This is one of the most dreadful ideas I have ever heard from this government. It would be far better and far more preferable to scrap the two-child limit altogether. UNISON’s campaign will continue…Read more…
Savaged by an anonymous (dead) sheep?
I was going to blog thanks to those members of Brighton Pavilion Constituency Labour Party (CLP) who attended last night’s Annual General Meeting (at which I was re-elected as Chair) for the comradely conduct of the meeting – but my attention has been …Read more…
Health unions welcome moves on pay but warn against making staff foot the bill
Talks about the much-needed review of the NHS pay structure and the decent wage rise can now begin.
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This is what we do – top 8 brilliant things from 2017
It’s impossible to review UNISON’s year and do justice to all the amazing things UNISON’s activists and members get up to. So, we haven’t tried. Instead here are 8 pretty important, awesome things…Read more…
Brexit secretary tells Parliament & public that industry impact studies do not exist
Unite has said David Davis has “deceived Parliament and the public”, after the Brexit secretary admitted the government has not carried out assessments of the impact of leaving the EU for different…Read more…
UNISON comments on NHS Providers report on winter pressures
Alarming report shows the amount of strain the NHS is under even before winter pressures have kicked in
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All I want for Christmas is #JC4PM
Received this Crimbo card at UNISON NEC from Welsh colleague Mark Fisher @mfish_9. I will steal. Read more…
Bakery dispute settled
Drivers at the Kingsmill bakery in West Bromwich, who deliver 1.5 million loaves each week, have overwhelmingly accepted a revised pay offer and have called off their threatened strike action. …Read more…
Beating back the blacklisters
Unite construction members were among the dozens of trade unionists who descended on Parliament to demand justice for blacklisted workers on today’s (December 6) national day of action. …Read more…
NEC vows to continue pay campaign into union’s silver jubilee year
‘All parts of the union are feeling the strain of the austerity agenda’
The article NEC vows to continue pay campaign into union’s silver jubilee year first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
It’s the pits – Tory beano faces mass protest
Shameless Tories who are planning to hold a party at the National Coal Mining Museum have been warned they will face protests if the event goes ahead. The Dewsbury County Conservative…Read more…
You forced MPs to discuss your pay
Almost 150,000 people signed the petition calling to scrap the public sector pay cap, and as a result, MPs debated the issue in Parliament this week.
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UNISON backs Brexit amendment to save the Good Friday Agreement
The UK government needs to show it is ‘genuinely committed’ to upholding the peace process, says the union
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‘Ye are many, they are few’
Under the Tories economic stagnation became political chaos – and Corbyn’s Labour relit a spark of socialist hope after a decades-long gloom. 2017 will go down as a turning point year. …Read more…
Biofuel jobs threat
Urgent talks are being called for to seek assurances about job security, following the news that Hull-based biofuel producer Vivergo Fuels is to stop production. Unite represents repair and…Read more…
Nurse staffing ‘in peril’
It’s been only the first year since nursing bursaries – which enabled student nurses to pursue their education for free – were scrapped. But now figures show a major drop in university nursing…Read more…
Blacklisting day of action
Members of Unite working in the construction industry will be lobbying Parliament tomorrow (November 6) as part of a nationwide day of action, in the ongoing campaign for justice for blacklisted…Read more…
All burned out?
The entire board of the government’s Social Mobility Commission has resigned in protest over Theresa May’s abject failure to deliver on her promise to address the “burning injustice” of inequality….Read more…
Blacklisting is the new blacklisting
The blacklisting scandal first revealed in 2009, when it was discovered that thousands of construction workers were denied jobs, some for decades, because of trade union involvement, is far from…Read more…