Black members’ conference is united around the need to work together to injustice and bigotry
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Black members’ conference is united around the need to work together to injustice and bigotry
The article UNISON – standing together to fight racism and xenophobia first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The loss of 300 jobs at Cooper Tires at Melksham, Wiltshire has been blamed on ‘cheap Chinese tyre imports’ by Unite today (January 18). “We are blaming the continued dumping of…Read more…
Both NHS staff and patients are being treated with contempt, as the lurch toward privatisation continues unabated, and NHS bosses mismanage what little funding the health service has in the midst of…Read more…
This short book was an early history of Vlasov movement, which during the second world war aimed to create a Russian army of “liberation” that would fight side by side with the Germans…Read more…
Again, huge caveat that the data in these charts is only 0.5%+ short positions, but some interesting stuff I think. At the end of play yesterday the FCA had disclosed 581 current short positions of 0.5% and above in UK shares. So I looked at which firm…Read more…
Mathias Askholm co-leads HK Lab, an ambitious innovation project at Denmark’s HK union that is helping the union and its members adapt to the implications of technological change. He joined us for a…Read more…
Outsourcing giant Carillion’s collapse symbolised the bankruptcy of the privatisation dogma – we need a new Domesday Book to make public service contracts transparentRead more…
Mostly off message but Gill and spent new year in Great Malvern, Worcestershire. We had never been here before but I had seen the historical railway poster (see bottom right) and thought it might be a good place to go walking.
It turned out to be a fa…Read more…
Ministers are ignoring the needs of lorry drivers in their planning for a potential no deal Brexit, Unite said today (January 17).
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Unite has said Hitachi’s announcement today (17 January) that work is being suspended on a £20bn nuclear power station is proof the “lights are going out on a coherent UK energy policy”. …Read more…
Neptune (looks like an old statement, but hey)
We will continue any dialogue with the company over an extended period where deemed necessary. Escalation of our engagement activities, including any engagement with other investors, will depend on the co…Read more…
City council becomes first to make union’s charter a key part of its commissioning process
The article Liverpool signs up to UNISON’s End Violence at Work charter first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
A parliamentary enquiry has agreed with the TUC and unions, and rejected UKSA’s claim that RPI is ‘fundamentally flawed’.Read more…
The UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) is our union parliament which oversees the running of the union in between our annual National Conference, which are held each year in in June. UNISON members vote every 2 years by postal ballot to thei…Read more…
Unite St Mungo’s reps today (January 16) manned a union stall outside the housing charity’s annual staff conference in London in an effort to recruit more members and engage with workers whose terms…Read more…
Bumper bonuses for top bosses at NHS Property Services are ‘a disgrace’, as the health service grapples with a funding crisis and growing waiting lists, Unite has said. Media reports said that…Read more…
As Unite’s period dignity campaign goes from strength to strength, with more and more employers signing up to commit to providing free sanitary products in workplaces, the union is breaking down…Read more…
Congratulations to London Ambulance Service branch’s Battersea station who are the overall winners of our Grovember branch noticeboards competition
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Moves toward industrial action ballot see Manchester hospital’s facility staff welcome in the new year with a pay boost
The article Wythenshawe Sodexo staff win NHS pay rates first appeared on the…Read more…