In-sourcing, strike suspensions, maternity policy improvements and backing Keir Starmer for Labour leader – it’s been a busy month
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In-sourcing, strike suspensions, maternity policy improvements and backing Keir Starmer for Labour leader – it’s been a busy month
The article What a start to the new decade! first appeared on the…Read more…
Members of Unite, employed as security guards and CCTV operators at the Harrods store in Knightsbridge have voted for strike action in a dispute over pay and unpaid work. The workers returned…Read more…
The welfare of health staff at Arrowe Park hospital, where those travelling from China are being quarantined because the coronavirus, needs to be a top priority, Unite said today (January 31). …Read more…
Serious questions need to be asked about Unilever’s future business strategy and its implications for jobs, following recent announcements by the consumer goods giant that it is considering dumping…Read more…
Unite executive officer Sharon Graham believes Unite’s strategy could be the starting point to develop stronger unions at work and safeguard jobs. She writes: The ‘cost of living…Read more…
This morning I received notification that I had been re-elected unopposed as the UNISON Regional Finance Conveyor for Greater London Region.
UNISON is the biggest trade union in London (and the country) with some 130,000 members.
Also re-elected exis…Read more…
Staff to benefit from improved, pay, pension and sickness allowances
The article UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Dear West Ham CLP member
You may be aware we will be undergoing the leadership and deputy leadership election alongside there 3 other NEC Positions.
As per the party rules, candidates will need either 33 CLPs or 3 affiliated organisations to be on t…Read more…
“If you break it, you own it.” So says the sign in every Pottery Barn store in the USA. It is a penalty Labour’s second-referendum lobby would do well to recall. As a number of party members from…Read more…
A series of freedom of information (FOI) requests made by Unite has exposed the disarray and the failure of two government departments to even examine alternative solutions prior to the collapse of…Read more…
Unite which is supporting 65 core participants at the inquiry into the Grenfell fire has described as ‘absolutely outrageous’, the revelation that companies involved in supplying and installing the…Read more…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. In the hunt for dirt on Bernie Sanders, hostile journalists have come up with very little. He had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. He…Read more…
Yesterday I helped organise a meeting for Labour Party members and affiliates to meet Keir Starmer, at the Old Town Hall in Stratford.
In a packed meeting he was introduced by Newham Councillor, Susan Masters, who explained that she was proud to have …Read more…
Staff at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) are to be balloted for strike action, Unite said today (January 28). Unite said the ballot for strike action will…Read more…
Working group to look into best way for members to protest at another low pay offer
The article FE workers in England reject pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Nearly thirty years after John Major’s government introduced the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), it is astonishing that we are still writing about and using this failed model of delivering public…Read more…
Christina McAnea warns proposals will cause uncertainty and instability
The article Barriers to overseas recruitment will disrupt care, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The Welsh Government is legislating to strengthen social partnership and to create a platform to deliver fair work in Wales.Read more…
Tackling the far right is an issue for all of us who care about freedom, equality and community over division. It’s an issue for all us in the trade union movement.Read more…
This morning I attended our annual Council event to honour Holocaust Memorial Day (held on 27 January which is the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and today is the 75th anniversary) in the Old Town Hall in Stratford.
The…Read more…