What can we do to help UNISON grow this week?
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What can we do to help UNISON grow this week?
The article Let’s walk and talk … first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Last week, the Brexit drama became a full-blown crisis. Anxiety is growing throughout industry over the continuing confusion and uncertainty over the terms of Brexit, and the possibility that…Read more…
They support, they advise and they ensure that every UNISON member reaches the person or people who can help them with any issues they’re facing. Most UNISON members will never need the support that…Read more…
“We can’t be bounced into a bad Brexit – the idea that the only choice is between this deal or no deal is preposterous and an insult to the country” says Unite’s Len McCluskey…Read more…
Unite is demanding that employers take action to ensure that workers are granted toilet dignity in the workplace. Unite believes that tens of thousands of workers in the UK either are not…Read more…
The TUC has published new guidance on how to get an employer to agree to give union reps paid time off work to trainRead more…
The UK state pension age is already on the rise – now the IMF thinks people might have to work into their 70s before retiringRead more…
Love this. Calendar present 2018 (March) from my Mum. Painting by Welsh artist Kyffin Williams sometime 1990 – 2006. Read more…
Timothy Phillips has written a gripping account of the secret war between the British intelligence services and the Bolsheviks during the 1920s. Based largely on documents he unearthed in the…Read more…
Scotland and the North West also pick up trophies as the annual LGBT recruitment awards are announced in Harrogate
The article Cardiff City wins LGBT branch organising award first appeared on the…Read more…
Delegates at UNISON’s LGBT conference unanimously backed changing the group’s name to LGBT+ to boost inclusivity
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UNISON president Gordon McKay praises delegates for all the work they do
The article ‘Thank you for making people’s lives better’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
This picture collage is from today’s March and Rally in Central London. Newham Labour Councillors, Party members & supporters met in the morning outside Stratford Station in order to travel down together to the march.
While we were gathering there…Read more…
CEO of Touchstone charity addresses conference about the work the organisation does
The article LGBT delegates hear of the need for more safe spaces first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Delegates also hear emotional debates on ‘conversion therapy’ and the lack of marriage equality in Northern Ireland
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Conference hears of treatment of the Palestinian people, plus the plight of LGBT workers in Colombia, Turkey and Jamaica
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Assistant general secretary tells LGBT delegates of the challenges facing the union in the ‘fourth industrial revolution’
The article Fighting against low pay ‘at the heart of UNISON’s…Read more…
Delegates speak of the rise in bigoted language and praise UNISON for leading the fightback among trade unions
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Today, Unite members will be coming together in central London from across the country to join thousands of trade unionists and anti-racist campaigners to stand up to the rise of the far right and…Read more…