At this time of real insecurity, it’s time the government provided much needed funds across the whole public sector, before further long-lasting and avoidable damage is caused
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Landmark UNISON case confirms minimum annual leave for all workers
Court of Appeal ruling has implications for hundreds of thousands of employees
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Labour Unions – Campaigning for a Labour Government
I was pleased to see that the 12 trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party have renamed their co-ordinating organisation, formerly called TULO/Unions together, to become “Labour Unions” – which just makes things clearer.
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Air strike suspended
A strike by more than 4,000 workers at Heathrow due to start tomorrow at 00:01 and finish at 23:59 has been suspended while the workforce votes on an improved pay offer, Unite said today (5 August)….Read more…
True state of NHS
The crisis afflicting Britain’s health services continues this week, with Unite health visitors engaged in fresh industrial action amid a backdrop of misleading NHS spending pledges from prime…Read more…
“Manufacturing meltdown”
Unite’s Steve Turner joined Harland and Wolff shipyard workers on August 1 – their fourth day of protests against the site’s closure. The union’s assistant general secretary for…Read more…
Young people are a catalyst for change – Why young people can provide the change we all need
As a young person, with a job, growing up in a primarily working-class city with most young people around me in employment, I can safely say that young people do have drive to be active within a…Read more…
More funding needed to tackle NHS staffing gaps, says UNISON
New cash will begin to address years of underfunding but more is desperately needed
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To the last 100 years of Council Housing in Newham and the next 100
Last Thursday evening I came back from holiday and went to the 3rd Newham Council Tenants and Leaseholders forum in East Ham Town Hall for Plaistow and Green Street residents.
There was around 50 residents present. Councillor Shaban Mohammed was the l…Read more…
Brexit, Productivity And Competitiveness
By Professor David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at Birmingham Business School at University of Birmingham, Visiting Professor at Centre for Brexit Studies and Senior Fellow at UK in a…Read more…
Review: Dead Lions, by Mick Herron
The second of Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb thrillers is as good as the first. But … you have to love the characters. Perhaps ‘love’ is the wrong way of putting it. They are,…Read more…
Heathrow staff demand fair pay
Heathrow Airport bosses were today (2 August) warned against opting to pay millions of pounds in compensation to airlines for cancelled flights and causing passenger misery, rather than going the…Read more…
School holiday hunger hell
Thousands of people across the country took part in a Unite-organised day of action yesterday (August 2) to stop Universal Credit (UC). In 63 separate events in England and Wales, campaigners…Read more…
Boris Johnson must prioritise pay for public sector workers, says UNISON
Dave Prentis writes to the Prime Minister calling for pay boost
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Swindon’s first council estate – The Addison Act and the building of Pinehurst
Pinehurst was Swindon’s first council housing estate. Building started under the 1919 Housing and Planning Act introduced by Liberal … MoreRead more…
Staff at Bradford Hospitals Trust strike over privatisation plans
Two-week action to oppose two-tier workforce
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‘Struggling to cope’
They may not be the most visible staff in the NHS but their behind-the-scenes work is absolutely vital – a staggering 70 per cent of all diagnoses made in the health service involved pathologists….Read more…
Holiday hunger
Universal Credit (UC) is causing thousands of children to go hungry this summer according to a survey by Unite. More than four fifths (79 per cent) of parents in a survey of over 1,000…Read more…
‘Take no-deal off table now’ call
Investment in the UK’s car industry faces collapse from the threat of a cliff-edge Brexit new figures show – leading to renewed calls from Unite for prime minister Boris Johnson to take no deal off…Read more…
Review: Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
To be honest, I never heard of Mick Herron — but having just read a review of the sixth book in the series, I thought I’d give it a go. And I’m hooked. Herron has been compared to…Read more…