Workers Memorial Day Wednesday 28 April 2021. Remembering all those killed while at work or who have died of work related diseases. It is also a campaigning day to fight for the living.
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Workers Memorial Day Wednesday 28 April 2021. Remembering all those killed while at work or who have died of work related diseases. It is also a campaigning day to fight for the living.
Check out this physical and FaceBook live comme…Read more…
Last week the TUC held an event on ‘Building back a better world’ highlighting how trade unions are working together internationally to counter the race to the bottom caused by trade agreements and…Read more…
The government has announced a consultation on a new flexi-job apprenticeship scheme involving apprentices experiencing their employment and training with a number of different employers.Read more…
With flowers for a vigil and a sombre tone
women gathered to pay their respects.
Why couldn’t she have been left alone?
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Members of Unite employed by the Students Union at Sheffield University have won a significant victory on zero hours and sick pay following a year long campaign. Hundreds of student workers, on…Read more…
Global field service engineers employed by Loughborough-based Brush Electrical Machines, owned by venture capitalists Melrose, are being balloted for strike action in response to ‘fire and rehire’…Read more…
I’m the Labour Party candidate for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, and currently work as legal aid solicitor and member of Unite. I represent people at risk of eviction from their homes,…Read more…
Doctors in Unite (DiU) GPs and health campaigners were out in full force on Thursday (April 22) at a socially distanced demo protesting the takeover of London GP practices by an American healthcare…Read more…
Last year, we launched a new module in the TUC’s leadership development programme, Leading Change. It expands our long running course to also look at how digital can support (and challenge)…Read more…
London bus operator Metroline has until 10 May to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign on’ policy – or it will face a summer of strikes, Unite warned today (Friday 23 April).
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After more than two years of consultation and engagement, it was good to see the Scottish Labour election manifesto launched today. I have been working part-time managing the process leading up to…Read more…
Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore previous rules and boost their profits by…Read more…
Concern over the use of lobbying continues to grow with this government. Reform is needed now and the sleaze must stop
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I am a fighter and I am standing for our people. I was born and raised in the Tees Valley, worked as a retail worker, youth worker and went on to start a charity here. It is the place that I love and…Read more…
A lack of planning for a global pandemic left the UK and the NHS exposed like never before
The article Urgent action needed to address chronic undersupply of NHS staff first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The workers of Kyrgyzstan have had very little experience of trade unionism. Under tsarist rule, unions were generally not tolerated. The Bolshevik revolution allowed unions to exist — on paper. But…Read more…
UNISON’s Local Service Champions awards celebrate the invaluable contribution local authority staff make to our lives
The article Our champions of champions first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Greater London UNISON Labour Link are supporting this phone bank on Saturday. If you are a UNISON and Labour Party member please join this session.
“Dear all please join me this Saturday at 11am for phone banking dialogue session. I’m the Labou…Read more…
Reports that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban, starting on May 1, in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute has sparked…Read more…