Around 270 Stagecoach Bluebird bus drivers in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire have won an inflation beating 10 per cent pay deal over eighteen months The workers voted to accept the pay deal following…Read more…
Langford Lodge workers vote to strike
Unite members working at Langford Lodge, the successful Crumlin-based aeropspace and defence company in Northern Ireland, have voted overwhelmingly for strike action on the issue of pay and an equal…Read more…
Coventry residents send message to council
A new poll reveals that over two thirds of Coventry’s residents back the striking HGV drivers’ “reasonable” pay demands. The poll comes as striking bin workers from Coventry and their supporters are…Read more…
Blog: Use Thursday to hit the Tories in the ballot box
As service users as well as providers, UNISON members know the challenges faced by councils after a decade of Conservative cuts
The article Blog: Use Thursday to hit the Tories in the ballot box…Read more…
Great Orme walk, Llandudno
Off message – Normally Gill and I would go walking most Sundays but due to Council elections I have been out campaigning this Bank holiday weekend. So I will post instead on another marvellous North Walian walk from Easter.
We have done th…Read more…
Vote Malcolm Gray & Clare Penny-Evans for UNISON Northern Region Community SGE Elections (Housing Associations and Voluntary Sector)
If you work for Housing Associations or the Voluntary sector in UNISON’s Northern Region, you should have (or shortly will) receive a postal ballot and either/or electronic ballot for this important election. This is a quick plug for “cost of liv…Read more…
Happy May Day!
See historic example of what UNISON predecessor UNION & Labour Councils can do for their workforce) Newham Labour Labour Unions @LondonLabour #MayDay Labour History Group
“West Ham’s Labour Council which ran West Ham Mental Hospital (Goodmayes) an…Read more…
West Ham then Plaistow West & Canning Town East with Lyn Brown MP (“We Stand with Ukraine” Street)
Canvasing pictures from West Ham Ward this week and the new Plaistow West & Canning Town East Ward today with our local MP Lyn Brown.
In West Ham ward we did the two tower blocks in Leather Gardens (many thanks to Jordan from UNISON Volunta…Read more…
Unite May Day message
This is a day to remember the importance of collective organisation. A day to remember that for trade unions, power comes from the workplace. May Day is Labour Day. Workers’ Day. An opportunity to…Read more…
Vote Sonya for UNISON London Local Government & Julie and Anette for London Health – your ONEUNISON “Cost of Living” campaigners
We have really important elections in UNISON just starting. From yesterday, ballot papers would have started to drop through the letter boxes of Local Government, Health and other service Groups up and down the country. Soon there will also be e…Read more…
Heathrow baggage system engineers in pay win
A strike by Heathrow baggage system engineers employed by Vanderlande Industries has been averted. Unite said 160 of its members at Vanderlande had voted overwhelmingly for Easter holiday strike…Read more…
‘Great win for Biffa members’
Planned refuse collection strikes by members of Unite employed by Biffa on the outsourced Manchester council contract have been called off following an improved pay offer. The strikes were due to…Read more…
UK councils braced for summer shutdowns
Councils across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are braced for summer shutdowns as local authority worker strikes spread, Unite has warned. Workers in Hackney, Rugby and across Northern…Read more…
Sainsbury’s Covid absence policy slammed
A change to Sainsbury’s Covid absence policy that will come into force on 1 May puts both workers and shoppers at risk, Unite said today (April 29). Currently Sainsbury’s staff who have Covid are…Read more…
‘A lifetime’s mission’
Scores of Unite members gathered in Liverpool at the Hod Carrier statue, the UK’s first ever worker’s memorial, to pay tribute to fallen workers on International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) this…Read more…
No Ford plant will be left behind in path to electrification
Unite has pledged to ensure that no Ford plant in the UK will be left behind as the company moves to electrify its vehicles. Unite’s primary focus is in securing the long-term future of Ford’s…Read more…
National rail strike threat
The possibility of a national rail worker strike is growing following warnings from three trade unions over jobs, pay and conditions at Network Rail and train operators. Unite, RMT and TSSA…Read more…
Making the most of mobile for union digital
One of the biggest shifts in digital over the last decade has been the move to mobile. The overwhelming majority of working age Britons now own a smartphone, and it’s given them a new and much…Read more…
Workers Memorial Day 2022: UNISON Community Activists Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living
This morning at 11am in Three Mills Green, Stratford, London, E3 at the “Clasping Hands” statue, we remembered those who had died at work due to accidents and work related ill heath. More deaths each year than resulting from war.
The UNISO…Read more…
Carlisle drinks can manufacturer workers to strike
Workers at the Crown Bevcan soft and alcoholic drinks can factory in Carlisle will strike over an ‘unacceptable’ pay offer from the company. Around 200 workers, members of Unite will stage two 24…Read more…