For the TUC’s I Heart Unions week (February 11-15), we’re highlighting the wonderful work trade unions do to empower workers — in this instance through peaceful protest. On Monday…Read more…
‘Find their voice’
This week is the TUC’s I Heart Unions Week (February 11-15). Each day on UniteLive, we will bring you an inspiring story. Today (February 11) we meet the Unite members from TGI Fridays who are…Read more…
Major strides forward
Last week (February 11), thanks to Unite campaigning, Rolls-Royce took the unprecedented step of adopting the union’s period dignity charter – now, toilets at Rolls-Royce facilities in 50 countries…Read more…
College workers to vote on industrial action
Members at ‘around 20’ FE colleges in England will take part in nationally co-ordinated ballot
The article College workers to vote on industrial action first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
As GDP evaporates, the need is for a pre-emptive boost to demand
Today official figures confirmed that growth in the UK is at risk of grinding to a halt.Read more…
Zero-Hours Contracts and Health and Safety
Health and safety law is very clear. Those on zero-hours contracts are entitled to exactly the same legal protection as those on fixed hour contracts. So why is the reality so different?Read more…
Zero-hours contracts: time to stamp them out
Those on zero-hour contracts aren’t guaranteed any hours each week. Despite this, they actually work plenty, often at anti-social times.Read more…
HeartUnions Week: celebrating what unions have achieved for workers and why we need them now more than ever
Today marks the beginning of HeartUnions week, our celebration of trade unions and the work they do to make our workplaces and communities fairer.Read more…
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Civil Liability Bill: An attack on workers’ rights
08 February 2019
By RMT
On November 20, the government passed the Civil Liability Bill through its final stages, the effect of which strips workers of their rights. The fight to stop this goes on…Read more…
Civil Liability Bill: An attack on workers’ rights
08 February 2019
By RMT
On November 20, the government passed the Civil Liability Bill through its final stages, the effect of which strips workers of their rights. The fight to stop this goes on…Read more…
Austerity is killing us
Two reports published today show that the increase in life expectancy in Scotland has now stalled and that health inequalities have worsened.
One report compares life expectancy trends in Scotland to…Read more…
‘Look to the future’
Trade union leaders and Tudor manor houses may have little in common but Sutton House in Hackney, London is not your usual period building, nor was Clive Jenkins your usual general secretary. …Read more…
Pantomime drama to pay victory
Unite has negotiated an inflation beating pay increase for hundreds of workers at Bristol Waste, following a sustained organising campaign to overturn the company’s original pay offer which fell well…Read more…
Come clean call
Unite has called on the NHS Trust responsible for building the new Midland Metropolitan hospital, to come clean with patients and staff over further delays to the vitally needed hospital. …Read more…
Learning to lead as LGBT
February is LGBT History Month. Here, UNISON member Nick O’Reilly talks about the challenge of being out and a manager
The article Learning to lead as LGBT first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
♡ UNISON: because of the support they give me as a nurse
“Men’s mental health at work: how unions can help men to open up”
Great post on TUC website. I did not realise that today was “time to talk day”.
“It’s a bit of a cliché – the strong and silent man, the stiff upper lip. But sometimes clichés are clichés because they contain a truth. The truth here is that men o…Read more…
Inequality, depression, unions
Today someone mentioned Angus Deaton and it reminded me of this interview with him in the FT which I always meant to blog about. It’s two years old now, and took place just after Trump’s victory, but there are several bits that really resonate with me….Read more…
‘Toxic’ work culture
Unite has called for a radical change in the existing senior leadership at Amnesty International following a new report into the health and wellbeing of the workforce. The report by the…Read more…