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Tell us about your experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic – and join the prize draw for shopping vouchers
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Sara Gorton says funding for early NHS staff pay rise needed as well as cash to prepare for Covid-19 resurgence
The article The government must invest in NHS staff too, says UNISON first appeared…Read more…
The prospect of London’s Southbank Centre – the UK’s largest arts complex – not receiving a generous slice of the government’s £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts would be ‘a national…Read more…
Unite is urging the government and industry’s major employers to step up to the plate and act responsibly to save jobs, invest in skills and employee development programmes through the creation of…Read more…
Unite believes that while the 747 jet is held in high regard, it is now time for the ‘queen of the skies’ to relinquish her throne. The entire aviation industry’s stock of older, more polluting…Read more…
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE we bring you the latest heroes – those who are keeping the country going through a devastating time – and the zeroes, those who are failing the just when we…Read more…
Ahead of this year’s online Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival event this weekend (July 17-19), UniteLIVE earlier this week explored the issue of rural poverty – and what we can do to fight it. Investment…Read more…
Very sad to hear tonight at the first Newham Full Council meeting since the start of Covid19 that our fabulous Cabinet Colleague for Education, Cllr Julianne Marriott, is stepping down from her post.
However, every cloud in life has a silver lining – …Read more…
Unite has welcomed the revelation that there are now three consortiums actively seeking to purchase the mothballed Appledore shipyard in North Devon. Unite understands that a final announcement on…Read more…
Pressure is growing on chancellor Rishi Sunak to take further action to avert a growing jobs crisis after new figures published today (July 16) show the number of people on UK payrolls plummeted by…Read more…
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their workforces or those of their supply…Read more…
Staff will feel ‘betrayed’ by the move and UNISON will fight for a better deal
The article British Gas behaviour ‘disgraceful’ over new staff contracts, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
I have never posted about a Vogue magazine cover before but, British photographer, David Bailey (born nearby in Leytonstone) took this photo taken in Wanstead park published on its front cover. It is apparently a Egyptian Goose according to a local wil…Read more…
The latest round of job losses announced today (July 15) by the BBC in response to the coronavirus pandemic has been deplored by Unite. The BBC said that increased financial pressure, as a result of…Read more…
Every year we celebrate our union’s history at rural trade union festivals all around the country – the women Chainmakers, Tolpuddle, Burston and others. We come together in lanes, fields and tents…Read more…
Unite , which represents thousands of workers at easyJet, has begun a ballot of no confidence in the company’s Chief Operating Officer Peter Bellew. The ballot of Unite’s membership at easyJet is in…Read more…
British Airways workers and their supporters were delighted to see prime minister Boris Johnson today (July 15) grilled by Labour leader Kier Starmer over the airline’s appalling fire and rehire…Read more…
UNISON also calls on the Scottish government to ensure its fair work standards are applied at the Edinburgh university
The article Napier staff to be balloted over planned redundancies first…Read more…
Executive members ‘angered, dismayed and disappointed’
The article HE executive rejects employers’ proposed pay freeze first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This year’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival 2020 starts Friday, July 17 and runs through till Sunday July 19. The festival is for many the highlight of the trade union year, and has special resonance for…Read more…