Millions of people were told to stay home on Friday (February 18) as Storm Eunice battered large swathes of the UK, with record-breaking 122mph gusts recorded on the Isle of Wight this morning. Storm…Read more…
Safe nuclear waste disposal
Unite has welcomed the publication of the annual Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) report. Scientists around the world agree that a GDF – which will contain nuclear waste deep underground in…Read more…
Ministers need to get tough with employers over sexual harassment, says UNISON
Christina McAnea will tell Women’s National Conference that new laws needed to tackle bosses who don’t protect staff
The article Ministers need to get tough with employers over sexual harassment,…Read more…
When the cupboard is bare: Impact of low pay revealed by conference
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’
The article…Read more…
Heart Unions week: ‘Being in a union made the difference’
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…
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM TOZER – VENTNOR WW1 – BASRA
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
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National Union of Public Employees – NUPE Southall
NUPE branches at Southall and Ealing established in 1936Read more…
NUPE Officers 1936 – National Union of Public Employees
London County Council 1934 – Where Labour Rule – Herbert Morrison LCC
Wabtec engineering staff in strike vote
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…
COVID-19 dominates as women share their pandemic experiences
‘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 boat crews to strike
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…
UNISON women convene for annual conference
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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Heart Unions week: ‘We took on the company – and won’
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…
Boris “eyes up” council pensioner money to invest in his “vanity” infrastructure projects?
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…
Weymouth bus drivers celebrate pay win
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…
GE Steam Power workers to strike
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…
‘A crisis not of our making’
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…
English Republican Flag
“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.
Give u…Read more…
Pensions hike could be ‘a step too far’ for many NHS staff, says UNISON
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…