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Every day this week on UniteLive, we’re featuring one of our many inspiring women members in the lead up to International Women’s Day on Friday (March 8). Today, we hear from Unite rep Stéf Kasprowski who’s helping her members fight for a better deal at work. — Stéf Kasprowski is a Unite rep who managers […]
The post Helping members find their place appeared first on Unite Live.
Back from a great meal in Evin, Kingsland High Street, E8 and political discussion (aka mostly gossip) with my Hackney Comrades, Yvonne Maxwell and Dave Osler. Yvonne and I, are your no nonsense, Labour “sell out” reformists, while Dave is m…Read more…
Responding to today’s (March 6) budget, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Once again the budget offers nothing but the same old failed choices and phony fiscal rules. The real issue is the crisis of under-investment in our industries and public services. We have a multi-billion investment gap, leaving the UK lagging far behind comparable […]
The post Unite blasts budget appeared first on Unite Live.
By embracing flexible working in the NHS, we are setting ourselves on the path to a happier, healthier workforce and a better service for patients
The article UNISON opinion: Let’s talk about flex first appeared on the UNISON National site.
By embracing flexible working in the NHS, we are setting ourselves on the path to a happier, healthier workforce and a better service for patients
The article UNISON opinion: Let’s talk about flex first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The Socialist Revolutionary Party, like other groups working in opposition to the autocratic regime that ruled Russia until 1917, was rife with secret police agents. The most famous of these, Ievno Azef, rose to become…Read more…
The NHS, councils, care and other public services need help and tax cuts won’t deliver it
The article Chancellor is living in a fantasy world first appeared on the UNISON National site.
The NHS, councils, care and other public services need help and tax cuts won’t deliver it
The article Chancellor is living in a fantasy world first appeared on the UNISON National site.
For sixty years, the Anti-Defamation League has been profiling Americans to try to monitor antisemitic beliefs. For the first half century of doing that, they found a fairly steady and ongoing decline in anti-Jewish sentiment….Read more…
Every day this week on UniteLive, we’re featuring one of our many inspiring women members in the lead up to International Women’s Day on Friday (March 8). Today, we hear from Unite rep and food manufacturing worker Monique Mosley, who’s made huge strides in organising her workplace, where the majority of workers are migrant women. […]
The post ‘We’re still not equals’ appeared first on Unite Live.
I have just enjoyed reading the online version of our community newspaper “Newham Voices”. A eclectic mix of local news, politics, arts, sports, notices, history and even fashion hints. I enjoyed this calculation of the worth of the lovely W…Read more…
Further cuts will damage services
The article Energy firm OVO must halt job cut plans and find another solution first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Further cuts will damage services
The article Energy firm OVO release must halt job cut plans and find another solution first appeared on the UNISON National site.
‘After fourteen years of economic mismanagement, I know what to expect from tomorrow’s budget’
The article UNISON opinion: The budget will deliver more cuts and more pain first appeared on the UNISON National site.
‘After fourteen years of economic mismanagement, I know what to expect from tomorrow’s budget’
The article UNISON opinion: The budget will deliver more cuts and more pain first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Every day this week on UniteLive, we’re featuring one of our many inspiring women members in the lead up to International Women’s Day on Friday (March 8). Today, we hear from Unite health and safety rep Maria Boyle and her fight for better PPE for women in her workplace. — A Unite health and safety […]
The post These boots ain’t made for working! appeared first on Unite Live.
Government plans to reintroduce fees for taking tribunal cases will price workers out of accessing justice.
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After work this evening together with activists across London, we leafleted local railway stations with these flyers pointing out that Sadaq had frozen fares for the 5th time! While the Tories have allowed fares to rise by 4.9% elsewhere. To…Read more…
Every day this week on UniteLive, we’re featuring one of our many inspiring women members in the lead up to International Women’s Day on Friday (March 8). Today, we hear from Unite rep and forestry worker Lorna Bailey-Towler, who’s breaking barriers in a male-dominated industry. — Lorna Bailey-Towler works in habitat restoration for Forestry England […]
The post Lorna ‘branches out’ as new forestry rep appeared first on Unite Live.
By Linda Jack, Chair of Unite Health and Local Government Branch Over 200 supporters of the people of Palestine joined a march and rally from Bedford Park to Castle Mound to call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. With International … Continue reading Read more…