Assistant general secretary stresses the importance of unions
The article ‘If you want to be heard, speak in UNISON’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Assistant general secretary stresses the importance of unions
The article ‘If you want to be heard, speak in UNISON’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Short Cuts Danny Dorling The first English Life Table was based on data collected around the census year of 1841 and gave female life expectancy as 42 and male as 40. By the sixth table, in 1891,…Read more…
Vice-president opens LGBT conference with thanks to delegates for all they’ve achieved
The article LGBT conference opens in Brighton first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Dear Member
I hope you can help out and enjoy these political and social events. Don’t worry if you have never been knocking on doors for Labour. We will explain things and support you at every stage.
Labour in power: what can Labour councils do?Have your say in Newham Labour’s Campaign for…Read more…
“Conference notes that Metropolitan Police statistics show that gun crime in London increased by 42% in 2016/17.
Conference also notes that the same statistics show knife crime in our city jumped by 24% in the same period.
Conference further notes th…Read more…
Pay talks to avert more bus strikes in the north west broke up today (November 17), after the bosses offered an ‘insulting’ one penny extra an hour to the hourly rate, Unite reported. Talks were held…Read more…
Responding to fresh concerns about the future of major construction contractor Carillion, Unite today (November 17) has called for urgent talks. The union which represents around a 1,000 workers at…Read more…
Unite delegates from across UK manufacturing companies will meet in Brighton (November 15) to discuss the future of UK manufacturing along with other key issues such as the chaos created by the…Read more…
Mental health and stress in transport and food workplaces are right at the top of our agenda. Pressure to win contracts through undercutting in the relentless “race to the bottom” translates into…Read more…
Buffoonery and horseplay … crude characterisation and ludicrously improbable situations. Does the definition of “farce” put you in mind of anything? But the farce that is this Tory…Read more…
Freelance journalists in Belgium can have their work paid as 50 % ‘author’s rights’ and 50 % for ‘fees’, since 1 July 2017.
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Earlier this month we saw the publication of Understanding Society’s Insights 2017 report, which includes new evidence on low pay and work using findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study….Read more…
Government plans to reform social care will fall short and won’t get to grips with the huge problems affecting the sector, if the work to shape next year’s green paper fails to involve the views of…Read more…
UNISON survey launched to find out what school meals staff have to say
The article School meals – tell us your story first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
The council is backing UNISON’s campaigns on ending the public sector pay cap and promoting dignity in social care
The article UNISON welcomes Liverpool City Council commitments to fair pay first…Read more…
– O’Neill Sinn Fein Newsroom 12 November, 2017 There can only be an agreement to restore the Stormont institutions if the DUP and British Government are prepared to uphold rights and…Read more…
Sertan Sanderson With 23 of the EU’s current 28 member states joining the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), there seems to be a great deal of consensus among member states but a few…Read more…
Unite shop floor leaders gathered in Brighton this week to consider the remarkable democratic working-class organisation we have built together. These conferences are a cornerstone of our…Read more…
Brexit loomed large at this year’s industrial sector conferences, with delegates expressing concerns at the Tories’ lack of a negotiating position and the risk of damage to jobs and the economy if no…Read more…
I hope this motion will go to the UNISON Community conference next year.
“This conference notes
1. A Chief Executive of a Large Housing Association recently remarked at a meeting that many of the workers and their f…Read more…