By Anthony Reuben Business reporter, BBC News It’s been a tough few weeks for the UK manufacturing sector. SSI Steel has closed its blast furnace and coke ovens in Redcar and Tata Steel is…Read more…
What’s going on in UK manufacturing?
By Anthony Reuben Business reporter, BBC News It’s been a tough few weeks for the UK manufacturing sector. SSI Steel has closed its blast furnace and coke ovens in Redcar and Tata Steel is…Read more…
Episode 6: ’18 rooms?! This is impossible to do!’
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week….Read more…
Every two minutes in the UK, a worker is made ill through stress
TUC publishes new guidance for dealing with stress at workRead more…
Union calls solidarity protest after member is nicked on demo
Member told to report to Eston Police Station this evening to receive cautionRead more…
Unions join with Greenpeace to lobby for low-carbon jobs
TUC says UK’s potential to be a world leader will not be achieved by slashing support for renewable energyRead more…
One-Party Councils, Accountablity & Corruption
Below is an email that I have sent to Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) in response to a recent report she circulated to I believe all local Councillors in England. The report is called “The Cost of One-Party Councils:…Read more…
Scottish National Party conference
UNISON Scotland was at the SNP conference in Aberdeen this weekend, making the case for public services, fair pay and promoting the campaign against the Trade Union Bill.There was an excellent turnout at our fringe meeting on fair work and poverty, held with our campaign partners CPAG Scotland and the Poverty Alliance. Hannah Bardell MP covered the impact of the Tories welfare cuts and taxRead more…
Canada: Stelco Steel: Crisis in U.S. Steel:
Steel, Not Steal! Keep Stelco Producing! Let’s Make It Happen! U.S. Steel’s insistence on severing its equity ownership of Stelco and turning it into a simple claim of debt on itself and…Read more…
Canada: Stelco Steel: Crisis in U.S. Steel:
Steel, Not Steal! Keep Stelco Producing! Let’s Make It Happen! U.S. Steel’s insistence on severing its equity ownership of Stelco and turning it into a simple claim of debt on itself and…Read more…
Thousands of Tata Steel jobs face heap
Peter Lazenby Morning Star Crisis looms for industry as factories expected to announce cuts THE future of Britain’s struggling steel industry was dealt another blow yesterday as India-owned Tata…Read more…
Roger Bannister – Sixth Time Lucky? (No)
To some the name Roger Bannister means the four minute mile. To others it means the perennial candidate for General Secretary of UNISON, who knows he can do well but that he will never win.
And he’s still at it.Although Roger Bannister barely scraped the twenty five branch nominations which are…Read more…
European Parliament latest to slam Thailand for harassing Andy Hall
Andy Hall, the British-born, Thailand-based migrant and trade union rights advocate, is back in court on Monday, 19 October. The latest court hearing is to decide whether to indict him for criminal…Read more…
The Devolution Deception
Osborne’s devo drive is about shifting the blame for austerity to powerless councils rather than broadening Britain’s democracy, believes GMB’s TIM ROACHE BEING handed the power to control services…Read more…
Our Tory Housing Future
Please read (and then weep) this examination of the new Tory Housing and Planning Bill on the blog Red Brick. In housing, as with the cuts in child tax credits, I don’t think that people “get” just how right wing and extremist this Government is behavi…Read more…
Solidarity! UNISON health workers join doctors’ rally in Belfast
Union members back fellow workers’ campaign for better conditionsRead more…
Unions call for government to save steel industry after latest jobs blow
A further 1,200 jobs expected to go in Scunthorpe following 2,000 lost in RedcarRead more…
ASLEF remembers those who died at Hatfield 15 years ago today
Union says we should also remember the lessons learned in a safety-critical industryRead more…
Warrington Print Workers Dispute 1983
Anarchist Holiday Camp 1915 – Wales
Anarchist holiday camp at Harlech (Wales) in 1915. The camp was
situated by the house of wealthy anarchist George Davison and it later
became Coleg Harlech.
Davison also financed Communist Clubs…Read more…