Good news. I was able to book my Covid vaccine jabs today on NHS site in 10 minutes. 1st dose next Sunday.
Westfield is just 15 minutes cycle away from my home.
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‘Slap in the face’ NHS pay proposal
An industrial action ballot is one of the options that Unite will be considering as it steps up its campaign for a fair and decent pay rise for NHS staff. Unite will be liaising with other health…Read more…
‘We’re having the vaccine’
As Unite launches its ‘get a jab’ campaign, where the union is calling on members to get the vaccine and encourage vaccine uptake, we’ve put together a special film below. Watch,…Read more…
Accelerating vaccine programme ‘a bridge to a safer world’
Unite’s ‘standing army’ of 30,000 workplace reps is being mobilised to play its part in promoting the benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine to workmates across the UK. Unite today (March 5) launched a…Read more…
Dismay at plans to make a university pension unaffordable
UNISON is concerned that many members won’t be able to afford to save for their retirement under proposed changes
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Stand up against ‘derisory’ pay rise for NHS staff, says UNISON
Christina McAnea urges public to join mass slow hand clap next Thursday
The article Stand up against ‘derisory’ pay rise for NHS staff, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
World Book Day: “Built on a Lie” by Owen Walker
Today is “World Book Day” and I have started reading this dissection of the fund manager, Neil Woodford, who was once lorded as “Man who made Middle England Rich”. His investment funds then went spectacularly bust, while he has apparently retaine…Read more…
DARKNESS AT SUNRISE: UK CARE HOMES SHIFTING PROFITS OFFSHORE?
Following on from this report on the high risk to investors (and their staff and residents) of exposure to care homes, we get this daming exposure of UK companies offshoring their profits owned by a Canadian public sector pension fund.
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One per cent pay rise “is the worst kind of insult”
The public will be horrified. NHS staff will think it’s some kind of joke
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Unite meets Kwarteng in save GKN plant talks
Representatives of Unite, along with Jack Dromey MP, today (Thursday 4 March) met with Kwasi Kwarteng MP, the secretary of state for business enterprise and industrial strategy, about the future of…Read more…
Unite win for members
Hestia Housing and Support workers have succeeded in their campaign to force their employer to pay the London Living Wage, Unite said today (Thursday 4 March).
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‘Immoral’ fire and rehire plans brewing
Plans to ‘fire and rehire’ nearly 300 workers at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) site in Banbury, Oxfordshire could lead to industrial action at the coffee factory, Unite warned today (Thursday March…Read more…
Bus stop
Unite’s London bus driver members have been advised to stop driving if their bus becomes overcrowded, to prevent the transmission of Covid-19.
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Give all furloughed workers access to training
The TUC is calling for the Job Retention Scheme to be extended until the end of 2021 to safeguard jobs and people’s income.Read more…
The Chancellor mustn’t gamble with the recovery
This budget could be a chance to give people real hope for the future. The Chancellor must not fall short. Read more…
Workers lose as the Chancellor gambles on recovery
The Chancellor made a dangerous bet on the economy bouncing back on its own, when he should have acted to create jobs.Read more…
Social care reform can’t be put off
Care home residents, their families and care workers will feel angry at the absence of a plan
The article Social care reform can’t be put off first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
A Budget of ‘spin, gimmicks and dangerous wheezes’
Reacting last night to the Budget statement delivered by chancellor Rishi Sunak (Wednesday, March 3) Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned that the government’s flagship freeports policy could…Read more…
UK Budget 2021 – Schizophrenic or maybe not
Depending on who you read in today’s UK budget analysis, the Chancellor has either gone full-blown John McDonnell or is returning to austerity. You would think both cannot be right, and in my…Read more…
Many thanks to my UNISON Branch for re-nominating me for our NEC
This evening my UNISON Greater London Housing Associations branch executive agreed unanimously to re-nominate me for the Community General NEC Seat and Denise Thomas for the Community NEC Female seat. The branch represents over 3000 members in Greater …Read more…