Delegates describe struggling to survive on a low income as being ‘on the hamster wheel of life’ and ‘trying to glue our families together with Pritt Stick and a pair of old shoelaces’
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Delegates describe struggling to survive on a low income as being ‘on the hamster wheel of life’ and ‘trying to glue our families together with Pritt Stick and a pair of old shoelaces’
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In the last part of our Heart Unions week series, we look at why being part of a trade union has never been more important than now amid an unprecedented cost of living crisis. While working people’s…Read more…
LIEUTENANTWILLIAM TOZERClerk Ventnor District Council – Isle of WeightNALGO (now Unison) memberRoyal Field Artillery1st/5th Hants Bty.Died 5 May 1916Kut-el-Amara – Prisoner of WarBuried
BASRA MEMORIAL IRAQWW1
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY Friday, July 1…Read more…
NUPE branches at Southall and Ealing established in 1936Read more…
An industrial action ballot is on the cards after bosses at Wabtec in Birkenhead unveiled plans to ‘fire and rehire’ 130 workers on inferior pay and conditions. Unite the union said today (February…Read more…
‘And remembering to breathe’ – delegates detail the added burdens that the health crisis has placed on women workers
The article COVID-19 dominates as women share their pandemic experiences first…Read more…
Tug boats crews employed by Svitzer Marine at Teesport, the UK’s fifth largest container port, will begin strike action early next month in a dispute over pay. The company has attempted to impose a…Read more…
Opening debates see delegates discuss how to increase proportionality within the union, particularly for part-time women workers, who represent a large part of the membership
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Continuing our celebration of trade unions during Heart Unions week – today we look at the captivating story of how Unite took on bus giant Stagecoach and won, with a new strategy that turned a pay…Read more…
Many of us are worried about the recent Government announcement on “levelling up”, not least because it included a legislative commitment on Council pension funds to “publish plans for increasing local investment, including setting an ambition of up to…Read more…
Bus drivers and mechanics at the First Wessex depot in Weymouth, Dorset have won a significant pay victory which will see an extra 8.2 per cent in pay packets by November 2022. Unite the union said…Read more…
Workers at GE Steam Power’s historic factory in Rugby will begin pay strikes on Thursday (February 18), Unite has said. More than 75 Unite members, comprising nearly the entirety of the factory’s…Read more…
Unite members will continue to fight for substantial pay increases to protect their already squeezed living standards as inflation continues to soar, according to the latest figures published today…Read more…
“Choose for hope the sky serene, freedom Albion’s cliff’s so white,
And the eternal ocean’s green choose we for our native right:
Blue and white and green shall span England’s Flag republican.”
W. J. Linton, ‘The English Republic’, 1851.
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Sara Gorton says majority of full-time employees will be worse off under government plans
The article Pensions hike could be ‘a step too far’ for many NHS staff, says UNISON first appeared on the…Read more…
Christina McAnea says extra cash needed for inflation-busting wage rises
The article Inflation figures a nightmare for families and public services, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
This week, Unite is celebrating the TUC’s Heart Unions week. Each day this week on UniteLive, we hear from Unite members how being in our union has made a huge difference in their lives. The theme…Read more…
A few days ago the Guardian ran an article by Bernie Sanders entitled “We must do everything possible to avoid an enormously destructive war in Ukraine.” He’s certainly right about that – no…Read more…