Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
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Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
The article Bolton hospital workers to ballot on action for pay parity first appeared…Read more…
A court case that ultimately granted Uber back its London operating licence may have been compromised, following revelations over a conflict of interest that prompted the presiding magistrate to step…Read more…
The government today (August 21) announced its biggest budget surplus in nearly two decades – a development Unite says is proof that needless austerity must end. Experts had estimated a July…Read more…
Former employees from the defunct Lehman Brothers investment bank, which played a key role in the 2008 global financial crisis, are planning a party on the 10th anniversary of its collapse – a move…Read more…
Tory ambitions to turn the UK into a “21st Century exporting superpower” have been lambasted as “hot air” . Unite described the government’s post-Brexit ambitions, laid out by international…Read more…
The government’s so-called National ‘Living Wage’ (NLW) is anything but, as new research shows families with two parents working full-time on the statutory minimum will not earn enough to support…Read more…
While the government celebrated a record budget surplus today (August 21), ordinary people are barely keeping their heads above water in a sea of outstanding household debt approaching £19bn, new…Read more…
Everyone who has ever received support from UNISON knows how vital our union’s activists are. In every branch, they are the beating heart of the union, UNISON members working tirelessly to support…Read more…
The UK is one of the most surveilled nations in the world – nearly 6m CCTV cameras watch us as we go about our daily lives. And now, this surveillance culture may be seeping into the…Read more…
The UK’s manufacturing sector has slipped two places to ninth in the world as uncertainty over Brexit continues. Unite said the fall showed a worrying decline in the global position of British…Read more…
Unite NHS members in Scotland have voted to accept a pay offer put to them July. A consultative ballot resulted in 71 per cent of members voting to accept the three year pay deal, effective…Read more…
The branch summer social is this week. It’s in the Fortune of War pub on Brighton seafront on Wednesday, August 22, starting at 6pm. Join fellow NUJ members (and those who are thinking of signing up)…Read more…
M.R. Carey has done it again. The Girl With All the Gifts was a terrific example of post-apocalyptic zombie fiction and this book is (mostly) the prequel. The problem with prequels is that you know…Read more…
Years of Tory austerity and an obsession with privatisation have led to “appalling” failings at HMP BirminghamRead more…
On Friday I went on a “walkabout” with residents and Newham Housing officers from the top to the bottom of Brassett Point in my ward.
It is always encouraging when you see residents who actively care about their homes and their environment. They have …Read more…
Mears Cats Action Aug 2018_ from Hero Austin on Vimeo.
Video from yesterday’s action by Newham residents at Housing Contractor, Mears PLC headquarters in Enfield.
Newham Mayor, Rokhsana Fiaz and I joined the action to show solidarity with our residen…Read more…
The following poem was written by John Fyvie, a Piper Alpha survivor. It was recited by Unite regional officer Tommy Campbell at this week’s Reflections on Piper Alpha conference in Aberdeen….Read more…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the deadliest offshore disaster in history, when the Piper Alpha platform burst into flames, killing 167 of the 228 people either working on the rig or…Read more…
94% vote for deal offering at least a 9% rise over three years, in four-week online ballot
The article Scottish NHS members vote for three-year pay deal first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…