UK printing firm De La Rue announced today (April 18) that it would not appeal the government’s decision to hand the contract for making the new blue British passports to a supplier in France. …Read more…
UNISON vows to step up fight on wholly owned subsidiaries
Delegates at UNISON health conference voice their anger over trusts’ moves to transfer staff and create two-tier workforces
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LGBT+ rights are human rights and an attack on one person is an attack on all
A common ground was found – LGBT+ rights are human rights and an attack on one person is an attack on all persons. Dignity and equality is the right of all members of the human family and this is…Read more…
“Climate Change and Bangladesh: First Affected. Worst Affected” (Pension Carbon divestment)
(I am due to speak at this seminar as a Councillor & trade union pension activist).
“Fossil Free Newham, Tower Hamlets Divest and Hackney & Tower Hamlets Friends of Earth are teaming up to screen ’30 Million’, a film which focuses on the pligh…Read more…
TUC:
Britain isn’t delivering for working people – join us and march for the alternative Author Frances O’Grady Published date 17 Apr 2018 Britain isn’t working for working people. Photo credit: ©…Read more…
Pay the Rate: how the EU is closing the loopholes used to exploit migrant workers – but is it too late for us?
By Jude Kirton-Darling Labour MEP – North East England Concerns about free movement and EU migration were amongst the top reasons why many voted to leave in June 2016. Periodically, a dispute…Read more…
Health conference vows to fight the disease of racism in the NHS
Brexit is fuelling the discrimination against migrant workers, delegates are told
The article Health conference vows to fight the disease of racism in the NHS first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
‘Cut to the bone’
A “double whammy” of cuts and rising demand are pushing legal aid and advice workers to the brink and threatening the integrity of the justice system, a new Unite survey has revealed. The…Read more…
Deeside construction site demo
Unite members and fellow trade unionists protested the £800 million energy to waste construction site at Parc Adfer in Deeside north Wales today (April 17) as part of a campaign to stop a ‘race to…Read more…
Windrush: Unite calls for ‘dignity and respect’
Paulette Wilson, 61, has lived in the UK for just over half a century. Part of the Windrush generation – Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean who were invited by the UK government to settle in…Read more…
Ken Knapman speech in Isle of Wight Protest against the attack on Syria.
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Was the Syrian Chemical attack a hoax?
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Health conference agrees to back pay proposal
This is just the beginning of better pay for NHS staff, conference delegates hear as they vote in favour of ‘biggest pay rise in 15 years’ and Agenda for Change reform
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ISS and US pension funds vote against ICTSI directors
Proxy advisors and shareholders endorse voting against non-independent ICTSI Directors in line with ITF recommendationsGlobal proxy advisors and shareholders have recommended voting against the re-election of non-independent Directors of Filipino port …Read more…
HE unions and employers to meet again in May to talk about pay
Meeting follows offer of 1.7%, or £325 a year, made in talks on 13 April
The article HE unions and employers to meet again in May to talk about pay first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Employers in the care sector are hiding behind complex and incomplete pay slips to break wage laws
At least 200,000 care workers in the UK are only being paid for the time they spend caring for people, and not for when they are travelling between appointments
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‘The NHS has always been there’
The first person born in the NHS says that it’s too easy to take the service for granted
The article ‘The NHS has always been there’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The decline of UK manufacturing is devastating – it’s time to change course
What has happened to global manufacturing in the last half century? UK industrial decline; many new jobs in low skill, low pay sectors; and attacks on unions have left workers worse off. So what can…Read more…
Britain isn’t delivering for working people – join us and march for the alternative
On 12 May, I’ll be joining tens of thousands of others to march through London, demanding a new deal for working people.Read more…
To boost living standards, we need to strengthen unions and reverse austerity
A case for ending austerity and raising public spending for the sake of growth, “a less flexible labour market is a strategy for income growth” .Read more…