Unite has appealed to the St Mungo’s board of trustees to ‘help rebuild trust’ by persuading senior management to reconsider its position and join last-ditch talks, ahead of the strike ballot…Read more…
Holocaust Memorial Day: standing together
UNISON event honours the victims of genocides, as speakers stress the need to remember – and to fight to stop future genocides
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Holocaust Memorial Day: UNISON Renfrewshire remembers Jane Haining
Jane Haining was a Scottish woman from Paisley, who dedicated her life to helping Jewish orphans in Hungary
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‘If not us, then who?’
“Nothing prepares you for visiting Auschwitz,” Unite young member Aiden Papworth told UniteLive. Part of a Unite delegation which travelled to see the largest Nazi concentration camp in…Read more…
‘Never again!’
The scale of devastation unleashed by the Holocaust can be difficult for many of us to imagine. The sheer numbers of people murdered both before and during the Second World War boggle the mind….Read more…
UNISON marks Holocaust Memorial Day
Victims of the Nazi regime and modern genocides remembered
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On the knocker (again) for Labour in West Ham
Yesterday, with Councillor colleagues and local party members, we were back canvassing for Labour in West Ham ward. In May, Sadiq Khan is re-standing for London Mayor and we have to re-elect the London Assembly. Unmesh Desai is also re-standing f…Read more…
Assessing UK Trade Policy Readiness
The UK government continues to paint a ‘rosy and optimistic’ picture for future trade deals with EU, USA, TPP, and countries like New Zealand, Australia and Japan and relying on media…Read more…
Review: The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land, by Patrick Bishop
This is the story of the killing of Avraham “Yair” Stern, the leader of the Jewish underground group in Palestine that bore his name, by a British police officer in Tel Aviv in 1942….Read more…
Keir Starmer Labour leadership launch video
As a trade unionist, watching this video was one of the reasons why I decided to support Keir to be the leader of our Party. I also think he can unite the Party so that we can win a future general election.
On Monday Keir is due to speak at a meeting …Read more…
Greener NHS Campaign to Tackle Climate ‘Health Emergency’
Staff to lead climate change response
The article Greener NHS Campaign to Tackle Climate ‘Health Emergency’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Newham Councillors on Tour
This morning I went on a visit to a regeneration site in Norwich with the Deputy Lead for Housing Services, Cllr Shaban Mohammed and the Chair of Regeneration and Housing Scrutiny, Cllr John Whitworth.
It was a really fascinating (and potentially impo…Read more…
British Steel rescue deal
The beleaguered British Steel firm, which employs 4,000 people in the UK, is now on the brink of securing a rescue deal with Chinese firm Jingye. The takeover, however, will likely entail job…Read more…
Free parking for Hackney residents?
Hackney residents could have free parking in the borough when 40 parking wardens go on a week-long strike next month in a dispute over pay and their personal safety. Unite said today (January…Read more…
Newham council strike
Newham council faces ‘significant disruption’ to council tax collection and rebates when staff stage a week-long strike in a job evaluation row which has cost them thousands of pounds in lost pay….Read more…
‘Clear conflict of interest’
Unite, which is supporting 65 core participants at the Grenfell Inquiry has written to Benita Mehra, who was appointed as an expert adviser to the inquiry by the prime minister shortly before…Read more…
‘Perfect storm’
In an update on Wednesday’s (January 22) story, politicians and industry experts have weighed in on the latest news that JLR is to axe 500 jobs at its Halewood plant in Merseyside. Labour MP…Read more…
Police branches welcome new maternity support
Chief constables in Norfolk and Suffolk agree to increase maternity support leave by a third
The article Police branches welcome new maternity support first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Library workers: have you experienced abuse at work?
“I’ve also had customers hurl racist abuse at me and others have refused to be served by me.”
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‘We keep fighting’
On Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) this year, we also mark the 25th anniversary of the Bosnian genocide which is the largest incidence of mass murder in Europe since the Second World War. …Read more…