At our peril we’d ignored the periphery
Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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At our peril we’d ignored the periphery
Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
The post Contagion appeared first on UNITElive.org.Read more…
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…
Labour market figures show an unemployment crisis is looming. We need decisive government action to avoid it.Read more…
Webinars have become essential tools for union organisers and trainers during lockdown.Read more…
After years of pay cuts, a public sector pay rise was needed. But the government’s announcement still leaves much to be desired.Read more…
This is a wonderful book. People will read it because J. Posadas and the Trotskyist sect he led for decades were, for want of a better phrase, completely bonkers. A proponent of UFOlogy,…Read more…
Immingham ferry operator DFDS Seaways is using the coronavirus pandemic as an ‘excuse’ to drive through redundancies and ‘brutal’ attacks on its workers’ terms and conditions, Unite said today…Read more…
As the government announced on Tuesday (July 21) that less than 20 per cent of public sector workers would receive a pay rise, Unite has highlighted the millions of essential workers who have risked…Read more…
This week’s public sector pay announcement – where less than a fifth of public sector workers were granted a pay rise – was followed almost immediately by the government warning of continued…Read more…
Repeat a lie often enough, and people will think it’s true – this is the mantra successive Tory governments have adopted, after pledging countless times for more than four years now to introduce…Read more…
Man drives past cyclist who is wearing a mask & shouts abuse at him.Cyclist shouts abuse back.Man gets out of his car.Watch what happens next….(watch until end)Read more…