Strike action is on the cards over increased Saturday working for 18 transport drivers at AB Agriculture in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Unite the union said that its members at the animal feed…Read more…
‘Pay justice’ fight
Low paid cleaners at Luton Airport have rejected a pay offer from their employer Sasse because the offer does not meet their fair demand to be paid a Real Living Wage of £8.75 from this year. …Read more…
How to … recruit new members
Like any union, UNISON is only as strong and effective as our members acting together – the more of us there are, the better we are.
The article How to … recruit new members first appeared on the…Read more…
Boris’ Brexit slammed as ‘unrealistic’
All-out war over Brexit consumed the Tories as the party began its annual conference yesterday (September 30), with Unite warning that all of the Conservative options for leaving the EU risk living…Read more…
‘Devil’s in the details’
Unite welcomed an announcement from the prime minister Theresa May at the Tory Party conference today (October 1) that the government will introduce legislation barring restaurants from keeping staff…Read more…
Protecting jobs, saving the planet
“Climate change is here. And so are its consequences.” Union reps in the energy sector met to take action on climate change.
The article Protecting jobs, saving the planet first appeared on the…Read more…
Camden wardens start five-day strike
Pay dispute with contractor NSL escalates in north London borough
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Why a "no-deal" Brexit threatens health and safety standards
The government’s own papers show that crashing out of the EU without a deal would put our health and safety regulations at riskRead more…
The Tory in charge of Brexit has spent his career attacking workers' rights
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab has described workers’ rights as “obstacles to British business” and UK workers as “the worst idlers in the world”Read more…
The Plaistow Land Grabbers
“Hat tip to a great post by “E7 Now & Then” on “The Plaistow Land Grabbers” who are an largely forgotten but important part of the radical history of West Ham. A second post is to follow.
In a protest against unemployment, local plumber and local …Read more…
Frances O’Grady’s Speech At The Jimmy Reid Foundation Memorial Lecture, 27th September 2018
Frances O’Grady was introduced by Lynn Henderson, the vice-chair of the project board of the Foundation. Lynn is also this year’s STUC President and a longstanding national officer of the PCS union….Read more…
Just one more thing about Ryanair….
I can see that there were at least a couple of asset managers that did not vote against either David Bonderman as chairman or Kryan McLaughlin as senior independent director. And reasons given for this are that they expect the company to make changes a…Read more…
Review: Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, by Sjón
I read this book during the same week that I saw a theatrical adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague. Both works are concerned with epidemics, but there the similarity ends. While the…Read more…
Elon Musk and the SEC
This week has seen reality start to catch up with Elon Musk’s Twitter feed. Earlier in the year he famously tweeted that he had “Funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 a share. This was something of a shock to external shareholders, analysts, t…Read more…
West Ham Plays Away at Sunny Solidarity Saturday in Chingford & Woodford Green
West Ham CLP came over today to their nearby sister constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green to support Labour candidate, Faiza Shaheen, who is standing against sitting Tory MP, Ian Duncan Smith.
While driving on route I passed the famous Walthams…Read more…
We’re Rebuilding Britain
In Newham and want to challenge? I will be outside the Atherton centre tomorrow at 10.20am to take a car to Chingford and Woodford to get rid of Tory IDSRead more…
No more Carillions
Unite held a highly successful fringe meeting at Labour Party conference.
The meeting titled ‘Ending Bandit Capitalism – No More Carillions’, looked at why Carillion collapsed, examined how…Read more…
RBS closures ‘rubber-stamped’
Unite today (September 28) has criticised the announcement by Johnston Carmichael and RBS that only two branches survive the stay of execution in Scotland. The review, which has been under way…Read more…
Central London bus shake-up
Proposals for the biggest shake-up in over 16 years of London’s central bus network will leave bus drivers worried for their future their union Unite warned today (September 28), as it called on…Read more…
North west council becomes latest to sign up to ethical care
A big change for homecare workers in Knowsley
The article North west council becomes latest to sign up to ethical care first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…