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Scottish colleges “save” £99m while sacking 10% of staff
UNISON also says more than 300 staff at paid less than the Living WageRead more…
“You’ve lost your job, here’s £50″ – union slams ‘rotten’ fruit firm redundancy offer
Unite members being balloted for industrial action at Yorkshire Fresh FruitsRead more…
The shame of Rana Plaza two years on: victims still awaiting compensation
TUC also calls for an end to widespread violence against trade unions in BangladeshRead more…
USW Chemical Solutions Number 2
Download at the link below the excellent United Steelworkers Newsletter for Chemical Workers : Chemical Solutions Issue 2 with articles on Health & Safety, Dow, BSAF etcRead more…
UNISON NEC Elections 2015: John Gray Election Statement
Your existing NEC memberI am seeking your support for my re-election as one of your two members of the UNISON National Executive Committee (NEC) for Community, which is the part of the union for members who work in the voluntary sector, housing associa…Read more…
Envy of the globe
Polls have consistently shown, both months ago and now, with the election only two weeks away, that the NHS is the issue of highest concern to voters. And there’s a reason why the…Read more…
UNISON condemns colleges for ‘hiding’ £99m in arms length foundations
Thursday 23 April 2015
UNISON Scotland has condemned colleges for moving £99m into ‘Arms Length Foundations’ while cutting student services and ignoring low pay.
UNISON welcomes research by the Educational Institute for Scotland, which shows that while £99m has been siphoned off into off campus bank accounts. The sector has cut staff by 9.3% (over the last three years alone). And over 300Read more…
Evidence shows legal aid reforms led to huge rise in self-representation and increased costs to the taxpayer
“The available evidence indicates that the proportion of litigants appearing before the civil and family courts without legal representation…has increased since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) took many civil and private law children and family…Read more…
Barnet UNISON confirm two day strike begins next week 30 April and 1 May 2015.
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Barnet UNISON Press Release: 23 April 2015
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Vote FOR Resolution 22 at the National Express AGM
In less than two weeks, the day before the election, National Express has its annual meeting. Resolution 22 on the agenda is a shareholder proposal drafted and filed by three local authority pension funds that are members of the Local Authority Pension…Read more…
Irish social workers win demand for proper jobs
In Ireland February 2014, on foot of revelations that a “new graduate scheme” was being planned for newly qualifying social workers through the Child and Family Agency, social work students,…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day
International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April 2015 is our day to remember the dead and fight for the living. Up to 50,000 people die each year in the UK from work-related ill health and…Read more…
Queen’s Brian May backs the NHS Paty’s Louise Irvine in Surrey:
Why Brian May is backing Louise Irvine, and why Hunt could be facing a Portillo moment PRESS RELEASE to local press this week. Why Brian May is backing Louise Irvine – and why Hunt could be facing a…Read more…
£132 a month wage disgrace
“Keir Hardie was my kind of socialist” says Sandra Osborne and not only because of what she describes as the “outward and progressive” views of one of the towering figures in the early history of the…Read more…
International Workers’ Memorial Day: 28th April
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Building a growing economy
At the last election, Labour lost Ipswich to the Tories by 2,079 votes. Then Labour held less than half the borough council seats and only four out of 13 Suffolk county council seats. But…Read more…
Migrant rescue cut ‘indefensible in its inhumanity’
#stuc15 Delegates mourned the terrible tragedy of the 950 migrants drowned as their ship capsized off the coast of Libya just before the start of the Congress and gave overwhelming support to an emergency motion condemning the trade of people trafficking but also the reduction in search and rescue operations which is having a dramatic consequence on loss of life.
The STUC will campaign for anRead more…
On present form, there’s another 7 years of cuts to come (unless sanity prevails)
Public sector net borrowing figures today showed borrowing of £87.3 billion in the financial year 2014-15. Undoubtedly the Treasury will be making hay of it being marginally lower than the OBR Budget 2015 forecast of £90.2 billion. But the big picture remains the scale of the shortfall against the…Read more…
Hounded over the edge
The word is ‘cruelty’. That’s the only way to describe how people on benefits are treated, says Unite Community activist Colin Hampton. The current benefits regime seems to operate like a…Read more…