, “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” It perfectly sums up…Read more…
Campaigning to end violence against women and girls
25 November is UN day to eliminate violence against woman and girls
The article Campaigning to end violence against women and girls first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Campaigning to end violence against women and girls
25 November is UN day to eliminate violence against woman and girls
The article Campaigning to end violence against women and girls first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Politicians put school support staff in spotlight
Show of support for UNISON’s Stars in our Schools campaign
The article Politicians put school support staff in spotlight first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Politicians put school support staff in spotlight
Show of support for UNISON’s Stars in our Schools campaign
The article Politicians put school support staff in spotlight first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
UNISON joins alliance to defend affordable housing
Housing and Planning Bill will lead to social cleansing, claims campaign group
The article UNISON joins alliance to defend affordable housing first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…