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A new survey will help your union to understand the problem and guide work on it
The article Stop violence at work: Please take the campaign survey first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite members joined other trade unionists at an International Workers’ Memorial Day event in Liverpool on Sunday (April 28) to ‘honour the dead and fight for the living’. They observed a minute of silence to pay tribute to all workers who have died or have been injured in work in the UK and across the […]
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This has been a busy Labour Movement few days with Workers Memorial Day on Friday, TUC Regional Council AGM yesterday (followed by my first ever visit to the Victoria & Albert Museum – which deserves a future post) and today, campaigning for …Read more…
(Text largely from my twitter account @grayee) “At @The_TUC LESE AGM in Congress House, London (home of the British Trade union movement) which I am attending as a @unisonglr delegate. After a minutes silence to remember comrades who have died i…Read more…
Ryan Holiday is a young-ish American marketing executive who seems to have stumbled upon stoicism and turned the philosophy of the ancient Greeks into a real money spinner. His books are fast reads and mega-best-sellers,…Read more…
Today we remembered workers who died in the course of their duties and also those who died trying valiantly to save them. Workers Memorial Day is on Sunday (28 April) this year but we decided to hold our annual event today. The venue was bes…Read more…
Ministers are entirely responsible for the funding crisis that’s putting schools in this impossible position.
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Ministers are entirely responsible for the funding crisis that’s putting schools in this impossible position.
The article Struggling schools forced to rely on teaching assistants as cheap cover for teachers first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Festival Of Debate, 2024. Louisa Bull, National Officer Graphical, Paper, Media & IT Sector. Unite The Union : AI: Threats & Opportunities For The Media April 25th, 2024I know other speakers are going to deal much more eloquently with the … Continue reading Read more…
On Thursday (April 25) striking canteen workers based at Drax Power Station descended on Drax’s AGM in London. Watch the inspiring film below to find out more about this brave group of women who are taking a big stand for fair pay. Film by Anna Burton
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In the week ahead of International Workers’ Memorial Day, UniteLive has explored this year’s theme – workers’ health and the climate crisis. Earlier this week, we looked at the impact of rising temperatures on two very different groups of workers – farmworkers and commercial kitchen staff. Today, we look back at a story that was […]
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Denise and I, as elected UNISON Community NEC members, have no hesitation recommending Clare, Malcolm and Joy as Service Group Executive members. Read more…
To launch our new report on managing Shadow IT in unions, author Simon Parry presented to a TUC Digital Lab webinar on the subject. Following on from our last webinar on wider cyber security issues, this 30 mins video is a deep dive on Shadow IT. Simon looks at what it is, what it means for … Continue reading Video: Shadow IT and unions: How do we keep innovation without adding risk?
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Drax shareholders heard Unite’s message loud and clear at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London on Thursday (April 25) as striking canteen workers based at Drax power station fight for fair pay. Unite reps and activists descended on the AGM in support of the canteen workers, who have been in dispute with their […]
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April 25, 1974 – and the world witnessed a 48-year authoritarian reign of terror that had stunted industrial development being swept aside in Portugal by a coup led by middle ranking army officers. Known as the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) they had become radicalised by the Iberian nations determination to retain its sprawling colonial empire, […]
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Shadow IT is the use of technology in an organisation without formal approval or oversight. It particularly refers to online, Software as a Service (SaaS) tools. That could mean reps using private Google accounts for union email, organisers setting up WhatsApp groups for member communication, or staff setting up new tools like Survey Monkey to … Continue reading Managing Shadow IT in unions
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Buried deep in the US Senate’s foreign aid support package for Ukraine is a fast track provision to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok unless it is sold by its Chinese owners ByteDance to a US-approved buyer, something ByteDance … Continue reading Read more…
In the week ahead of International Workers’ Memorial Day on Sunday (April 28), UniteLive turns its attention to this year’s IWMD theme – workers’ health and the climate crisis. Earlier this week in our IWMD series, we looked at the affect of rising temperatures on farming and forestry workers, who are toiling in increasingly unsafe […]
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This year since Workers Memorial Day is on a Sunday, my branch will be organising our annual wreath laying event on the Friday before (Friday 26 April at 1pm) outside the “Clasping Hands” Statue in Three Mills Green, Stratford, E3 3DU.This is the site …Read more…