Ministers should stop regarding trade unions as ‘the enemy within’ when it comes to partnership working to jump-start the UK’s dismal productivity record, Unite said today (July 10). …Read more…
Contradictory tangle
George Osborne’s emergency summer Budget was released with much fanfare on Wednesday (July 8), with the announcement of a compulsory “Living Wage” being hailed as the chancellor’s “master stroke”….Read more…
Migrant workers expose wins plaudits
The Unite communications department took home two awards at the TUC trade union communications awards on Tuesday night (July 7), including winner of the Best Feature category and a Highly Commended…Read more…
Unite Rules Conference – day four
Note:
This report is incomplete as I don’t yet have the official record of decisions. I will update it when I do.
The main excitement of the day was conference overturning the Executive Council over Gibraltar. NR/4 created an Area Activist…Read more…
Barnet UNISON Secretary Victim of Hate Crime
I pass on the following news without comment except to express full solidarity and support to John Burgess and Barnet UNISON.
As trade unions resist the attacks we…Read more…
Pay offer ends action
Strike action at pharmaceuticals and healthcare supplier United Drugs/Sangers was suspended yesterday (July 9) after management offered the workforce a backdated pay improvement. Unite…Read more…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Local Trade Unionist Victim of Hate Crime
Barnet UNISON Press Release: 10 July 2015
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TELL THE BARCELONA FOOTBALL CLUB TO DROP QATAR AIRWAYS
Abdes Ouaddou, the Moroccan footballer who found himself a victim of kafala when his Qatari club stopped paying him and refused to let him leave the country when he protested, has been a tireless…Read more…
Construction failure reflects neglect and recklessness under the coalition
Latest ONS figures show construction falling by -1.3 per cent into May; this follows a Q1 growth figure that was the slowest for two years. The chart below shows the longer view. Construction output caved-in in the early years of the coalition; from ar…Read more…
George Osborne: British Conservative or German-style Christian Democrat?
My former TUC colleague Duncan Weldon, who is now the Newsnight economics correspondent, has written an interesting post for his BBC web page today under the headline ‘Osborne’s “Christian Democrat Budget”? Duncan knows that I’ve long taken an interest in the German economic model and, accordingly,…Read more…
UNISON care workers recieve compensation after violent incident at work
Most people join a union for personal advice and support at work or the benefits of having collective bargaining over your terms and conditions.
Free legal advice and representation by trusted and expert union lawyers is also something to bear …Read more…
Balfour Beatty heading for the rocks:
Balfour Beatty issues another profit warning UK engineering group Balfour Beatty has issued another profit warning, saying its 2015 results will be hit by a “shortfall” of £120m-£150m….Read more…
Common priorities for Europe in Britain & Ireland
Yesterday I had the honour of addressing the Congress of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), and a large part of my speech focused on the challenges facing the European Union. Including, of…Read more…
Grimsby seafood factory safe
Unite welcomed today’s (July 9) decision by Young’s Seaford to focus production at its Grimsby sites in a move that secures 500 jobs and the future of the threatened Marsden Road factory in the town….Read more…
Budget pay freeze woe
There’s no doubt public sector workers form the backbone of society and keep the essential services we often take for granted ticking over. Despite the value they deliver to every single…Read more…
Solid support
There was solid support for the London Underground stoppage today (July 9) among members of Unite, who were on strike in a dispute over the introduction of all-night Tube services from September….Read more…
The Budget of deception and despair
It is an austerity budget full of deception – thousands taken from the poorest, tens of thousands given to the richest, more tax cuts for businesses and a savage battering of the young. The…Read more…
RMT STRIKE: First of Workers’ Actions against Government’s “Productivity” Offensive.
Tube strike begins across London Underground network Tube staff have gone on strike across the entire London Underground network in a row over pay and conditions. The strike, which officially began…Read more…
Solidarity in action
In 1973, John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Bob Fulton, three Unite members took a stand against a coup on the other side of the world. They refused to help Pinochet bomb the people of Chile. …Read more…
Speeches from the, “Greece Says No” Victory Rally:
The Greece-tuc-meeting, TUC Congress House was packed on Monday night to celebrate the remarkable victory for OXI/NO in Sunday’s referendum in Greece. The Greece Solidarity Campaign’s rally was…Read more…