The government on Tuesday (August 14) hailed the latest labour market figures as it highlighted the fall in unemployment and the first significant drop in zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in several…Read more…
Cancellations, delays, chaos – yet rail fares keep on rising
With rail fare rises outstripping wages yet again, the time has come to return our railways to public ownershipRead more…
If a Police Officer can have his pension scammed then is anyone safe under Tory “Pension freedoms” ?
Check out this BBC report about a serving Police Officer who was cheated out of his pension but managed to win £135,000 compensation from the Ombudsman for his fund’s failure to properly warn him about risks. The Police Officer had been “persuade…Read more…
‘Autumn of anarchy’?
Unite members at Ainscough, the UK’s premier mobile crane company, are preparing to begin balloting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The 400 plus Unite member are furious that…Read more…
‘Tax haven’ row
A Crewe engineering company, which wants to axe 62 jobs, has not been ‘frank and open’ about the true state of its finances, Unite said today (August 13). Unite is balloting for industrial…Read more…
‘They deserve better’
Cheques and cheque books issued by high street banks and the HMRC are set to be delayed after members of Unite at Communisis in Crewe voted for strike action, in a dispute over pay. The 79…Read more…
Systemic failure
A doctor has successfully appealed a decision to strike her name off the medical register after being held responsible for the tragic death of six-year-old Jack Adcock, who died from heart failure…Read more…
Coming soon: service group executive by-elections
Ballots will be held to fill 59 seats on the union’s service group executives – nominations will open in September
The article Coming soon: service group executive by-elections first appeared on the…Read more…
Beware – pickpocketing statistics on the rise
The trade union defence of RPI is key to defending workers’ interestsRead more…
Being Scrutinised at Scrunty
Recently as Cabinet member for Housing Services I was called to answer questions by the Newham Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
This is a statutory committee of Newham Councillors whose role is to hold the Councils Executive members to account and mak…Read more…
Pension costs – are they transparent enough?
UNISON urges members to fill in questionnaire to help gather evidence for parliamentary inquiry, ending on 6 September
The article Pension costs – are they transparent enough? first appeared on the…Read more…
780,000 workers are stuck on zero-hours contracts – time to ban them outright
Hundreds of thousands are still trapped in jobs that are so insecure they can’t plan childcare or budget for their weekly shopRead more…
Go Get Him Girls!
Boris Johnson’s worse nightmare. This is a great piece of contemporary political art in Southend, Essex. Hat tip Colin Nickless. Read more…
“Why Labour must adopt the full IHRA definition of anti-Semitism”
I agree with UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis, in this article published yesterday in the NewStatesman where he calls for the Labour Party to adopt the “full IHRA definition of anti-Semitism including all the examples”
As an experience…Read more…
Respond to the media frenzy – keep calm and carry on campaigning for socialism
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Have your say on private tenancies
The government is carrying out a consultation on proposals to ‘remove barriers’ to longer private-sector tenancies in England
The article Have your say on private tenancies first appeared on the…Read more…
Reading Labour council proposes to “market test” services
An emergency measure for local government crisis – suspend debt payments The virtual collapse of the council in Northampton is … MoreRead more…
‘Significant victory’
Unite today (August 10) has confirmed that members working at Total’s Shetland Gas plant have accepted an improved pay offer. Following a consultative ballot, 65 per cent of Unite members on a 94 per…Read more…
House of Fraser fears
The poor working and pay practices at Sports Direct should not be transferred to the House of Fraser now that Mike Ashley’s company has acquired the troubled High Street chain, Unite said today…Read more…
‘Short-sighted decisions’
Some temporary agency workers have been found to be working for the NHS for more than a decade at a time, in the process wasting limited health service resources, new research has found. A…Read more…