Goverment must act immediately for primary schools
The article Ministers must delay school reopening by a fortnight, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Goverment must act immediately for primary schools
The article Ministers must delay school reopening by a fortnight, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This morning my Councillor colleague, John Whitworth and I, went to West Ham Cemetery to lay some flowers at the memorial to 26 boys who died in a fire exactly 131 years ago. The boys lived in a massive workhouse for children nearby in Forest …Read more…
On New Year’s Day today (January 1), UniteLive highlights our most read articles of 2020 — and what a year it’s been. From holding bad employers to account, to likewise calling out…Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from May, when Unite first began its campaign to ensure a decent pay rise for…Read more…
Sometimes it take a full-blown crisis to reveal just how badly our institutions are failing those who need them most. First introduced in 2013, Universal Credit, the Tory government’s flagship…Read more…
This could have been the worst year just gone. It wasn’t just the global pandemic which took my father’s life. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and nearly dying of sepsis in 2019 I was told in 2020 that my cancer was now advanced and th…Read more…
Photo from the Fyfield village bridge across the River Roding overlooking the 13th Century Mill pond.
It being New Year’s Eve I am intending to attend the Labour Grassroots online party in order to look back at one very minor aspect of the awful year now passing, associated with one rather minor petty bureaucrat who brought a little tedium and, in some…Read more…
Staff must not be left to burn out
The article NHS employers must “dig deep” to avoid spiral of exhaustion for health workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, when we heard from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey about the Durham…Read more…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, UniteLIVE has regularly highlighted the ‘heroes and zeroes’ of this crisis. Today we present you the top heroes of the year, alongside the worst zeroes, in no…Read more…
It has been a year like no other. From the moment the coronavirus hit our shores, this union was on the front foot. Unite was always going to have to go into hand-to-hand battle against this…Read more…
My branch UNISON member, Lola Oyewusi, is standing for election as the Labour & Co-operative candidate to be the next Kent Police Crime Commissioner. Her campaign launch is on Sunday 10 January 2020.
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Primary opening should also be held back
The article Reopening delay is sensible to make school mass testing work, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
PRIVATE EDGAR JOHN MARKILLIE
Service Number 944 Australian Infantry A.I.F 13th Battalion Killed in Action9 August 1915
Age 24 years Son of John Adam & Frances Julia Markillie 110 Dalmeny Avenue, Norbury
Buried 7th FIELD AMBULANCE C…Read more…
Approval will allow priority for NHS and care staff
The article Oxford vaccine approval is welcome news, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…
It’s an ill wind which blows nobody good, as they say. But when the government is happy to reward their ‘mates’ with lucrative contracts, while at the same time refusing to give our public sector…Read more…
Off message. I decided to try and ditch my “fair weather only” cycling reputation by biking in the winter gloom and cold to the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. My favourite route to the south of the borough is via West Ham Park and the Greenway. Across …Read more…
Your humble blogger has added my name – for what it’s worth – to the campaign for Zero covid. Labour movement activists cannot remain simple spectators as we head towards the second year of a global pandemic which has cost tens of thousands of lives an…Read more…