Angela Rayner MP champions education at UNISON national women’s conference
The article Education for all must be protected first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Angela Rayner MP champions education at UNISON national women’s conference
The article Education for all must be protected first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Ministers need to step in and tighten up the laws over how much passengers can drink at UK airports and on aircraft, Unite said today (13 February).
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Birmingham engineering firm Darcast Crankshafts Ltd has agreed to enter Acas talks after the vast majority of its shop floor workforce voted to strike over low pay.
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There’s no evidence that free ports create jobs or stimulate growth – and they could be a Trojan Horse for watering down employment protections after Brexit.Read more…
I asked a friend recently what he knew about the Stern Gang, and he replied that they were “very small … and vicious”. That pretty much sums up the group known as the…Read more…
A new report on the automation of work in the public sector overlooks the threat to jobs, the Unite union warned yesterday. Unite said that Artificial Intelligence & Public Standards, a…Read more…
04/02/2020. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has published a guide for journalists on the transposition of the new EU whistleblower directive. Launched on 04 February 2020 in the European…Read more…
Hat tip Labour Outlook
“As Labour members continue to take stock, in the wake of the General Election result, it is important to remember that in our Labour local authorities the party is still in power, and that Labour Councils now have an even great…Read more…
Union NEC hears round-up of action in court and workplaces to defend workers
The article UNISON leading the way first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
In partnership with Steve Nash, a campaigner whose six-year-old daughter Joanna died of E Coli, UNISON handed in a petition of 216,938 signatures to the Food Standards Agency
The article Protect our…Read more…
Windrush deportations must stop now, says UNISON Commenting on the departure of the government’s deportation flight to Jamaica UNISON assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie today…Read more…
Strike action is set to commence at Allied Bakeries in Northern Ireland on Sunday (February 16th) from 6am after workers rejected an insulting management pay offer. The pay gap remaining is…Read more…
Thousands of members of Unite employed by DHL on the JLR logistics contract, will begin being balloted for strike action today (February 12) in a dispute over pay. The workers are based at…Read more…
President Trump’s so-called ‘Vision for Peace’ for Israel and Palestine would violate international law and Palestinian human rights. That’s no starting point for any genuine peace plan.Read more…
The UK’s biggest women’s conference convenes in Bournemouth with a packed agenda
The article Women members set to sort it out first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Headline cost is halved by economic benefits
The article Fair pay rise for council staff would be affordable, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This article appears in this week’s issue of Solidarity. In early June, voters in the U.S. territory of the Virgin Islands will go to the polls to choose their delegates for the Democratic…Read more…
I have just voted online for Murad Qureshi “1” to be one of our future London Labour Assembly members after the elections in May.
Murad is being supported by Greater London UNISON Labour Link (and he is a former member of my UNISON branch) and a wide …Read more…
Unite has welcomed the government’s announcement today (February 11) that HS2 will be given the green light to proceed. However, Unite is concerned that the review into the cost of HS2 does…Read more…
Unite has criticised a new report on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in public services for failing to discuss the real threat to public sector jobs. A Unite analysis of the threat…Read more…