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A reminder that the Havana Glasgow Film Festival runs from today until Sunday 12 November.
The festival has a great selection of films and UNISON is associated with the screening of From Ghost Town to Havana at 7.15pm at the CCA, Glasgow, on Friday 10 November. Ghost Town to Havana is a heartbreaking, funny, and inspirational story about mentorship, life, love, murder, kids and baseball inRead more…
New MHI Vestas facility to open at Fawley Wind turbine blade at MHI Vestas. The Danish, MHI Vestas, monopoly will now invest in Fawley, away from the Isle of Wight, into a…Read more…
Celebrations in Russia: Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall, St. Petersburg, November 3, 2017 Part 1 Part 2 Rossiya Concert Hall (Luzhniki), Moscow, November 5, 2017 Part 1 Part 2 AdvertisementsRead more…
Professional Pensions Magazine & website John Gray says the London CIV need a simpler and more representative governance structure
The London CIV (collective investment vehicle) is currently undergoing a much needed governance review a…Read more…
Unite will reassert its determination to ensure that manufacturing continues at the BAE factory in Brough, East Yorkshire, tomorrow (November 9). Representatives of the workforce at the Brough…Read more…
As winter nears, so too does the prospect of paying sky-high energy bills. Despite the government pledging in October to rush through a cap on energy prices, we know now that the cap won’t…Read more…
This bolt from the blue will have left many of the companies’ employees feeling decidedly anxious
The article UNISON will “leave no stone unturned” as it seeks to protect energy jobs…Read more…
Simon Stevens names the first ‘accountable care systems’ Simon Stevens has announced the first eight “accountable care systems”, saying they will be given control of up to £450m in transformation…Read more…
Relentless Tory austerity threatens to plunge a million more children into poverty, a damning new report warns. Experts found the impact of years of Conservative cuts coupled with slashed…Read more…
I don’t think I’ll be giving anything away by saying what the secret was: Stalin was an agent of the tsarist police, the Okhrana, from 1906 until 1912. Isaac Don Levine, who wrote the…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has written to Gavin Williamson MP, the new secretary of state for defence, requesting he intervenes to prevent a multi-million company robbing the wages of…Read more…
Stronger Unions is no longer publishing new content, as we’ve moved the TUC’s new blogs to our main website at www.tuc.org.uk/blogs. Thanks for being a Stronger Unions reader over the years and we…Read more…
Touchstone blog is no longer publishing new content, as we’ve moved the TUC’s new policy blog content to our main website. You can read new blogs from the TUC at www.tuc.org.uk/blogs. Thanks for being a Touchstone blog reader over the years and we hope you will also find our new blogs…Read more…
Giving public service workers a pat on the back isn’t going to put food on their table
The article Former Dynasty star highlights UNISON’s Pay Up Now! campaign first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely says striking train staff are ‘selfish’ people. ISLE of Wight Conservative MP, Bob Seely, has said that striking rail workers are ‘selfish,’ How…Read more…
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and is also the birthday of a certain, Lev Davidovich Bronstein. The Red Army Choir sings the Russian National AnthemRead more…
The health impact of shift working is not well understood. We need more research and better risk assessment to protect workers.
The numbers of staff working shifts is increasing and there has been…Read more…
Unite and GMB have written to the independent directors of Britvic plc and copied to the company calling on them to meet community and workforce representatives and halt the proposed closure of the…Read more…
A chicken processing factory that was closed for a month following reports of poor hygiene practises reopened yesterday (November 6), after working with Unite to improve standards. Bosses at…Read more…
The living wage is about being able to live on what you earn. It should be a simple ask. In fact, in 2017, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it should be a given. Yet every year unions…Read more…