Michael Braithwaite, a school teaching assistant who lost his job due to the Windrush scandal, recalls his fear of deportation
The article Surviving the Windrush scandal first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
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Michael Braithwaite, a school teaching assistant who lost his job due to the Windrush scandal, recalls his fear of deportation
The article Surviving the Windrush scandal first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
UNISON members Michelle and Rachel are hoping a new law will help the thousands of people in desperate need of an organ transplant
The article The last gift: what it’s like to work with organ…Read more…
Analysing the government data on why NHS staff quit their jobs
The article Data: why NHS workers quit first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Union’s beautiful Croyde Bay resort in Devon has achieved the distinction of entering TripAdvisor’s Hall of Fame
The article UNISON inducted into TripAdvisor’s Hall of Fame! first appeared on the…Read more…
Jason Matthews writes with such authority about the CIA that I kept thinking as I read this book — he’s either got a great imagination, or he was a player. It turns out to be…Read more…
Women in leadership course participants went to Westminster to meet the region’s parliamentarians and use it as an opportunity to raise issues affecting women across the North East including period…Read more…
West Ham Labour Party are organising a campaigning event to support the Labour Candidate (and UNISON member), Janet Daby, in the Lewisham East By Election.
We are meeting outside Lee Station at 2pm on Saturday 9 June.
To get there you can meet We…Read more…
‘I was a bit nervous about coming out on strike, but we’ve all stood together and supported each other,’ says Carol, a domestic at Wrightington, Wigan and Leight NHS Trust
The article North west…Read more…
Unite urged MPs to back Heathrow expansion when it is put to a vote in the coming weeks after UK government ministers finally gave a third runway the green light today (June 5). Unite went on…Read more…
Some 120 UNISON members in Bath and north east Somerset take action over employers’ ‘work-for-free’ proposals
The article Care workers strike against pay cuts first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
TUC Interview Frances O’Grady on the TUC at 150: ‘Unions have to change or die’ By Alexandra Topping The Guardian As the organisation tries to reach younger people, its…Read more…
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) fire sale continued as the government last night (June 4) sold shares well below the price paid to bail out the bank amid the financial crisis, resulting it a total…Read more…
Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay The theme is to #BeatPlasticPollution and there are lots of ideas online about how to do that, globally and locally.
Check out the United Nations Environment Programme on today’s theme – and look closer to home in Scotland through the work of some of the many members of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland.
UNISON is an active member of SCCS, whose AGM is in GlasgowRead more…
It’s a great opportunity to come together as a public service workers, meet old friends and new and recommit to our shared values of equality, democracy and publicly owned services. Personally, I…Read more…
A really heartfelt plea by the Mayor for help in finding the murderers and reassurance that everything possible will be done to protect our young people in Newham.
“Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz has appealed for residents to come forward with any info…Read more…
Train chaos is a private, not a public sector failure.Read more…
Union announces new member benefit partner
The article UNISON’s Friendly new partner first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Unite has new evidence of a co-ordinated campaign to slash pay rates on the troubled £800 million energy from waste project at Park Adfer in Deeside North Wales. Last week (May 30) hundreds of…Read more…
The pay gap between younger and older workers has widened by nearly 50 per cent over the last two decades, leaving young people struggling to get by, according to a new report by the TUC. The…Read more…
On Saturday I mobiked through the Carpenters Estate to meet a friend at the Olympic stadium and on route had a chance to do an unofficial walkabout. While I thought that the poppies and flowers displays were lovely and well kept, I know that there are …Read more…