Survey reveals that branches particularly need more time and more reps to help and share the load
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Survey reveals that branches particularly need more time and more reps to help and share the load
The article Branch resources review releases survey results first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Like many freelancer workers during the first national lockdown in March, professional photographer Slater King’s work suddenly dried up. No phone calls, no shoots, just an unending expanse of time…Read more…
The spending review is a big chance for the Chancellor to think about how we get our economy back on track. With redundancies in the latest quarter at the highest on record, attention must be shifted…Read more…
Young workers suffer most in recessions – youth unemployment has long-term ‘scarring’ impacts and spells of unemployment as a young worker can lead to lower pay and more unemployment decades later….Read more…
The Chancellor has threatened a freeze of public sector wages in Wednesday’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).Read more…
For all ministers’ talk of levelling up, this spending review will level down Britain, hit key workers’ pay and break the government’s promises to the lowest paid.Read more…
Today, the Chancellor is expected to announce plans to cut a scheduled raise in the minimum wage. This decision could cost low paid workers more than £640 a year and will disproportionately hurt…Read more…
Multinational business is lobbying for trade deals which will increase their profits at the expense of workers’ rights. But trade unions across the world are fighting back.Read more…
This has been the first year that Congress couldn’t take place in its usual physical format. We have learned a lot as part of taking as much as we could of our flagship event into a new online…Read more…
I have refrained from blogging much recently about goings on in the Labour Party, of which I have been a member for forty years (and which I shall leave only by reason of my death – hopefully still some time away – or my unjustified expulsion).I was a …Read more…
On Saturday morning there was a virtual debate organised by Newham Fabians on “Participatory democracy”.
Local blogger Martin Warne spoke in favour of changing Newham’s governance from an Executive Mayor model to a “Committee model”. Next May th…Read more…
Responding to the latest Covid-19 tier restrictions, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, “There’s not just a health and economic crisis engulfing this country. Job insecurity and low…Read more…
Workers at Heineken’s cider brewery in Hereford, Herefordshire, are ‘preparing to battle’ a ‘sack and sign’ (SAS) ultimatum by the company that will see staff lose thousands of pounds in pay and…Read more…
Residents of Doncaster are set to be severely affected by a series of bin strikes over Christmas and New Year, as a result of the constant bullying and harassment of the workforce by outsourcers Suez…Read more…
Government money not enough to fix broken care system
The article Care workers left high and dry by chancellor first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak yet again failed to offer the level of ambition necessary to rebuild a shattered economy, while also targeting the lowest paid to bear the brunt of the crisis despite their…Read more…
Chancellor’s pay freeze for most public service workers mocks the government’s commitment to ‘levelling up’ with old-style Thatcherism
The article Blog: This cynical, divisive kick in the teeth…Read more…
Chancellor’s plan is austerity plain and simple
The article Divide and rule won’t help the economic recovery first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Rolls Royce’s announcement that it will close its factory in Barnoldswick from this Friday (November 25) until after Christmas, while offshoring work around the globe, has been described as an act of…Read more…
Ministers reacted too slowly when buying protective kit
The article Shockingly poor government planning left health and care staff vulnerable to the virus first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…