Some sites already charging staff again – even as COVID-19 pandemic continues
The article New survey will reveal state of NHS staff car parking first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘We’ve just been thrown under the bus’
Earlier this week, health secretary Matt Hancock dropped a bombshell announcement laying out his plans to entirely scrap Public Health England (PHE) in the middle of a pandemic, a decision which was…Read more…
‘This fight will go all the way’
British Airways ground staff and cabin crew were among those who have given overwhelmingly called for strike action to fight their employer `all the way’ in the defence of their jobs, wages and…Read more…
London Ambulance Service (LAS) choose Christina for UNISON General Secretary
“This afternoon (20th August 2020) the London Ambulance UNISON Branch Committee met and have decided to nominate Christina McAnea for General Secretary to our great union.Christina has worked with our branch on many issues and has the exper…Read more…
ADL betrayal
ADL branded ‘disgraceful and deceptive’ over Guildford production closure and Falkirk and Scarborough redundancies
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4 things we learned from running Organise 2020
The TUC hosted our first major online digital event, Organise 2020, on 9-11 July. It had originally been conceived as an offline organising summit…Read more…
Time to be ‘more German’?
In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance scheme ensures employers reduce their…Read more…
easyJet passengers and staff treated ‘with complete disregard’
easyJet’s boundless appetite for shareholder profits over the interests of their loyal workforce and passengers knows no bounds. On Monday (August 18), the airliner confirmed plans to close regional…Read more…
British Airways heading for ‘winter of discontent’
British Airways is heading for months of industrial unrest unless it steps back from proposals which will effectively force thousands of workers onto punitive and insecure zero hours-type contracts….Read more…
‘Bad housing kills’: How coronavirus overwhelmed the UK’s most overcrowded community
A good article in The Independent on Sunday. I have a few factual quibbles about the story, especially since I ranted on and on to the journalist about all the things which we are achieving in Newham. We also need the Government to do more…Read more…
UNISON wins Access to Work victory
Union pressure sees government make changes to scheme to help disabled people working from home in the pandemic
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Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL) must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said today (August 19). Unite has discovered that the…Read more…
Give disabled people the right to work from home after Covid-19, says UNISON
Survey shows majority are more productive home working but employers not allowing them
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“Because Black disabled lives matter”
Hat tip UNISON blog: Picture of Peter, my fellow executive member of Greater London Housing Association. Hopefully will see him at our zoom meeting tomorrow evening.
“UNISON activists Veronica Price-Job and Peter Daley look at how the…Read more…
New health body must be ‘fit for purpose’, says UNISON
Sara Gorton says National Institute for Health Protection must deal with Covid-19 crisis and what lies beyond
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‘Jobs for the boys and girls’?
The government has today (August 18) officially announced plans to axe Public Health England (PHE) and replace the body with a new agency, after the plans were leaked to the media at the weekend. PHE…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL), the UK’s largest bus and coach builder, must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said…Read more…
General secretary election: candidates at meetings
Any invitations to attend real or virtual meetings, as part of UNISON’s general secretary elections, must include all candidates
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Call To Arms – Daily Mirror Article On CSEU Proposals To Bring Forward Spending Plans
The Labour leadership should be accountable to the Party members
The letter which David Evans, Labour Party General Secretary has sent to CLPs shows the anti-democratic intent of the current … MoreRead more…