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…
More join our fight against violence at work
Community service group committed to using the charter to help end the belief that violence and aggression is ‘part of the job’
The article More join our fight against violence at work first…Read more…
UK firms used 1.8 million zero-hour contacts in 2017 – it's time to ban zero-hour contracts
New data confirm the scale of the zero-hour contracts problem. We believe that everyone should have the right to a contract that guarantees the hours they work. The Government should ban zero-hour…Read more…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Saturday 28 April 2018 10.45-11.15am at Clasping Hands Statue, 3 Mills Green, E3 3DU
This is a really important event in the Labour movement calendar and takes place, I think, at the most significant but unknown example of historic working class art in East London. I hope that as many members of the Labour Movement family can attend as…Read more…
Arwald: Jutish King of the Isle of Wight
Last Jutish King of the Isle of Wight celebrated on St Arwald’s Day onthewight https://onthewight.com/last-jutish-king-of-the-isle-of-wight-celebrated-on-st-arwalds-day/ Did you know that Arwald was…Read more…
Rokhsana Fiaz Pledges for Newham
Short and sharp speech by Rokhsana Fiaz outlining her key policies and welcome different approach to local politics at the fifth birthday celebration of Custom House’s PEACH
“Rokhsana Fiaz, the new labour candidate for Newham Mayor…Read more…