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Colleagues,
Many thanks to Trish Lavelle (CWU Head of Education) and CWU colleagues at the union’s magnificent education facility Alvescot Lodge in Oxforshire, for organising and hosting another fantastic BME Leadership Weekend.
Yet again we have been…Read more…
Last night I was sat in a tent for a couple of hours on top of a hill in Tuscany, alongside the current and future Presidents of the European Trade Union Confederation (Ignacio Toxo from…Read more…
Today (4 July) is not only the anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence (arguably the only successful British Revolution) but also the election of the first ever Labour MP, Keir Hardie.
He was elected for West Ham South in 1892. Ph…Read more…
As we await the the assault on working people in the first Tory budget next week, new data points to better ways of supporting the low paid and reducing inequality.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has…Read more…
Our MEPs look set at last to debate and vote later this week on the promised resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the EU and USA. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling on MEPs to vote a…Read more…
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/higher-education-members-vote-to-accept-pay-offer
This story – from our national website – reports the decision of the Higher Education Service Group Executive (SGE) to accept the employers’ pay offer, following a consulta…Read more…
The UNISON political fund representing members who have decided to affiliate to the Labour Party began its annual forum this morning in Manchester.
The forum was opened by Dave Prentis who…Read more…
The UNISON political fund representing members who have decided to affiliate to the Labour Party began its Annual Forum this morning in Manchester.
The forum was opened by Dave Prentis who promised delegates that as long as he is General Secretary, un…Read more…
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New Pensions Minister Ros Altmann has caused a stir with the publication this week of her pre-Election musings about the possible desirability of extending workplace savings beyond pensions. This is a useful and important development because a strategy…Read more…
Dock workers working for Blue Arrow at the Port of Liverpool have agreed to a ground-breaking three-year pay deal that lifts the threat of strike action, Unite announced today (July 3). …Read more…
Paloma Faith’s political warm-up act, Fox News’ “braying jackal” and The Sun’s “camera-chasing Guardian goblin”. Owen Jones provokes many descriptions but for many he is Britain’s leading left-wing…Read more…
I was at the UNISON Labour Link hustings for the UK Labour Leadership today in Manchester. With our focus on the Scottish leadership election’s earlier timetable, this was my first real opportunity…Read more…
Friday 3 July 2015
UNISON Scotland’s Health Committee today welcomed a
breakthrough in the fight against poverty pay with the Scottish
Government agreeing to a review of the lowest pay band.
This development highlights the benefits of
Partnership working which has been the basis of industrial relations
in NHSScotland since 1999 and further enshrinesRead more…
Crushed by bales of hay, trampled by a bull or run over by a reversing tractor – these are just a handful of the gruesome causes of death in farming, the most peril-fraught sector in the economy….Read more…
Save the date!
Branch Summer Social!
7pm on Tuesday 28 July 2015 at the Tempest Inn, right on Brighton seafront.
There will be free drinks for early birds and quality nibbles too. Bring a partner…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (July 3) urged the Chancellor to change gear in order to work with the UK’s unions and their six million plus members to renew the country’s…Read more…
James Wold
3 July 2015
By James Wold, Marquette University Law School
The following article is the first in what we hope to be a series of articles by a colleague from Wisconsin, James Wold. James…Read more…
Danish unions are planning solidarity actions directed at the fiercely anti-union airline Ryanair, which started operating from Copenhagen last March.Read more…
A call for a new asbestos eradication law requiring the safe, planned removal of all the asbestos that still remains in place was made by Unite at a conference in London today (July 3) to mark…Read more…