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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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
The article Branch noticeboard competition winners…Read more…
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…
The rise in the number of jobs since the financial crisis has come at the expense of quality jobs, new research delving into employment trends of the last decade has found. A Resolution…Read more…
This is a model housing motion from London Labour Housing Group. It makes perfect sense to me. I have submitted to West Ham GC as a UNISON delegate.
“This conference notes:
1.That the number of households in London who rent from private la…Read more…
Well, here’s something. In a previous blog I noted that Liontrust Asset Management is apparently both a Tier 1 and a Tier 2 signatory of the Stewardship Code (though the statement is the same in both links).
Well, I had a bit of a Google around and I …Read more…
Commenting on the Brexit vote today (Tuesday) UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The country has no faith in the Prime Minister’s ability to get her Brexit deal passed, now it’s clear MPs…Read more…
Norfolk’s run of bad luck has led to questions over whether the county’s neglected transport network could be to blame and speaks to issues suffered by many of the UK’s rural areas more…Read more…
Unite accused Labour-led Birmingham city council of using Tory anti-trade union laws to attack its own workforce in a shameful defence of ‘secret payments’ today (January 15). It follows a…Read more…
Unite members have welcomed the launch of the union’s Brexit helpline for EU members, as uncertainty around the Tories botched handling of the process continues to grow. The helpline, launched…Read more…
There could be ‘a bright future’ for creative paper innovators Arjowiggins, which went into administration today (January 15), Unite has said. Unite has about 600 members at Arjowiggins which…Read more…
Unite said it would be working to ensure the ‘unity of purpose’ shown at the first meeting of the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) development partnership is put into action. The partnership involving…Read more…