Health visitors and hundreds of their supporters, including Labour’s shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, marched through Lincoln’s cobbled streets on Saturday (August 17) to stand up for the…Read more…
A new reign for Greene King?
Unite is seeking urgent meeting with the new owners of Greene King, the UK’s largest pub and brewery firm, following an announcement that it is to be taken over by a Hong Kong-based multinational….Read more…
‘Discredited austerity regime’
Stoke-on-Trent city council has been accused of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” over plans to axe about 250 jobs so that it can give a financial boost to children’s services. Unite said the…Read more…
Costa Coffee “stealing” money from their staff
Check out this BBC report
Costa Coffee: Employees call £200 deductions for training ‘unfair’
This is outrageous and I hope people boycott this @CostaCoffee in Upminister (& any other employer who steals from its workforce).
This sort of …Read more…
‘Deeply sinister’
Unite has accused Merseyside police of being heavy handed with union activists protesting against working conditions at a construction site near Ellesmere Port.
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H&W workers: ‘We will dictate who buys our company’
In a boost to workers occupying Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff, administrators have said there have been “positive discussions” over the site’s sale and have struck a deal with Unite to keep…Read more…
Review: London Rules, by Mick Herron
OK, I’ve said this before and I have to say it again: plot is not Mick Herron’s greatest strength. In this book, the fifth in the Slough House series, a bunch of terrorists blow up some…Read more…
Financial Advice Sessions 3-4 September 2019 for members considering Voluntary Redundancy
The branch has asked Lighthouse Financial Advice to organise complimentary one-to-one sessions for Unison members employed by Stoke-On-Trent City Council who are considering accepting voluntary redundancy. These will be held at the branch office at 40 …Read more…
How Netanyahu lost
On October 30, 1972 a little-known author named Arthur Tobier published a book entitled How McGovern Won the Presidency and Why the Polls Were Wrong. The New York Times described the book as “perhaps…Read more…
Park Road Crime & ASB re-inspection 12.8.19
Last week I went on a second walkabout in Park Road, E6 with Residents, Council Officers, Police and local ward Councillor, Nilufa Jahan. Cllr Jahan had persuaded the Police to send a “design out crime” specialist to the block, who had produced an exce…Read more…
UNISON equality survey 2019
Win a holiday AND fight for equality by filling out the 2019 equality survey by 26 August. Go to https://unison.org.uk/eqsurvey2019Read more…
Learning to put hope and power into the hands of young workers
Last Saturday, 20 young workers from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region came together in Sheffield for the first time to learn how to organise. Here’s what we learned.Read more…
The Franchise system still isn’t working, regardless of who runs the west coast
Yesterday the government announced that Virgin Trains would not run the West Coast mainline for the first time since 1997. A consortium of FirstGroup and Trenitalia (the Italian state rail operator,…Read more…
The economy of the many is better than the economy of the few
200 years ago today (16 August), a public meeting on St. Peter’s Field in Manchester was savagely broken up by government forces. Shelly’s famous poem ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ commemorated those who…Read more…
Newham Council Under the Stars 2019
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‘Maximum support’
Labour’s shadow health and social care secretary Jon Ashworth will give Lincolnshire’s health visitors ‘maximum support’ when he addresses a well-supported rally in Lincoln tomorrow (August 17)….Read more…
‘Massive leap forward’
Unite has welcomed the news today (August 16) that the Turkish military pension fund Oyak has entered into exclusive talks with the government to buy British Steel. Oyak announced on Friday…Read more…
All-women shortlists must not be ‘meddled with’
UNISON and Labour party have long record of encouraging women MPs
The article All-women shortlists must not be ‘meddled with’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Concerned about someone sleeping rough?
Hat tip Newham Council “If you are concerned about someone who is rough sleeping and medical attention is not immediately required, you can make a referral to StreetLink through their website or call 0300 500 0914 which is charged at nor…Read more…
‘Who wants to eat bleach?’
“Of course we want to make sure the same [American] standards are used,” Zippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau told the BBC this week. Duvall is the latest in a line of American…Read more…