An estimated 8,000 black cab drivers clogged the streets around Whitehall in London yesterday (February 10) in demonstration against light-touch regulation of private hire apps such as Uber. Unite…Read more…
EU Developments: has social Europe disintegrated?
By Roger Jeary
As we move ever closer to a UK wide referendum on whether to remain in the EU, the Institute brought together an experienced group of speakers to consider how, if at all, the EU…Read more…
Women and trade unions
Women have always been central to trade unions and the fight for a more equal society. To celebrate International Women’s Day we’ve put together a timeline of some of the key dates for women and the trade union movement.
The article Women and trade unions first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unions and productivity
It is heartunions week – and perhaps one of the more surprising reasons to love unions is that they are good for productivity. I have an article on this in an e-pamphlet recently published by the IPA ‘Involvement and Productivity – The missing piece of the puzzle?’ Productivity has risen up the…Read more…
UNISON day of action to defend local government services
UNISON Scotland’s largest trade union has been holding a day of action today to campaign against cuts in local services and jobs. UNISON members are holding demonstrations, campaigns and lobbying to call on the UK government and the Scottish Government to use its powers to end austerity.
Local government has taken the brunt of cuts in Scotland. Of the 50,000 job losses in devolved servicesRead more…
‘The real challenges’ of caring
Women share their experience as carers at Brighton conference
The article ‘The real challenges’ of caring first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
‘The real challenges’ of caring
Women share their experience as carers at Brighton conference
The article ‘The real challenges’ of caring first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Beach barbecues, feminist craft, discussions on prostitution and hula hooping…
Conventional and unconventional approaches to recruitment debated at women’s conference
The article Beach barbecues, feminist craft, discussions on prostitution and hula hooping… first…Read more…
University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
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University workers still not ‘all in it together’
UNISON condemns growing pay gap in higher education as new port shows tht senior managers’ pay grew by 3% last year
The article University workers still not ‘all in it together’ first…Read more…
‘We have always overcome obstacles in our way’
UNISON president Wendy Nichols opens women’s conference in Brighton with call to action
The article ‘We have always overcome obstacles in our way’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
‘We have always overcome obstacles in our way’
UNISON president Wendy Nichols opens women’s conference in Brighton with call to action
The article ‘We have always overcome obstacles in our way’ first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
UNISON Scotland mounts day of action against austerity
Members across the country call on Edinburgh parliament to use its powers to protect and fund local services people rely on
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♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up
Polly Smith is a homecare worker
The article ♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up
Polly Smith is a homecare worker
The article ♡ UNISON: the union has empowered me to speak up first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Blog on workers’ capital
I’ve got a piece up on Left Foot Forward today about workers’ capital as part of #heartunions week. Have a read here.Read more…
203,979 tell David Cameron: Don’t threaten the right to strike
Thanks to everyone who signed our petition to Prime Minister David Cameron, showing our opposition the Trade Union Bill. We teamed up with campaign group SumOfUs.org and together handed in 203,979…Read more…
Life-changing bonds
In Part 4 of our Heart Unions week series, UNITELive speaks to Michelle, a transgender member, who explains how the union gave her the support she needed through her transition — both in and…Read more…
What role for industrial strategy in wealth redistribution?
Yesterday, the ever-thoughtful Policy Network caught my eye with the following tweet: “The left needs to create a new industrial strategy to deliver redistribution without the help of the big state.” This tweet linked to an article, ‘Socialism without the state’, by Claudia Chwalisz and Patrick…Read more…
The state of our unions?
http://wire.novaramedia.com/2016/01/rebuilding-radical-unionism-an-organisers-notes/
This anonymous contribution to the debate that isn’t really happening about the crisis of our trade union movement is well worth a read.
For many at the top of our tra…Read more…