Threatened cuts to pay for teaching assistants in the North East have been condemned by UNISON. Staff in Durham schools could lose up to £5,000 a year under council proposals to introduce term-time…Read more…
There must be no snap decision over bombing Syria, says UNISON
UNISON has today (Friday) urged MPs not to make any snap decisions involving the UK in action over Syria.
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Whatever happens, this cannot be the end for carbon capture in the UK
This week saw the UK’s darkest day so far for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). At the CCSA, we and our members in the industry are still in shock. The same words keep repeating themselves; devastated, sad, bewildered. The question; Why? And why now? Amazingly, two days on the silence from…Read more…
One week left to Vote for Dave Prentis as UNISON General Secretary
Picture of long standing East End Housing Caretaker and UNISON Steward, Peter Sambrook (middle) with 2 colleagues reminding members that only a week left to vote for Dave Prentis as General Secretary.
The ballot closes next Friday 4 December 2015. “Da…Read more…
UNISON survey shows scrapping of student nurse bursaries will lead to major shortages
A UNISON survey shows that nine in ten (91 per cent) student nurses would not have applied for the nursing degree without access to the bursary which the government intends to scrap in 2017.
The…Read more…
UNISON reacts to London Ambulance Service being placed into special measures
UNISON has reacted to London Ambulance Service being placed into special measures.
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How legal challenges and green workplaces can tackle climate change
Canada is tapping the expertise of UK unions in a project that will put unions at the heart of efforts to green workplaces. Earlier this month, I was invited to spend a weekend in Toronto to share my UK experiences with a Canadian green workplace proje…Read more…
Why no fanfare to the end of workfare?
Compulsory unpaid work experience (‘workfare’) has long and rightly been criticised by by the TUC and others. Yet it now looks like the government may be planning to quietly end it. Buried in the Comprehensive Spending Review document, on page 89 to be precise, is this little nugget:…Read more…
Defending manufacturing from Chinese dumping: #SaveOurSteel
Today, Trade Ministers from across the EU will gather in Brussels to discuss the threat posed to manufacturing by the dumping of products like steel and tyres on Europe by the Chinese. As part of the #SaveOurSteel campaign, the TUC has urged UK Trade Minister Lord Maude to reverse the…Read more…
West Ham Labour Party Christmas Quiz & Social
The highlight of the West Ham Labour movement family year. Read more…
Report from UNITE sector conference, November 2015
The conferences were organised over three days, with services sectors on Monday, manufacturing sectors on Tuesday, and transport sectors on Wednesday. The Graphical, Paper, Media & IT (GPM&IT) conference was on Tuesday. This report covers the p…Read more…
Leeds People’s March for Climate Justice, Jobs and Hope – Saturday 28 November 2015 – 13:00 – Leeds Minster, Kirkgate.
Leeds Trades Union Council encourages all trade unionists to attend the Leeds People’s March for Climate Justice, Jobs and Hope on Saturday 28 November 2015 at Leeds Minster, Kirkgate…Read more…
No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here
The St Andrew’s Day Anti-Racism March and Rally this year has the theme ‘No Racism: Refugees Welcome Here.’ The rally will take place on Sat 28th Nov, Assemble 10:30am Glasgow Green. Below is a…Read more…
Russian and Turkish unions call for workers’ solidarity against war
DİSK in Turkey and KTR in Russia launch joint statement calling for solidarity and condemning war.Read more…
Unions condemn murder of Palestinian taxi driver
A Palestinian taxi driver was shot dead after a minor traffic incident with an Israeli settler.Read more…
Osborne’s new (very modest) ‘Keynesian’ clothes
Paul Johnson of the IFS has rightly put a stop to the idea that the Spending Review (SR) signalled the end of austerity. But in a very modest way this event continued a ‘Keynesian’* turn. Yesterday I set out the accounting logic (here); the underlying macroeconomic logic could easily be regarded as…Read more…
Next step towards low-carbon UK requires 57% emissions reduction by 2030
As the Prime Minister heads off to Paris for the UN talks on climate change, the government’s independent advisers say that “new energy policies” are required to meet the UK’s carbon emissions targets. By the government’s own admission, the UK is 10% over its fourth carbon budget (4CB on our…Read more…
Osborne blinks first
Osborne – with his ‘Caesar’ haircut – stood at the Commons despatch box yesterday with his Labour political opponents in front of him and his Tory political enemies behind him. We all…Read more…
Hunt To Axe Bursaries for Student Nurses
Under the Tories a newly qualified nurse will have £50,000 of debt.
As they axe bursaries and introduce University fees.
This while the NHS is critically short of nurses.
UNISON has long argued that Project 2000 ran the risk of student nurses being treated like other students.
We have always…Read more…
Are young people really just scroungers?
There is a growing rhetoric that young people are lazy, work-shy and have an astonishing sense of entitlement. Such smears have been stated by employers, have saturated the media and are echoed by eminent politicians. For example in 2014 David Cameron said: “I want us to end the idea that aged 18…Read more…