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One of the biggest councils in the country, Glasgow City Council, has backed Unite the union’s Get Me Home Safely campaign the union announced today (Friday). Glasgow City Council is the eighth and largest local authority so far to call on employers to provide safe and free transport home for all workers past 11 pm. […]
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Earlier this year TUC Cymru launched our ‘Cynnig Cymraeg Welsh Language Offer’ setting out what you can expect to receive in Welsh when communicating with us.
The Welsh Language is an important part of our commitment to equality and diversity. And one …Read more…
Dear Comrades,You will see that there has been a massively long gap between my last post and this. As I have bemoaned extensively over the last couple of years this is because the Blogger platform is periodically blocked by a third party. It is impossi…Read more…
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Around one in seven patients are still waiting over an hour to be handed over to A&E staff at hospitals, the latest figures show. According to NHS England, an additional third of patients waited longer than 30 minutes, with nearly 30,000 patients waiting a half hour or longer across all hospital trusts last week. The […]
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These figures paint a bleak picture of the state of the NHS.
The article Government must resolve NHS pay dispute as waiting lists keep growing, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Affected areas include the NHS, higher education and the Environment Agency
The article NEC hears plans for industrial action, plus new ballots first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Low paid workers employed by Arrow XL will protest tomorrow outside the prestigious Logistics UK Awards, where the company has a significant presence. The protest will take place on Thursday, December 8 from 6pm at Park Plaza Hotel, 200 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7UT The demonstration will feature a banner reading: Arrow XL Time […]
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Industrial action involving over 2,000 Metroline bus drivers in London (working for the subsidiary Metroline Travel Ltd) has been called off after the workers accepted a greatly improved pay offer. The workers have accepted an 11 per cent pay increase with a 10 per cent increase on back pay. As a result of the workers […]
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To celebrate the first UNISON Champions day, the film and TV star interviewed last year’s Local Service Champions winner and rehabilitation worker, Paddy Toner
The article Christopher Eccleston celebrates UNISON’s Champions Day first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Off message but on Sunday Gill and I went for a 5 mile circular walk around Nazeing Common in Essex. Only 30 minutes drive from East London (not great for public transport), we have done several versions of this walk but this one was taken from the Ord…Read more…
This book, shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is very hard to categorise. It begins as a kind of police procedural, though one that is at times laugh-out-loud funny. It has elements of horror. And…Read more…
In what some have called the ‘winter of discontent’, a wave of strike action is engulfing the UK right now amid an unprecedented cost of living crisis. Speaking to Sky News this week, Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab explained explains why tens of thousands of Unite members are taking a stand. Watch in the […]
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More than 1,600 workers at the West Midlands, North West and North East ambulance service trusts will strike on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, their union Unite announced on Tuesday (December 6). Unite says that the action is a `stark warning’ to the government that it must stem the crisis engulfing the NHS following ministers’ deliberate […]
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UNISON members, alongside those from Nipsa, have not received any pay award this year
The article NHS workers in Northern Ireland prepare for strike action first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Over three days and across three cities, seventeen young trade union activists from across the movement came together for the TUC Winter Patrol; engaging young precarious workers in the hospitality industry.
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Reflections on COP 27
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Strike date announced for December 21 – but it’s not too late for ministers to talk
The article Start talking to avert health strikes later this month first appeared on the UNISON National site.
On Saturday after my surgery I joined the new Councillor team at the also new ward of Plaistow West and Canning Town East. We were joined by our Greater London Assembly member, Unmesh Desai. On the whole a fairly positive canvass. Lots …Read more…