This year we are recalling several anniversaries that are important to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Britain. Read more…
Closing the housing gender pay gap in a “mans world”.
Check out this article in last Friday’s Inside Housing on the recent compulsory disclosure on gender pay in the sector. I made some points on behalf of my UNISON branch.
“Last April, the middle-earning woman at Genesis earned 71 pence for …Read more…
Unite calls for tougher takeover laws as GKN bid gets government go-ahead
Unite calls for tougher takeover laws as GKN bid gets government go-ahead24 April 2018The whims of short-term speculators and hedge funds will ‘drive a coach and horses’ through the UK’s industrial strategy unless the government toughens up the UK’s ta…Read more…
Blog: The future of our country depends on it
This Tory government have sought to trash early-years support by failing to support them nationally or provide the necessary resources to local authorities. Now they need to hear the message loud and…Read more…
Construction skills threat
Unite has warned that the Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) restructuring plans are mired in confusion and the organisation is guilty of failing to properly consult the industry on its…Read more…
GKN takeover decision slammed
Business secretary Greg Clark waved through the Melrose takeover of GKN in a statement today (April 24) in Parliament – a move which Unite has slammed. Clark said that “on the basis of…Read more…
University of Bath agrees to reinstate living wage
UNISON welcomes ‘urgently needed first step’ but says more must be done to tackle pay inequality
The article University of Bath agrees to reinstate living wage first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Honouring Mary Seacole
Amid the Windrush immigration scandal, it’s never been more important to celebrate our Commonwealth brothers and sisters and their present and historic contributions. Mary Seacole, a…Read more…
Zero-hours contracts up
Zero-hours contracts are again on the rise, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published yesterday (April 23). The contracts, which offer no guaranteed…Read more…
How dare ministers try to blame the Windrush fiasco on Home Office staff | Mark Serwotka
It’s shameless of Theresa May and Amber Rudd to try to shift the blame on to people who have a difficult enough job as it is
The escalating Windrush scandal has rightly caused national outrage….Read more…
Ministers blaming Home Office staff is a perverse twist in the Windrush scandal | Mark Serwotka
It’s shameless of Theresa May and Amber Rudd to try to shift the blame on to people who have a difficult enough job as it is
The escalating Windrush scandal has rightly caused national outrage….Read more…
Review: A Higher Loyalty – Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
In this 290 page book, Donald Trump does not make an appearance until page 210. This is not what you’d have expected, given the media focus on the sacked FBI director’s account of his…Read more…
Five years on from the Rana Plaza tragedy. Has anything changed?
Five years on from the Rana Plaza tragedy that claimed over 1,100 lives, Bangladesh is still caught between a safer future and dangerous old habits.Read more…
Merger arbitrage in practice: Sand Grove Capital
Given the renewed interest in financial market activity around mergers and acquisitions, I thought it might be interesting to have a look at the regulatory disclosures for one of the funds that has caught my eye lately.
I hadn’t heard of Sand Grove Ca…Read more…
‘We Are Our Own Liberators’ – The Black Liberation Front Documentary Film
By the Young Historians Project https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-film-we-are-our-own-liberators YHP presents this short film about the history of the Black Liberation Front. Along with an…Read more…
Labour’s Housing Green Paper – Part 1
We need 100,000 council homes a year not “affordable homes” “We have a housing crisis in this country that can only be solved by local government building more. Labour’s 2017 manifesto promised to build 100,000 council homes to ‘rent or buy…Read more…
Vote Labour 3 May 2018!
It’s up on my window! Is yours?Read more…
A new deal
It’s been nearly a decade of Tory-driven austerity and working families across Britain have endured assault after assault — to their pay, to their terms and conditions, to their public…Read more…
Heed Unite EV strategy call
Unite has cautiously welcomed an agreement between the UK and Michigan to collaborate on autonomous cars and other developments in road transport, warning that it should not be interpreted as a…Read more…
Local Government Pay – All you need to know.
UNISON (and other unions) submitted our pay claim in January for 2018-19.
WHAT WE ASKED FOR:
The claim was for a flat rate increase of £1500 or 6.5% – whichever was the greater ( based on a 37 hr week and applied after the Scottish Local Government t Living Wage rate has been updated), with a similar percentage increase in allowances.
We are also looking for a commitment to make up forRead more…