UNISON’s disabled members are working hard to combat unfair treatment at work
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UNISON’s disabled members are working hard to combat unfair treatment at work
The article Unlocking our potential first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Commenting on media reports today (Monday) that the Treasury is planning a new approach to public sector pay, with wage increases based on performance and location, UNISON general secretary Dave…Read more…
‘The women are standing up,’ say Glasgow equal pay claimants on eve of strike
The article Glasgow: strikers speak out first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The BEIS Select Committee is right on the Government’s confused government auto stance, but wrong on bringing forward a diesel ban to 2032 – we need an industrial policy if a just transition to…Read more…
UNISON is proud to be unique among unions in having a dedicated charity, There for You, which supports our members when life gets tough.
The article Never too big to care first appeared on the…Read more…
Figures show the importance of controlling hazards, as European Health and Safety Week gets under way.
The article Cleaners at the forefront of needlestick injuries first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Exorbitant hospital parking charges have increasingly become the norm in England because the NHS is so starved of funds.
The article Extortionate parking charges and fines for health staff,…Read more…
If the government really wants to stand up for working people, next week’s Budget must address the longest squeeze on real wages in two centuriesRead more…
With a week to go until the Budget, we’re clear that austerity won’t be over until the Chancellor starts to invest properly in the UK economyRead more…
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Picture collage from yesterday’s campaigning in Boleyn Ward by-election, Newham. There had been 3 teams out in the morning and I joined our truly exceptional candidate, Moniba Khan, for the 3pm session with as it happens, all West Ham CLP comrades.
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Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for an absence since my last post. I have needed to concentrate on getting the first full thesis draft submitted This is now book and am working on editing and then (all being well) submitting the final version.
Also, the d…Read more…
Sign the petition to help save jobs in shipbuilding in the UK. Cammell Lairds has just won £619million’s worth of contracts to build the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Ships, but in stead of…Read more…
This is my message to UNISON members of the Social Housing Pension Scheme, who will no doubt be worried about their families pension futures.
Inside Housing magazine has reported on this completely unwarranted attack on the Social Housing Pensio…Read more…
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool THE contradiction between Labour’s … MoreRead more…
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
19 October 2018
By John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing and Carolyn Jones
This week has seen ‘gig’ workers and people on zero-hours contracts take a stand against low pay and insecure jobs, with…Read more…
Britain’s divisions along cultural, education and economic lines were laid bare in a new wide-ranging study by anti-extremism campaigning group Hope Not Hate. The study, which is based on six…Read more…
Unite members are being urged to write to their MPs and ask them to support legislation to reform outdated abortion law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Next week, Labour MP for Hull…Read more…
Unite will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) set up by NHS trusts and designed to avoid paying tax. Unite,…Read more…