The shortfall in funding is leading refuges to close their doors and turn women away.
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UK economy could lose £3.5bn a year under Chancellor’s planned tax credit cuts, says UNISON
The UK economy could be hit to the tune of around £3.5bn a year if the Chancellor confirms later today (Wednesday), in the spending review, that he is to continue with cuts to tax credits announced…Read more…
The NHS funding squeeze must stop: A physiotherapist’s view
I have worked in the NHS for 19 years as a physiotherapist specializing in working with children. There have been some good and bad changes over this period of time, but none have had such a negative…Read more…
Members ‘disappointed and frustrated’ at OU closures decision
Open University council approves plan to close seven regional offices and put 500 staff at risk
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No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here
The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally this year has the theme ‘No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here.’ The rally will take place on Sat 28th Nov, Assemble 10:30am Glasgow Green. Below is a…Read more…
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: 25 November 2015
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Why union branches have to follow the money…
Picture from last weeks packed Greater London workshop on branch finance in the UNISON centre. NEC Chair of the Finance Committee, Josie Bird, led the training supported by National and Regional officers.
The aims of the training were:-
To understand …Read more…
No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here
The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally this year has the theme ‘No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here.’ The rally will take place on Sat 28th Nov, Assemble 10:30am Glasgow Green. Below is a…Read more…
Follow Live Jimmy Reid Lecture by Nicola Sturgeon
Follow Live Jimmy Reid Lecture by Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon MSP First Minister of Scotland
Tonight First Minister of Scotland, Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon MSP, will give the Jimmy Reid Lecture at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, on the Trade Union Bill. The meeting will be chaired by Grahame Smith, General Secretary, STUC
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Laying waste to defence
More questions than answers arose yesterday (November 24), after the government announced the publication of its Strategic Defence Review, which outlined defence spending priorities for the next five…Read more…
Tesco Xmas disruption threat
Unite urged Tesco to revise a ‘pitiful’ pay offer of 0 per cent for 2015 and 1.5 per cent for 2016 today (November 24) to avoid potential industrial action in the run up to Christmas in its…Read more…
Time to look again at Police Scotland’s budget
There needs to be a root and branch look at Police Scotland’s budget next year. We can no longer paper over the cracks caused by badly managed centralisation.
Police Scotland’s finances got off to a…Read more…
This is a full-scale attack on the NHS, the junior doctor contract is just the start
Let’s be crystal clear (something the Secretary of State for Health has been consistent in failing to do), the junior doctors’ contract dispute is about much more than the terms and conditions…Read more…
Let’s not forget the Chancellor’s low-key but significant boost to spending in 2014
Ahead of tomorrow’s spending review and in the wake of last week’s so-called ‘terrible’ government borrowing figures, a quick reminder that the government’s ‘long-term plan’ is not quite what it seems. The chart below shows the annual growth rates of government spending (wages and salaries,…Read more…
High price of failing to help
This government must now decide which it prefers – its party’s ideology or serious action to save UK manufacturing, says Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, as he addressed the Save our Steel…Read more…
UNISON says national insurance increase will rob public sector workers
UNISON is today (Tuesday) warning George Osborne that scrapping tax rebates on pensions will leave more than five million public sector workers worse off. The rise in National Insurance (NI) payments…Read more…
Four Seasons homes closure
UNISON informed that company plans to close seven care homes across Northern Ireland
The article Four Seasons homes closure first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Hunt’s quack remedy
“The NHS is struggling to cope with five day working,” says Dr Ron Singer, chair of Doctors in Unite. “How does Jeremy Hunt think it can cope with seven day a week working?” And, of course,…Read more…
Pay result for Wales’ farm staff
Farmworkers in Wales are set to be awarded a hefty six per cent cumulative pay rise through an Interim Agricultural Wages Order, leaving England’s agricultural workers further behind after the…Read more…
Public health at risk
Bowing to pressure from NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, health experts, unions and the public, chancellor George Osborne finally caved – the Treasury announced today (November 24) that £3.8bn in…Read more…