The government has been forced to confirm that workers taking lawful industrial action have a right to picket their workplace during the Covid-19 lockdown. In doing so they have vetoed the actions of…Read more…
‘The only way we will get through this is if we help each other’
At a time when hunger and want have soared in the UK and across globe amid the coronavirus pandemic, never has reaching out to our communities been more important. That’s why Unite has set up its…Read more…
Government must end poverty pay for care staff, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says overwhelming public support for wage rise for social care workers
The article Government must end poverty pay for care staff, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Benchmarking our digital organising
How we adapt union organising to fit a digital-first world is a critical question for unions. Even before the pandemic we were seeing increasing organising challenges from fragmented workplaces and…Read more…
“The Fight for Democracy in Sheffield” by Olivia Brake (now Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam)
Hat tip to Newham for Change. There will be a referendum next May 2021 (postponed by Covid) the same time as Newham will also hold one on changing to a committee model.
“In 2017 I was elected Deputy Leader of Sheffield Council on a tic…Read more…
BA cargo workers in fire and rehire dispute
British Airways is facing significant disruption in its cargo handling business in the run up to Christmas as members of Unite prepare to ballot for industrial action. The dispute is a result of…Read more…
Solidarity for Barnoldswick
Rolls-Royce workers in Barnoldswick continue their strike action, fighting for their jobs, communities and the legacy of an historic plant that is the birthplace of the jet engine. Unite assistant…Read more…
Unite statement on Julian Assange
Unite welcomes the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) condemnation of the detention of Julian Assange pending his extradition proceedings. We applaud the NUJ’s campaign to draw to broad…Read more…
Government must urgently tackle funding problems for struggling councils, says UNISON
Council workers should not pay the price for budget problems
The article Government must urgently tackle funding problems for struggling councils, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Crisis of hunger
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a crisis of hunger, as new figures from the Trussell Trust food bank network show a surge in demand for food parcels since the pandemic began. The latest…Read more…
MPs support embattled Barnoldswick workers
The government must put conditions on support for Rolls-Royce or risk jobs, says Grahame Morris MP
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Pay rise and student support are key to increasing nursing numbers
Workforce must be built as registration slows
The article Pay rise and student support are key to increasing nursing numbers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Crockett’s Leathercloth Works War Memorial & my Taid and his brother
This morning my fellow West Ham Ward Councillor, John Whitworth and I, went to the old factory memorial in Abbey Road junction with Mitre Road E15 for 11am in order to show our respect. Our colleague, Cllr Charlene McLean had a clash. There used …Read more…
Hackney parking wardens win
Unite said the decision by Hackney council to bring its more than 130 parking wardens back ‘in-house’ is ‘the way to go’ for those London boroughs still wedded to the outsourced, privatisation model….Read more…
GLL recognition deal ‘huge step forward’
Unite the union and Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) have signed a union recognition agreement. The agreement specifically relates to the leisure contract in the London Borough of Lewisham and follows…Read more…
Review: The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon
The Manchurian Candidate tells a completely implausible story – or does it? Following his capture by Soviet troops during the Korean War, a U.S. soldier named Raymond Shaw is brainwashed and…Read more…
Staff need training and support to deliver mass testing to students, says UNISON
Workers must be protected from risk and funding must be in place
The article Staff need training and support to deliver mass testing to students, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Contrasting approaches to the crisis of care
The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired several new books, which seek to analyse the impact on our healthcare systems and broader society and propose reform. I have read a number of these as background to…Read more…
‘Time to stop government’s economic rollercoaster’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s extension of the furlough scheme has come too late for a massive number of people who are now out of work, as the latest figures show more than 300,000 redundancies were made…Read more…
The five-week wait for first payment of universal credit is unnecessary and unacceptable
As more people are forced onto universal credit in the pandemic, the government must act now to end the wait.Read more…