New professional standards for teaching assistants, which were scrapped by the government earlier this year, have been brought back to life and published today (Friday) by a group made up of unions…Read more…
A Letter From London To Our French Comrades
10 June 2016
By John Hendy QC and Professor Keith Ewing
FRENCH workers are now engaged in a historic struggle in defence of their rights. The struggle is international, as workers and trade unions…Read more…
Irish Unions help regain lost ground
10 June 2016
By Dr Eugene Hickland and Professor Tony Dundon
The Celtic tiger is dead … social partnership has collapsed … the Troika have been and gone … a new coalition government struggle to…Read more…
What is link baiting?
If you want to attract more visitors to your website, then one effective approach is “link baiting”. This is where a website features content that is so compelling that people want to link to it…Read more…
Ross Pritchard Essay Competition
The Annual Essay Competition, is open to all trade unionists, first prize £750, closing date Saturday 22nd September. The RPMF was established to commemorate the life of one of the Graphical, Paper…Read more…
Unbelievable NHS claims are losing votes for the Brexit brigade
I’m glad that Sarah Wollaston has listened to the concerns of those workers and many others – led by UNISON – over the risk Brexit poses to our public services. And I hope that her comments give…Read more…
Keep defence work at home
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has serious questions to answer about the UK’s secretive procurement policy – the latest controversy being the decision to buy nine maritime patrol aircraft from…Read more…
Cuts to social care funding hamstring health services says UNISON
Commenting on new NHS England figures published today (Thursday), highlighting the scale of delayed discharges from hospitals, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Continuous cuts to social…Read more…
Work/life balance attack
Faulty gas and electricity meters for households and businesses won’t be replaced as meter fixers working for energy giant E.ON go on strike in a ‘work/life balance’ dispute tomorrow (June 10)….Read more…
Swingeing pay cuts
Unite will ballot more than 200 North Sea oil rig workers for strike action in a dispute with the Wood Group over a swingeing 30 per cent pay cut. The ballot, in conjunction with the GMB and…Read more…
EU referendum: registration to vote deadline extended
Voter registration deadline extended for EU referendum after government website collapses
The article EU referendum: registration to vote deadline extended first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
‘I really didn’t believe it’, says UNISON prize draw winner
UNISON’s prize draw has closed – but now is the time for our winners to celebrate
The article ‘I really didn’t believe it’, says UNISON prize draw winner first appeared on the…Read more…
Health committee chair makes the right choice on EU vote, says UNISON
Responding to the defection of Sara Wollaston MP to the Remain camp over claims the NHS would benefit financially if the UK voted to leave Europe, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “When…Read more…
‘Zombie’ companies threaten millions of jobs
‘Zombie’ companies in China are selling goods lower than it costs to produce them are a threat to jobs in the UK and the rest of Europe, warned Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke as he…Read more…
Belfast Trust to impose change from weekly to monthly pay on low-paid workers
Union condemns denial of right to negotiate
The article Belfast Trust to impose change from weekly to monthly pay on low-paid workers first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Learning with Unite
Union-organised learning is a great way to recruit new members and highlight the benefits of being in a union – that was the message that came out of Community Learning Day in Bristol this week….Read more…
Undercover police spied on rail union activists
Research by the Blacklist Support Group (BSG) has revealed that an undercover police officer masqueraded as a union activist to spy on members of the rail union RMT. Photographic evidence unearthed…Read more…
Don’t risk the NHS
Today, I and a group of members who all work in the NHS ‘unveiled’ UNISON’s official remain banner, ahead of the EU referendum the week after next. Well I say unveil, but I’m not…Read more…
Unions resolve dispute with Circle
See story by reporter Heather Spurr from “Inside Housing” on agreement by trade unions with Circle
Housing Group.
“One of the largest industrial disputes in the housing association sector has been averted after a landlord compromised on plans to change its employees’ terms and…Read more…
Sands of time – and patience – running out for agreement on global supply chains
As the ILO debates how to improve working conditions in Global Supply Chains, Employers are resisting responsibility for malpractice in those chains and some governments are time wasting The efforts of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to pre…Read more…