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Long running strike action on the West Midlands Metro has ended after workers agreed an improved pay offer. The 170 members of Unite began strike action in mid-October. The new pay deal was offered after Unite announced that the workers would take all-out industrial action from the end of November. Under the pay deal, which […]
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Discussions between NHS leaders in Scotland on abandoning the health service’s founding principles by having wealthy patients pay for treatment are ‘sickening’, Unite said on Monday (November 21). The discussions, revealed by the BBC, were recorded in draft minutes of a meeting held by NHS Scotland health board chief executives in September. Unite general secretary […]
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Stephen Smellie, NEC member from Scotland, attended COP27 as part of the International Trade Union Confederation delegation. Here he reflects on the outcome.
The article Blog: COP27 – One step forward… first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The leader of Unite has slammed the automotive industry and the government for failing to prepare for the green transition. Joint research from the University of Birmingham and Unite reveals that almost a third (29.2%) of auto workers are ‘not confident’ that their workplace will survive the transition to electrification. Unite is calling for an […]
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Workers employed by Arrow XL will demonstrate outside the company’s head office in Liverpool this week, as they ramp up their industrial action campaign in response to the company’s poverty pay rates. The demonstration will take place on Tuesday, November 22 from 10.30 am at Logistics Group Holdings Ltd, Atlantic Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 […]
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There could be free parking for New Year sales shoppers across Hounslow, Ealing and Brent if workers employed by the ‘Scrooge’ outsourcer, Serco vote for strike action. The strike ballot for Hounslow opens today (November 21) and workers in Ealing and Brent begin voting on Tuesday, November 22. The ballot results are due from December […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham spoke out after last week’s Autumn Statement, in which chancellor Jeremy Hunt sent out a clear message that he was not on the side of working people or their communities. In the video below, Sharon explains: Sharon also commented: The Chancellor has made choices which put him on the side […]
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A recent letter from Steve Barclay, secretary of state for health and social care, to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), gives the strongest indication yet that NHS staff will be offered a two per cent pay rise for 2023. The letter, dated 16 November, states that ‘in the current economic context, it is particularly […]
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TUC reaction to Autumn Statement 2022. Until we have a government that has a serious plan to put work before wealth, we look set to remain trapped in the doom loop of austerity politics.
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Teaming up with Norwegian trade unionists, the Baker’s union and Unite, young workers are coming together for the TUC Winter Patrol to engage workers across the poorly paid and precarious hospitality industry.
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has written to the Ofgem CEO, Jonathan Brearley , and Chair, Martin Cave, to demand that the Regulator clamp down on excessive profiteering by energy distributors. ‘Unite investigates’ – the union’s research and investigation arm – has established that last year the major energy suppliers, distributors, and generators made £15.8 […]
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With the World Cup now underway, UNISON has published new guidance on how workplaces can support survivors of domestic abuse
The article World Cup: Women prepare for increased domestic abuse first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Second wave of action for HE workers
The article Thousands of university workers strike again over wages first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Long-running dispute will go for definitive ruling in highest court
The article Supreme Court hearing to decide strike protection, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.
On Saturday I went canvassing in Canning Town South ward with our local MP, Lyn Brown and Unmesh our local Assembly member and Councillors Das Gupta and Griffiths. The ward has been transformed in recent times by the building of so man…Read more…
The trans caucus, together with Northern Ireland and North West regions, pick up the first awards since COVID began
The article LGBT+ awards make a welcome return in Edinburgh first appeared on the UNISON National site.
UNISON president Andrea Egan says the Tories “have our rights in their sights”
The article ‘We need to continue the fight … let’s join the winter of solidarity’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
What follows is the text of a post which I wrote for the excellent LabourHub Blog following the alarming news that the Labour Party membership of UNISON President Andrea Egan had been terminated;Just when you think that the unjustified administrative a…Read more…
Picture is of local volunteers, Council officers and Councillors about to go out at midnight on Thursday to take our part in the UK annual nationwide street count of people sleeping rough. We also had observers to verify our results from the civi…Read more…
LGBT+ delegates take aim at the “exhausting,” negative press coverage of trans people, and the horror of damaging conversion ‘therapy’
The article Terfs, ‘toxic opinions’ and an obsession over who’s in what toilet first appeared on the UNISON National site.