Last week, Venezuela’s right-wing opposition launched a new campaign to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power, including by calling for his immediate resignation. The last campaign to oust the…Read more…
The Letting Agencies rip-off
“The problems of high cost and poor standards are not confined to a few “rogue” agencies but are widespread across the industry. Many of the complaints we and other organisations have heard do not only relate to egregiously poor practice by a minority of agencies, but are widespread, and related to…Read more…
LOBOs are a National Scandal
Last week there was extensive coverage in the Standard and Independent on the UK LOBOs scandal. I have posted before on LOBOs (see labels)
Yesterday the Independent published a new report that John Mann MP and Chair of select committee, Clive Betts MP…Read more…
The UK economy is £140bn smaller than the Chancellor planned, says the TUC
The UK economy is £140bn smaller than the government predicted in 2010, according to new analysis published today (Sunday) by the TUC in its Budget statement. The analysis shows that the economy has…Read more…
Private Eye, EU referendums and the Role of Coincidence
Chance and coincidence can be a bit weird and unsettling but you have to accept that it just happens from time to time.
This morning in Newham, by chance I spotted a bundle of papers including musical scores dumped next to a communal recycling b…Read more…
March Scotland in UNISON out now
Council job cuts: Yes it is thousands; Fundamental review of council funding needed; Winning no compulsory redundancy pledges;£1m won for personal injuries; Keeping up the fight against the Anti-Union Bill; COMMUNICATIONS AWARDS 2016 Standard of entries ‘absolutely tremendous’; Changing everything – climate film and more; Young members launch award winning anti-bullying guide; UNISON’s RazaRead more…
Don’t let the curtain fall on English National Opera. Support the striking singers
The professional singers who make up the Chorus of the English National Opera are starting a campaign of industrial action today. They’re protesting drastic plans by ENO management to cut jobs…Read more…
Everyone wins with greater energy efficiency, says UNISON
Commenting on the report published today (Saturday) by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “Rather than sit on the sidelines and watch as jobs…Read more…
“Death of the Race Equality Movement”: Community Conference 2016
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‘No pay, no way’
A consultative ballot of Unite members working for Hertel, the global industrial services company, on the Conoco Philips oil refinery site on Teesside is on the cards after the company’s zero…Read more…
Justice result
The benefits of being a union member may not be immediately obvious, but for many, it’s nothing short of life-changing. For one Unite member an accident in work meant that he would no longer…Read more…
Stormont jobs plea
Unite and other unions are calling for ministerial intervention at Stormont after Belfast engineering giant Harland and Wolff announced sixty job losses. The company is blaming the move –…Read more…
Actions, not words plea
Unite steelworkers in Wales took their fight to save steel at the Welsh Conservative spring conference today (March 11). Dozens descended to demonstrate against the UK government’s continued…Read more…
The unequal impact of the mental health crisis
Mental health problems will affect one person in four: a statistic repeatedly quoted these days. There are other numbers. People disabled by mental ill health have only a 20% employment rate in contrast to an overall disability employment rate of just …Read more…
A ‘fishy’ business?
The UK’s leading supplier of chilled fish has been accused of paying for the new ‘national living wage’ by slashing overtime rates. Unite believes Grimsby-based firm – Icelandic…Read more…
For fairness and progress
Unite has described Sadiq Khan’s manifesto setting out his London Mayoral bid as a “programme of fairness” which will be welcomed by millions in the capital. Labour’s candidate has put…Read more…
A million new jobs for disabled people on the road to full employment?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer wants the UK to achieve full employment by creating more than two million new jobs by 2020. The Resolution Foundation, in its welcome new report, “The road to full employment: what the journey looks like and how to make progress”, sets out how to achieve this by…Read more…
A boss’s ‘flexible friend’?
The number of people whose main job is on a zero hours contract may well soar to 1m by the end of the year if current trends continue, according to the latest figures released on Wednesday (March 9)….Read more…
Will area reviews fix the skills gap?
Janet Clark is an education policy adviser at ATL The government recently published the latest guidance for the Review of Post-16 Education and Training (known as the area reviews). At 60 pages…Read more…
Refugees Welcome demo: Saturday 19 March in London
Our Branch is supporting the Refugees Welcome demo in London, Saturday 19 March.
Stand Up to Racism!
Brighton People’s Assembly is running a coach to London for the Stand Up To Racism demonstration…Read more…