Get set to join UNISON’s virtual Pride is a protest event this weekend
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Get set to join UNISON’s virtual Pride is a protest event this weekend
The article Pride is a protest – get ready for our virtual event first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz, me and Newham Council trade union reps reflect on Covid with TUC regional secretary, Sam Gurney.Read more…
With the timetable for the UNISON General Secretary election set to be released to activists on Monday and several candidates already having declared their actual or potential candidacy, I have already been told online who I support (even before having…Read more…
NHS staff and the wider public are still shocked that the majority of health workers – despite risking their lives working through the pandemic – have not received a pay rise, with no increase even…Read more…
Unite has today (July 24) given a cautious welcome to the Talent Retention Scheme (TRS) designed to be a ‘one stop portal’ where the industry’s workforce and employers can be matched together….Read more…
The threat to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, has been branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by Unite today (July 24). Harrogate and District…Read more…
Today, the Jimmy Reid Foundation has published the second in their series of papers on ‘Reconstructing Scotland after COVID-19’. As with the first paper, they seek to put forward policies that…Read more…
I recently broke my own rule, by being drawn into an argument with someone I barely know on social media (which is invariably a waste of time). This was an individual who took issue with my critical comments on correspondence published online by some L…Read more…
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you a new list of heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. HEROES Unite hospitality members People working in the…Read more…
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery
Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 1985) and woven into them the fictional…Read more…
There is a sub-genre of crime fiction that is set in war-time. And most often the war is the Second World War. Len Deighton’s SS-GB, Robert Harris’ Fatherland and Philip Kerr’s…Read more…
Today I went on my first post lock down “walkabout” around Chad Green in Plaistow North Ward with local ward Councillor Daniel Lee-Phakoe, Council officers, local Police and Deputy Housing Cabinet member, Cllr Shaban Mohammed.
There has been a number …Read more…
General secretary says UNISON members won’t ‘carry the can’ for another economic crisis
The article ‘We need our union to be stronger than ever’ Dave Prentis tells NEC first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has been urged by Unite to get out his cheque book to plug the hole in Nottingham city council’s finances due to coronavirus and avoid more than 150 posts being…Read more…
Rosie MacGregor, the chair of UNISON’s national retired members’ committee, warns that older people may face further challenges to their well-being post-COVID-19
The article Blog: Will the elderly…Read more…
Unite has warned Unilever that plans to sell off its £2.75 billion a year tea business, reiterated today (July 23) during the company’s announcement of its half-yearly financial performance, are a…Read more…
With the majority of office workers working from home since lockdown came into force in March, you’d think that the office-based sexism prevalent in far too many workplaces may have subsided in the…Read more…
Jon Richards calls on government to provide schools with funds to increase cleaning services
The article More cleaners needed to make English schools safe for return of pupils and staff, says…Read more…
Migrant workers are essential to the UK economy but many are vulnerable to exploitation.Read more…