Teaching assistants are dipping into their own pockets to help cash-strapped families buy school uniforms, fund trips and provide lunch money, according to a survey by UNISON published today…Read more…
Green UNISON Week
UNISON is going green 16-20 September and supporting the school climate strike on 20 September
https://www.unison.org.uk/events/gree…Read more…
‘The final straw’
Pathologists working for King George Hospital Ilford and Queens Hospital Romford have ramped up their campaign against management bullying and the imposition of a new shift pattern after a two…Read more…
Are you election ready on Facebook?
As we enter a likely general election, many unions will be thinking how they can get their issues across more clearly online during such a high profile campaign moment. Social advertising has become…Read more…
Higher education strike ballot
It’s time to stand up for decent pay and decent jobs in HE
The article Higher education strike ballot first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Newham Council Cabinet gets welcome gift from PEACH of Peaches
Yesterday’s cabinet meeting at East Ham Town started off with a lively and good natured “action” by residents, children and activists from PEACH (The People’s Empowerment Alliance for Custom House) with lots of singing, dancing and laughter.
A lo…Read more…
‘We have to keep fighting’
One of the UK’s top anti-racist charities launched its annual Wear Red Day fundraising campaign at Unite’s central office on Tuesday (September 3), with sporting stars among football and cricket’s…Read more…
‘Shoddy move’
A plan by the bosses at Princess Yachts in Plymouth to get rid of more than 100 probationers and those with less than two years’ service will be strongly resisted, Unite said today (September 4)….Read more…
‘Sour taste’
Kitchen staff at Colfe’s School, one of London’s oldest schools, will strike for seven days this autumn after they had been underpaid by an estimated £5,000 each over the last decade. Unite…Read more…
‘Historic moment’
Unite has signed a landmark agreement to represent 1,700 Rolls-Royce managers at the firm’s Derby and Hucknall sites after record numbers of managerial staff joined the union. Managers at the…Read more…
‘Patients deserve better’
Six hundred days after the collapse of Carillion members of Unite and local health campaigners will stage a protest this Friday (September 6), as a result of the government’s failure to provide the…Read more…
Government has at last acknowledged public services are at breaking point
But voters should be wary of cynical pledges and gimmicks.
The article Government has at last acknowledged public services are at breaking point first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
13 ways to go green at work
The UK’s biggest union launches its first Green UNISON Week – and here’s how you can help green your office
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Fragmented and fragile: it’s time to fix social care
New report argues that care workers are overlooked, undervalued and in desperate need of investment
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Organ donation week: what we all need to know
Organ donation week is now on and runs until Sunday 8 September and a change in the law will affect us all
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Housing Crisis Canvass in Royal Docks 31.8.19
After a lazy summer I was back on the campaign trail on Saturday in Royal Docks ward in East Ham. We met after the “Socialist Sisters” picnic in Thames Barrier Park (a truly lovely park, well worth a visit) . Local MP Stephen Timms had joined the siste…Read more…
The financial class is rattled at the prospect of a Corbyn-led government
By David Whyte, Professor of socio-legal studies at Liverpool University
There is an alternative to allowing a tiny unaccountable elite to run the economy and the planet into the ground – and those…Read more…
‘We want our future back’
The return of striking children, the environment and Brexit’s impact on rural economies emerged as central themes at the annual Burston School Strike rally in Norfolk on Sunday (September 1). …Read more…
Working people will pay price for the economic disaster of a no deal Brexit
A no deal Brexit would be a disaster for jobs, rights and public servicesRead more…
Government U-turn could cut pensions for hundreds of thousands living abroad
Wherever UK workers spend their retirement, they should be able to expect a pension that won’t decrease year after year.Read more…