As Black members’ conference is cancelled, higher education and women’s conferences move online. See full details here
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As Black members’ conference is cancelled, higher education and women’s conferences move online. See full details here
The article Conference updates – spring 2022 first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Help to celebrate the wider healthcare workers that support our NHS and help raise awareness of their vital contributions
The article It’s time to vote for your Health Heroes of 2022 first appeared…Read more…
I am no longer in the Local Government Service Group for London but if I was, I would vote to nominate Sonya and Clara!
“Dear Branches
We are writing to you to request your branch nominations in the upcoming 2022 SGE Elections
Who are…Read more…
The National Audit Office did a report on local government financing in November of last year. It provides and overview … MoreRead more…
About 100 HGV drivers at premium aviation catering firm DO & CO at Heathrow are being balloted for strike action over pay and employment conditions, following scrutiny of its stewardship of…Read more…
The failure of Coventry council to tackle low pay rates for its refuse collection drivers has resulted in an escalation in strike action. It has been announced today (January 17) that strikes will…Read more…
Economists and researchers at the world famous NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) will stage a two week strike in a row over two years of below inflation pay offers. The…Read more…
The Holocaust Memorial Trust has produced free guides and resources to help your UNISON branch organise events and activities
The article Mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day with a focus…Read more…
Background In late 2021, new regulations were agreed by parliament making it unlawful for an employer delivering Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated activities, to deploy an unvaccinated worker…Read more…
Gill and I went for a favourite walk in Essendon and Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Only 4.5 miles but lots of ups and downs with varied views. 45 Minutes by car (public transport access not great) from East London.
The walk is detaile…Read more…
This afternoon we were out “on the knocker” with our local MP Lyn Brown (and Cara – the Labour attack dog).
We had 98 contacts, who were not only overwhelmingly Labour but I can honestly report that I have never heard so much anti-tory comments …Read more…
This is a motion submitted by my trade union branch to Greater London Regional Council. Unless we get decent pension provision for all workers, you will indeed have to “work till you drop”. UNISON must review and investigate what do do to tackl…Read more…
Why 2022 is ‘an exciting opportunity to showcase the skills, experience and qualities that disabled people bring to the workplace and to society’
The article Introducing the year of disabled workers…Read more…
Unite the union is calling on members of the House of Lords to back amendments to the Health and Care Bill that would remove some of the worst aspects of legislation that will destabilise and…Read more…
More than 400 Nottingham bus drivers are celebrating an ‘excellent’ pay win negotiated by Unite. NCT wages will now increase by £1 an hour, meaning drivers will see their pay rise between 8.3 per…Read more…
Exactly five years ago, Carillion – a giant construction and services empire built on hoovering huge government contracts – spectacularly collapsed, with a debt pile of £7bn and only £29m left in the bank. More than 3,000 directly employed workers were made redundant, with many more in the supply chain losing their jobs; construction companies […]
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Employers are using desperate measures to cope with desperate times. But stretching dwindling numbers every thinner cannot solve this staffing crisis.
The article NHS staff-shortage crisis needs…Read more…
This month, I returned to familiar territory when asked to write an overview of UK energy policy as part of a wider European project. Energy policy can be quite parochial, particularly in…Read more…
With one in four jobs at stake, Unite demands company bosses must ‘open the books’ before any negotiations can take place. Union chiefs say OVO bosses have precipitated the crisis by “blundering and…Read more…
“inUNISON is a brand new blogspace created by UNISON Activists for UNISON activists. We aim to be a one-stop site, providing news and view’s on all things UNISON, but we also hope to do more than that. Over the last couple of years, due to the p…Read more…