As TGI Fridays workers continue in their fight for fair tips, it has now been revealed that the restaurant chain’s top boss is cashing in on a massive pay rise – which takes her total pay to more…Read more…
Report: Unite Policy Conference 2018
This isn’t an official report, but is accurate to the best of my knowledge. If you spot any errors or omissions, please let me know. I have also uploaded the official “progress of business”.
You can refer to the conference agenda (the pack of motions …Read more…
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival
I had the pleasure of attending the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival yesterday. Some thirty years ago I worked in Dorset, and as Chair of the local trades council, I helped to organise this event. I still…Read more…
‘Loud and clear message’
Doctors in Unite (DiU) will be supporting a demonstration tomorrow (July 24) in protest against GP at Hand, an online NHS GP app powered by private company Babylon that critics have said is…Read more…
UNISON members keep our services running over the summer – they deserve our thanks
We are now, undisputedly, in the summer holiday season. In the weeks ahead, millions of people will head off around the UK and out of the country on holiday – taking a break from their day to day. I…Read more…
Why it’s time to change the law on hot workplaces
It’s against the law to transport livestock when it gets too hot, so why are workers still forced to toil in this heat?Read more…
F**k business
Before his latest piece of self-promotion, Boris Johnson had been in the news for making an interesting remark – “Fuck business” – in a conversation about the attitudes of corporates towards Brexit. Though it’s a few weeks back now, it seems this remar…Read more…
NHS 70 : Celebrate and Defend Party in Gateshead
Belated picture collage from NHS 70th Birthday Party held on 5 July in Gateshead. UNISON Labour Link Executive was meeting nearby “across the water” to prepare for the National Forum which started the following day and we volunteered to join the celebr…Read more…
“Tell Esther McVey MP not to scrap the pensions dashboard”
I have already about 10 different defined benefit and defined contribution pensions. It is ridiculous in this day and age that we cannot have a single dashboard to control them.”Do not scrap the promised pensions dashboard, a website that would help mi…Read more…
Review: The Race to Save the Romanovs, by Helen Rappaport
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Russian imperial family by the Bolsheviks. Among those killed were not only the hated Tsar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, but also their…Read more…
Shareholder primacy and utilities
A theme I think anyone with an interest in corporate governance should keep an eye on is the way that the interests of investors in a firm in relation to others are portrayed in financial media and elsewhere.
Under the 1990s model it was common to see…Read more…
The perils of political seismology
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Philosophical Belief Discrimination
Interesting…. (no known relation)
Philosophical Belief Discrimination
Can an employer discriminate on grounds of philosophical belief where the employee is the only person to hold such a belief?
No, held the EAT in Gray v Mulberry.
Ms Gray worked…Read more…
Short stuff
Like everyone does, I spent a bit of my spare time yesterday having a quick trawl through the FCA’s list of disclosed short positions. Quite often these fishing trips end up leaving me empty handed, but this time I stumbled on something interesting.
Letting the government off the hook over removal of housing subsidy
Hat tip Redbrick (shame because Dispatches have a good track record)
“With reporter Antony Barnett driving between sites in a flash open top and very sporty white car, trying to link a number of disconnected stories under the disingenuous title of ‘Ge…Read more…
UNISON lawyer wins major human rights award
Shantha David named Liberty’s lawyer of the year for leading the fight against employment tribunal fees
The article UNISON lawyer wins major human rights award first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
NEU staff pay slash
Unite members working for the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest union for teaching and lecturing staff, took strike action this week (July 19) in protest at the ‘salami slicing’ of…Read more…
‘Beggars belief’
Unite the union has today (July 20) reacted to an asbestos exposure incident at the Bridge of Don Academy, Aberdeen by highlighting previous health and safety concerns raised by union…Read more…
Manchester Metrolink strike vote
Over 340 Unite members working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink will start voting on whether to take industrial action over pay from today (July 20) in a dispute which could see drivers on the tram…Read more…
Beating the heat?
This month’s relentlessly high temperatures are set to continue next week and, if the hot weather lingers much longer, the UK could be in for a record-breaking summer. For some, the sun has…Read more…