“UNISON will carry on campaigning with, and on behalf, of our European members and their families to retain their existing rights post Brexit.”
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“UNISON will carry on campaigning with, and on behalf, of our European members and their families to retain their existing rights post Brexit.”
The article Settled status: UNISON can help first…Read more…
Commenting on the launch of the Labour Party manifesto today (Thursday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “This is a powerful package to rebuild the country and help millions whose lives…Read more…
Pauline Symington is a neonatal ward assistant at Ulster Hospital and won the popular vote after being nominated by her colleagues
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Under the Tories, NHS staff work one million hours of unpaid overtime every week.
The Tories can’t be trusted with the NHS.
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UNISON has today (Wednesday) announced the dates for strikes and industrial action by health and social services staff in Northern Ireland. Workers represented by the union voted overwhelmingly…Read more…
Delegates at Unite’s sector conferences in Brighton have been meeting this week to discuss the formation of industry-wide responsesto issues like insecure work, outsourcing and automation.
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It’s a travesty that such an economically ruinous policy as austerity was ever allowed to see the light of day. The politicians responsible owe working people an apology.Read more…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. American politics has made a sharp turn to the left in recent years – a turn that few anticipated, but that underpins much of what is…Read more…
Today we celebrate Local Government in Newham and elsewhere. The collage above recognises what Newham Council workers deliver for our residents. day in and day out. The list is pretty endless. Newham Council provides lollipop crossing attendants, build…Read more…
Leaders’ debate shows Boris Johnson is out of touch
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“The history of communism in America is bitterly contested terrain,” writes Maurice Isserman on the first page of his 1982 book. Nearly four decades later, it remains bitterly contested….Read more…
RSPCA staff to hold consultative ballot on industrial action in pay and contracts’ row.
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There’s no doubt that manufacturing in the UK has taken an extra pounding amid Brexit uncertainty. The latest October figures paint a bleak picture – Britain’s manufacturing plants have been…Read more…
Research by Unite has found that workers in the transport sector are being routinely denied access to toilets, which is creating health issues and in some cases forcing workers to leave their jobs….Read more…
TWENTY FIVE years after the Loughinisland massacre of six men as they watched a World Cup match on TV in a Northern Ireland bar, the man named as their killer continues to go about his life running a…Read more…
In the UK the poorer you are, the sooner you die. We need the next government to commit to put that right with quality public services, fairer working practices and a society that puts people first.Read more…
Hat tip Andy Diagram for a great map of London marginals. In West Ham we have a Labour majority of 36,754 votes. In 2017 our fantastic Labour candidate, Lyn Brown, got 76.7% of the vote.
While we have and will be campaigning in West Ham, we need to wi…Read more…
Lincolnshire health visitors started a month-long strike today (18 November) as cracks appeared in the county council’s hardline ‘divide and rule’ policy over future job roles.
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Speaking at the opening of Unite’s national industrial sector conference today (Monday November 18) in Brighton, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey in his keynote speech, delivered an impassioned…Read more…
Child poverty among working families has skyrocketed according to the latest figures, in a damning testament to the damage Tory-led governments have wrought during their last near-decade in power….Read more…