Dave Prentis answered the requests of branches and employers to visit Yorkshire for a series of meetings this week
The article Prentis visits Yorkshire to meets branches first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
SDGs – the new MDGs
Today (25 September) world leaders from 193 countries will assemble at the United Nations annual General Assembly in New York to adopt 17 Global Goals to end extreme poverty and build a better world…Read more…
Return to the age of secrecy?
The MP’s expenses scandal — one of the biggest stories to break in the past decade — may have been kept a secret to this day, had it not been for the Freedom of Information Act, made into law in…Read more…
Solidarity should be binding
‘Cut him some slack’. ‘Give him a chance’. Just a few of the vox pops of members of the public who are as fed up with the British press in its predictable onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn as I am….Read more…
Together we can win
Click below to see Unite general secretary Len McCluskey discuss racism – and how we can defeat it – in football, at work and in society with Show Racism the Red Card’s former player and manager…Read more…
Housing Associations: Don’t Give in to Right-to-Buy Sell out!
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Solidarity is the only way
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we look at how divide and rule tactics de-humanises immigrants Immigrant ‘swarms’ are…Read more…
No business case
Business secretary Sajid Javid has been urged to ‘bang heads together’ so that the US bosses of Goodyear hold ‘genuine’ consultations over the threat to 330 jobs at its Wolverhampton plant. …Read more…
Get your nominations in for UNISON’s top H&S rep
UNISON is celebrating the sterling work of our health and safety reps with an awards ceremony to highlight what they do
The article Get your nominations in for UNISON’s top H&S rep first…Read more…
Council pension funds would like to go green, but doing so now would cost them dear, says UNISON
Calls from campaigners that the UK’s 101 local government pension funds should stop investing in fossil fuels are admirable, but over-simplify the huge task that disinvestment would mean, says UNISON…Read more…
Tribune Article On Productivity
Staff morale at rock bottom in Scotland’s colleges, says UNISON
A UNISON report from a survey of staff in Scottish colleges, shows real problems caused by funding cuts, the college mergers programme and unaccountable college senior managers – and real concern amongst staff that education services for students are declining. The report Learning the Hard Way is published today (25 September 2015)
Its findings include: over 6 in 10 staff (64%) think collegeRead more…
Camden NSL Parking Wardens Strike
This morning I went to Norwich by train to represent a UNISON member at a hearing then came back into London to attend a HR meeting on employment policies and procedures. On route I came across Camden UNISON members who work for the Parking Contractor …Read more…
Correction and clarification – everyone has always been in agreement about the attack on DOCAS
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Today’s meeting of the Development and Organisation (D&O) Committee of the National Executive Council (NEC) of UNISON received an excellent and informative report reviewing lessons learned to date in switching…Read more…
Rally for Redcar
SSI, Majuba Road car park, Redcar, Teesside TS10 5BJ 18:45 tonight (Thursday 24 September 2015) A rally tonight in Redcar will highlight the crisis in the UK steel industry which is…Read more…
You can’t learn when you are cold, hungry and worried about where you will sleep
In 2014, there were over 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. That is 28% of all UK children – or for those of us in education, 9 children in every class of 30. These shocking…Read more…
Government threat to safety reps – get the message out there!
The TUC is running a major campaign against the Trade Union Bill. I have written on it previously on this site, and there is an excellent article from the TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady in…Read more…
In defence of the Human Rights Act
Abolishing the Human Rights Act would diminish the UK’s standing in the eyes of the world, and Scotland should use every means at its disposal to resist these Tory plans.
I was at yesterday’s…Read more…
Don’t let your capital cut your own throat
Across the world we can see conservative political parties engaged in an attempt to destroy the power of unions in the workplace, weaken their resources and squeeze their financial support reformist political parties. This is a concerted attempt to des…Read more…
Levelling the playing field
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we discuss the findings of Unite’s survey Unite’s recent survey of black,…Read more…