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Caparo steel group to cut 452 jobs across UK sites
Steel company Caparo Industries is cutting 452 jobs across its UK sites after going into administration earlier this month. More than 300 jobs are being lost at plants in the West Midlands, with…Read more…
‘Degraded and ashamed’
Five years ago foodbanks were not something that everyone would necessarily have heard of and a decade ago they barely existed in the UK. Now there are over 1,000 foodbanks in the UK and in…Read more…
The Lone Chancellor
The tax credit cuts saga continued in Parliament yesterday (October 29) as Labour MP Frank Field urged the government through a cross-party motion to rethink its tax credit reforms that, if pushed…Read more…
Tricks but no treats
Join us on Monday to stop this nightmare that is the Trade Union Bill
The article Tricks but no treats first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Open University cutbacks will hit staff and students says UNISON
Open University staff will get full support in their campaign against plans to close seven regional offices and axe 500 jobs, UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis declared today when he visited the…Read more…
When the cared for becomes the carer
Graeme Ellis’s experience of homecare made him determined to improve the lives of others in his situation
The article When the cared for becomes the carer first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Ballot Papers now out- vote Dave Brinson #1
Ballot papers were dispatched on Wednesday, and have begun arriving on members’ doormats this morning. Please take a minute to fill in your ballot form, and return it: it’s YOUR union, make your…Read more…
The First May Day 1890 poem
The First May Day
Punch 3rd May 1890
A universal movement in favour of shorter hours would seem
best fitted to secure the amelioration of the labourer’s lot.
The Times.
Enthusiastic Operative to…Read more…
Keep on fighting
In our final installment to celebrate Black History Month this week on UNITElive, we meet Unite members Nikita Uddin and Joe Welch The slave trade is inextricably linked to Britain’s history. While…Read more…
McCarthyism at John Lewis Partnership 1949
In April 1949, The
John Lewis Partnership central council voted 60 to 34 to adopt a
recommendation that in future all employees should be asked to sign a declaration
that they are neither members…Read more…
Episode 14: ‘I’m in big trouble, Hughie’
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week….Read more…
Petition launched to re-instate suspended UNISON steward
Further demonstration planned today after Sandy Nicholl is suspended over claims he allowed students to occupy SOASRead more…
Union outrage as Tube bosses try to pick off workers one by one
TSSA calls on Boris Johnson to attend face-to-face meeting to resolve Night Tube disputeRead more…
Taxi drivers warn of ‘go-slow’ campaign in Leicester
RMT launches campaign against scapegoating of driversRead more…
UNISON members to ballot for strike at Open University to save 500 jobs
Ballot of UCU members is already underway over plans to close seven regional centres and axe 500 jobsRead more…
Unions in Wales join forces with bosses to oppose TU Bill
Westminster government urged to reconsider “blatant attack on unions”Read more…
Social Democratic Party – StGeorge’s & Wapping Banner
Members of the Social Democratic Party (formally Social Democratic Federation pre 1908) selling their journal Justice Read more…
European Parliament calls for Edward Snowden to be protected from extradition
Brussels, 29/10/2015. European Parliament MEPs today called on EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition…Read more…
Karren Brady: hands off West Ham fans’ tax credits
To: Baroness Karren Brady Stop voting to cut the tax credits that hard working West Ham fans rely on to get by.
Why is this important? I’m a former season ticket holder and lifelong West Ham fan. I was disgusted to see that West Ham’s Vice Chair…Read more…