Unite Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) members working in the north division have moved one step closer to strike action after a consultative ballot in which 75 per cent voted to strike over working…Read more…
September – and we are on song!
Health pay, local government cuts, outsourcing, Brexit…. new term, same curriculum
The article September – and we are on song! first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Worst is yet to come’
In a remarkable mutiny against their own party, Tory council chiefs in England have warned the “worst is yet to come” in brutal local authority spending cuts. The predominately Conservative…Read more…
Ten years after the crash, the UK economy is going nowhere
After eight years of austerity, today’s revisions to the second quarter GDP figures suggest there’s no light at the end of the tunnel for workers feeling the squeezeRead more…
Poverty pay UK – millions of self-employed earn less than the minimum wage
Two million out of the UK’s four million self-employed workers are now stuck on poverty payRead more…
“Support our strike and say no to pension poverty and privatisation”
Support Staffordshire strike
Dear John,
Staffordshire University employers have announced that they will move lower-paid staff into a “subco” or wholly-owned subsidiary company, …Read more…
Blog: Proud of our union, our party and our essential link
The past few days at Labour conference have been great for both our party and our union. Few Labour conferences would provide such a strong argument for the importance of the Labour Link to UNISON…Read more…
Pirelli Tyres fined
Pirelli Tyres has been slapped with a £512,000 fine after two workers were injured in almost exactly the same way in accidents that occurred two years apart at the firm’s Carlisle site. The…Read more…
‘Callous and outrageous’
Unite, which represents cabin crew, is calling on British Airways (BA) to revoke an appallingly authoritarian and unjust decision which has resulted in its Hong Kong cabin crew being dismissed…Read more…
‘Make way for a party that can’
Jeremy Corbyn said a no deal Brexit will be a “national disaster” that he will work to avoid as he met with EU officials in Brussels today (September 27) to discuss what would happen if Labour took…Read more…
Legal battle lines drawn
Unite is gearing up for a legal battle with Sainsbury’s over a collective grievance by the union’s members in the long-running ‘sign or be sacked’ contracts row affecting 123,000 workers. …Read more…
Patients before profit
The fight against NHS privatisation goes on as maintenance and estates staff at both York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust have gone on…Read more…
End of Labour Party Conference 2018
I am now back in Newham from a very much “full on” Party conference in Liverpool. I think I attended 9 different fringes on housing, the conference housing debates and learnt from all the speeches and also from all the wide ranging Q&A sessions.
The Tories Industrial Strategy is in tatters – we need a Labour Government to rebuild UK manufacturing.
The UK stands at the crossroads. The country faces the prospect of crashing out of the European Union inflicting untold damage on our manufacturing industries if we are faced with no customs union or…Read more…
‘Eroded day by day’
The dire threat posed to health visiting in the UK has long been highlighted by Unite – and today (September 26) Unite delegate Joyce Still brought that message to the Labour Party conference. …Read more…
Wholly owned subsidiaries threat
Labour conference delegates were reminded of the clear and present dangers posed to the NHS through Tory privatisation by Unite today (September 26). First time speaker and Unite member Simon…Read more…
‘The new common sense’
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ignited the party’s conference in his closing speech this afternoon (September 26) as he called for a “radical plan to rebuild and transform our country”. He paid…Read more…
Childcare plans will make a huge difference to young families and nursery staff
Young families across the country are struggling because childcare costs are such a massive drain on their finances.
The article Childcare plans will make a huge difference to young families and…Read more…
UNISON reacts to Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Labour Party Conference
Jeremy Corbyn delivered a speech that shows Labour is a radical government in waiting, ready to unite our communities
The article UNISON reacts to Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Labour Party…Read more…
‘Important victory’
On the final day of the Labour Party conference (September 26) Unite delegate Ian Bruce moved an emergency motion on the crisis facing the Royal Liverpool Hospital, which had been mothballed…Read more…