New Royal Mail boss Rico Back has joined a litany of fat cat chief executives raking in huge pay packets as their workers struggle to gain modest wage rises. Reports emerged yesterday (May 16)…Read more…
‘Culture change’ call
Unite, which represents Oxfam staff is supporting the charity to quickly replace its chief executive Mark Goldring who announced yesterday (May 16) that he is stepping down at the end of the year….Read more…
‘We deserve better’
Unite members working on contracts by Magna Exteriors (Liverpool) Limited at the Halewood and Ellesmere Port sites have begun balloting for strike action and an overtime ban this week in a dispute…Read more…
‘Welcome intervention’
The influential House of Commons Defence select committee has called for ‘a pause’ over the possible privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters. Unite has welcomed the committee’s…Read more…
Two new senior appointments at UNISON
Margaret Thomas and Emilie Oldknow are to become assistant general secretaries
The article Two new senior appointments at UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
End of the line
Unite has called for the East Coast rail service to be permanently taken back into public ownership, following the government’s decision to temporarily renationalise it in the wake of its operators…Read more…
Pay justice fight
Thousands of low-paid health staff are not eligible for wages rises under an impending NHS pay deal because their work has been outsourced. About 1,600 Barts Health workers, including porters,…Read more…
UNISON responds to NAO report on Capita and NHS England
UNISON highlighted the huge risks in these ambitious plans from the outset.
The article UNISON responds to NAO report on Capita and NHS England first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Capita failure
“Way below standard” NHS services provided by outsourcing firm Capita to 39,000 GPs, dentists, opticians and pharmacists “potentially put patients at risk of serious harm”, the National Audit Office…Read more…
Guide To Venezuelan Elections This Weekend
With much of the printed media in the UK and USA already describing the Venezuelan elections being held this weekend as being ‘flawed’, or worse, and stating that even if elected by…Read more…
Post-Grenfell report falls short
While the report makes a number of good recommendations, it falls short of providing the kind of safety regime that is needed.Read more…
Greater London UNISON Labour Link backs Janet Danby for Lewisham East
Greater London UNISON Labour Link has made a supportive nomination for our union member (and former social worker) Janet Daby in the Lewisham East by election.
She is also the Lewisham Deputy Mayor and will make an excellent Parliamentary candidate.
Carillion: shareholder primacy plus shareholder inaction
As most people will be aware, the Work and Pensions and BEIS committee have published their joint report on the Carillion collapse today. I won’t bother rehashing much better summaries of what it says that you can read elsewhere, rather I want to focus…Read more…
Care integration – lessons from Wales
Delivering better health and care integration is a challenge in all parts of the U.K. and internationally. We should try and learn from experiences elsewhere, and I was in Cardiff today contributing…Read more…
Nursery campaigners meet minister to call for better funding
Salford UNISON, parents and mayor put the case to Nadhim Zahawi
The article Nursery campaigners meet minister to call for better funding first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
A brutal massacre in Gaza
We condemn the government of Israel for its actions that have brought fresh pain to the Palestinian people and we pledge to redouble our efforts to campaign for the rights of Palestinians, peace and…Read more…
Revisit CITB plans call
Unite is warning that the groundbreaking Constructionarium project is at risk of closure as a direct result of the Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) plans to close their headquarters at…Read more…
Inflation-busting deal
Unite has negotiated a pay deal that beats inflation over the next three years for 22,000 workers across Rolls Royce. The union has agreed an increase of 3.7 per cent for this year…Read more…
‘Hubris and greed’
Carillion’s “shyster” bosses bear responsibility for the outsourcing giant’s devastating collapse, but the Tories lacked “the decisiveness or bravery” to reign in the corporate excess that allowed…Read more…
Blog: All too often, early years services are a poor relation
Thanks to UNISON, the government have agreed to meet with UNISON members tomorrow. Yet the person they’re sending to the meeting is Nadhim Zahawi – the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department…Read more…