Two hundred cargo handlers and truckers, who handle freight operations for top international airlines at Heathrow Airport, have voted overwhelmingly to accept a one-year 7.5 per cent pay deal. Unite…Read more…
East Ham NUPE Banner – “United we stand – Divided we fall” (any idea where it is now?)
Labour movement historian @LondonNurse2015 sent me this marvellous picture of a East Ham branch banner for the “National Union of Public Employees” (a predecessor union of UNISON).
I have no idea where this banner is now? Anyone know? …Read more…
UK-US summit in Aberdeen: trade talks must involve workers and support the Good Friday agreement
UK and US unions have jointly urged the International Trade Secretary in Aberdeen to involve unions in trade talksRead more…
Using our collective power to secure good mental health
The relationship between instability and poor mental health are underlined in a landmark research exercise released today by Equity for Mental Health Awareness Week.Read more…
Blog: The UK government must invest properly in our nurses
This International Nurses Day, it’s not enough to celebrate nurses, we need to demand proper investment in the profession
The article Blog: The UK government must invest properly in our nurses first…Read more…
Demand Better – join TUC demo 18 June
18 June 202212:00pm–3:00pm
Parliament Square, Westminster, London SW1 3BDAdd to Calendar Get directionsOn Saturday 18 June, the trade union movement will be taking to the streets to demand action on the cost of living – a new deal for working peop…Read more…
‘Every War is Called Ukraine’
For Unite organiser Davy Kettyles, solidarity does not start — nor does it end — at the factory gates. A lifelong socialist and trade unionist, Belfast-based Davy’s whole raison…Read more…
A New Scotland
In the book, A New Scotland, leading activists and academics lay out the blueprints for radical reform, showing how society can be transformed by embedding values of democracy, social justice and…Read more…
Workers with Long Covid need support
Long Covid is a key issue for working age people and our key workers, but the government and employers are still not taking this issue seriously.Read more…
REGIONAL FINANCE CONVENOR (Auto Elected) GRAY, John (But VOTE YVONNE GREEN as REGIONAL CONVENOR)
I was really pleased to have received notification last week that I had also been elected unopposed as the UNISON Greater London Regional Finance Convenor (and therefore a Regional Council officer).
Our UNISON regional AGM is on 18 May 202…Read more…
Uxbridge & District Welsh Society
Government again fails to address cost of living crisis
Unite has said that the government has once again consigned ordinary families to the scrapheap after today’s (May 10) Queen’s Speech setting out the government’s legislative agenda failed to include…Read more…
Government has run out of ideas to tackle cost of living crisis, says UNISON
Ministers haven’t grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The article Government has run out of ideas to tackle cost of living crisis, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Sandwell leisure workers strike to open new pay battle
Together with the GMB and Unite, the move comes after the council vowed to end the contract with Sandwell Leisure Trust in the wake of its decision to fire and rehire all staff
The article Sandwell…Read more…
TUC demo: Seven bonus reasons to get off the sofa and go
A sideways glance at some of the less obvious reasons why you and your friends should fight for a solution to the cost of living crisis at the big national TUC demos on 18 June
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Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech that delivers nothing
The Tories in Westminster won’t focus on what needs to be done to tackle the cost of living crisis, but on ‘the wrong things and the wrong time’
The article Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech…Read more…
Relaxing Weekend next to Dungeness
After election day (Thursday), the “count” (Friday) and my Councillor surgery (Saturday morning) Gill and I went off for a last minute weekend break. We had not been to this part of the Kent coast before and did not quite realise how close it wa…Read more…
MINI plant warehouse workers to strike
Strikes by warehouse workers based at Oxford’s MINI plant will resume after a pay offer was overwhelmingly rejected by the workforce, Unite, said today. The members voted by 91 per cent to reject the…Read more…
Scottish local authorities warned over strikes
Unite the union has today (May 9) called on all new council leaders at Scottish local authorities to take immediate action to improve pay, or see strikes this summer. The trade union confirmed that…Read more…
‘Working people cannot afford 12 more years of decline’
After Labour’s success at the polls last week, deputy leader Angela Rayner talks exclusively to UNISON about her upbringing and what is really needed to fix the cost of living crisis
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