A great update by the TUC. Watch the inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHoRead more…
GPM&IT NISC June 2018
This is my personal report, not an official one. It omits most of the industrial business, as this is often confidential. Other than that, if you are aware of any errors please let me know.
This was the first meeting of the new National Industrial Sec…Read more…
‘Inadequate’ pay offer
Workers at a leading crane manufacturer in Sunderland will be striking for two days next month in a dispute over an ‘inadequate’ pay offer. The 28 skilled crane assemblers at Liebherr…Read more…
‘Common sense policy’
As Britons today (July 26) swelter in the hottest day of the year so far – with temperatures soaring well over 30C in some parts of the country amid a relentless heatwave — Unite welcomed MPs’…Read more…
‘Pandora’s Box’
Unite members protested in York and Chesterfield yesterday (July 25) against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly owned subsidiaries to avoid paying tax, as part of a wider campaign to ban the…Read more…
‘Unbelievable’
Privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters has for now been suspended after Serco, the outsourcing firm that lost out on the private contract to Capita, launched legal proceedings…Read more…
Poverty rising
Falling incomes, austerity and Brexit have caused the biggest rise in UK poverty since the Thatcher years, according to new analysis from the Resolution Foundation. The think tank’s annual…Read more…
A year on, our employment tribunal fees win is changing lives
A year ago today, our union won a huge victory for working people, when we defeated the government on employment tribunal fees. This was a result that could only have been achieved by our union. Only…Read more…
Ready for a holiday? Here's why millions won't get one
Unrealistic workloads and unscrupulous bosses mean over three million UK workers will be cheated out of holiday leave this yearRead more…
Government owes workers millions one year on from employment tribunal fees win
Thousands of people treated unfairly at work have still not been refunded hundreds of pounds they paid out to take their employers to court, says UNISON today (Thursday). It is a year today since a…Read more…
London Region at UNISON National Labour Link Forum 2018
Picture College of the London delegation at work and at play while at the national forum earlier this month in Newcastle for the UNISON Labour Link political fund that supports the Labour Party.
I am the London Regional Chair but was at forum as an el…Read more…
Elias Canetti, centrist hegemony etc
I really like this (as quoted in this):
No-one has ever really believed that the majority decision is necessarily the wiser one because it has received the greater number of votes. It is will against will as in war. Each is convinced that right and rea…Read more…
‘Extraordinarily insensitive’
The threat to the Derbyshire psychotherapy service that helps adults traumatised in childhood by sexual and physical abuse should set alarm bells ringing with the public, Unite has warned. The…Read more…
‘In tatters’
The Ministry of Defence’s decision to freeze a competition to build the new Type 31e frigates despite detailed submissions from consortiums of UK shipyards that are backed by both Babcock and BAE…Read more…
Bring back AWB call
The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival, held in Dorset each year, commemorates Britain’s first instance of trade unionism, when farmworkers first organised for better pay in 1833. But nearly…Read more…
Defence of the Israeli state is the real motive for the campaign against Labour ‘anti-semitism’
According to Margaret Hodge Corbyn is an “ant-semite and a racist”, even though as late as March she said she … MoreRead more…
‘Flagging morale’
This week’s announcements on public sector pay by government ministers will do little to lift flagging morale or ease the ‘pay pain’ endured for the last eight years by public sector workers, …Read more…
Reheated annuity sale plans are a recipe for ripped-off savers
Helping savers get a good deal in retirement is a laudable aim, but reviving flawed plans for a secondary annuity market is not the answerRead more…
After #MeToo, what next?
Today’s Women and Equalities Select Committee report into workplace sexual harassment is a breath of fresh airRead more…
Five reasons why public sector workers are still getting hammered on pay
We’ll keep pressing for a properly funded pay rise until every hardworking public servant gets the fair deal they deserveRead more…