Cargo workers at British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the bitter dispute over the company’s plans to fire and rehire its entire workforce and re-employ them on…Read more…
Unite GS Len McCluskey in warning shot over Brexit deal
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged the Labour Party to avoid sitting on the fence on a Brexit deal after Labour has in recent days refused to rule out abstaining on a forthcoming…Read more…
Sainsbury’s ‘acting like Scrooge’
Unite has accused Sainsbury’s of ‘acting like Scrooge’ by insisting that staff come in on Boxing Day after working extended opening hours in the run to up to Christmas. Sainsbury’s has agreed to…Read more…
Wigan and Leigh rehab workers win long-running dispute
We Are With You staff will now be paid in line with NHS pay rates until at least 2022 – and the company has also recognised UNISON
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Huge back pay victory for refuse workers
Unite has secured a huge pay victory for forty refuse workers winning them substantial back pay. The refuse workers, employed by employment agency Templink and engaged by Serco on Sandwell…Read more…
NHS members can help green the service in England
UNISON is helping work toward making the NHS in England meet its net zero target – and wants to hear from members working in the service
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The costs of loyalty
I’ve blogged a couple of times previously about the peculiar messaging around consumer ‘loyalty’. The repeated used of the phrase ‘loyalty penalty’, and the message that ‘loyalty doesn’t pay’ from both consumer groups and regulators feels very odd to m…Read more…
The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tomorrow and Tuesday I am taking part in a UNISON ERA (Employment Rights Act) refresher training n zoom.
As part of the preparation for the courses the Tutor from (conel.ac.uk) has asked us to watch beforehand this marvellous video of the wr…Read more…
Can our unions resist a national pay freeze?
One thing about having been blogging here for so long is that I can look back ten years and see that, in the run up to Xmas 2010 our movement was just beginning to gear up for action against the (then) threatened austerity measures of the new Coalition…Read more…
Post 2nd Lockdown circular walk around Little Baddow, Essex
Off message and hat tip to “Walking in Essex” by Peter Aylmer but today Gill and I went for a lovely 5 mile walk around Little Baddow, Essex, which is around 45 minutes drive from Forest Gate. The full walk is 10 miles but we split it in two.&nbs…Read more…
Labour must support the Bolivian people
Yesterday some of us managed to have a very enjoyable Xmas social organised by Brighton Pavilion Constituency Labour Party (CLP). This got me thinking about what socialists should be doing in the Labour Party in the coming year.
We very much ne…Read more…
“Why you should get a seasonal flu vaccine this year”
Following this advice from Public Access Gill and I went for a free seasonal flu injection at our local Pharmacy.
“Last month Public Health England warned that people who had been infected with both flu and COVID-19 faced serious conse…Read more…
Newham Council Pension Fund wins LAPF “Good Governance Award”
Good Governance AwardWinner: London Borough of NewhamFinalistsEssex Pension FundLondon Borough of NewhamWest Midlands Pension FundI was really pleased to see that Newham won this award on Tuesday. Great work by the Pension Committee C…Read more…
Local Government’s financial crisis – how should Labour respond?
Although it is now nearly a year since I was made redundant, I continue to engage with my UNISON Branch as a volunteer caseworker and I obviously care about the organisation for which I worked for 33 years. I was therefore concerned to see the latest r…Read more…
‘Rolls-Royce is at the heart of Barnoldswick’
Striking workers and the local community will come together on Saturday (December 5) to hold a car rally in support of the Rolls-Royce workers at Barnoldswick who have been on strike since last month…Read more…
Jersey Airport job losses rethink call
The redundancy programme involving Swissport workers at Jersey Airport is ‘going under the radar’ and needs a rethink now that Covid-19 vaccines are on the horizon, Unite said today (December 4)….Read more…
‘Tremendous victory’ in Doncaster bins dispute
Planned strikes by refuse workers employed by Suez Recycling and Recovery Ltd, on the outsourced Doncaster council contract, have been suspended after the company acted on the concerns of Unite. The…Read more…
Higher education members reject ‘insulting’ pay freeze
UNISON members vote overwhelmingly to reject the 0% pay offer, which amounts to a pay cut, in higher education
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Further education unions ‘outraged’ at pay offer
UNISON says college leaders have broken their pay promises and that pay in the FE sector is ‘simply too low’
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‘One job’ rule without pay pledge could plunge care staff into poverty and put residents at risk
Government must guarantee staff can work additional hours or get compensation for lost wages
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