Primary opening should also be held back
The article Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Primary opening should also be held back
The article Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
PRIVATE EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE
Service Number 944 Australian Infantry A.I.F 13th Battalion Killed in Action9 August 1915
Age 24 years Son of John Adam & Frances Julia Markillie 110 Dalmeny Avenue, Norbury
Buried 7th FIELD AMBULANCE C…Read more…
Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff
The article Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…
This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
Off message. I decided to try and ditch my “fair weather only” cycling reputation by biking in the winter gloom and cold to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. My favourite route to the south of the borough is via West Ham Park and the Greenway. Across …Read more…
Your humble blogger has added my name – for what it’s worth – to the campaign for Zero covid. Labour movement activists cannot remain simple spectators as we head towards the second year of a global pandemic which has cost tens of thousands of lives an…Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a special message of solidarity from the Maritime Union of India for striking Heathrow Airport…Read more…
Residents of Kent well remember when the Garden of England became the Toilet of England in the summer of 2015 after the migrant crisis and French labour disputes shut down the Dover-Calais border. At…Read more…
On BBC News this evening there was a report on the 104,000 vacancies in the UK care sector. There are justifiable worries that Brexit restrictions on low paid migrants will make this problem much worse. A owner of a care home was interview…Read more…
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) believes there is no Brexit that will benefit working people. In the circumstances, we welcome the European Union’s efforts to stop no-deal, guarantee…Read more…
First published more than 40 years ago, this book tells the unbelievable story of the CIA’s experiments with mind control. Some of these even pre-date the founding of the CIA itself. Its…Read more…
Blog by Professor David Bailey Birmingham Business School That a trade deal has been at been agreed at the last minute between the UK and EU comes as a huge relief for manufacturing sectors like…Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from the first day of strike action at the Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick site in November….Read more…
How do you get the public on board with policies that no one really supports? Easy – divide and rule, a signature and all-too predictable strategy right out of the Tory government’s playbook….Read more…
I listened to the final episode of Barack Obama reading from his first term Presidential memoirs, “A Promised Land” today on my smart phone and headphones while trying to walk off some Christmas cheer.
There are ten 15 minute abridged extr…Read more…
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “This deal is better than nothing, but not by much. It won’t protect jobs and puts hard-won workers’ rights on the line. As we come out of the pandemic,…Read more…
Commenting on the UK – EU trade deal Unite said the UKs manufacturing workers will be relieved ‘but government must not claim job done Steve Turner, assistant general secretary said: “The…Read more…
The arrest of Leyla Güvenexposes the reality of the Turkish State Tens of MPs and mayors, hundreds of leading HDP members and thousands of democratic politicians find themselves imprisoned in Turkey….Read more…
The right to picket is such a fundamental one that it is even protected in the Human Rights Act – it sits right alongside others such as the right to life and a fair trial. It is the most powerful…Read more…