Porters taking action over management plans for 12-hour shifts appeal for donations to hardship fund
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Porters taking action over management plans for 12-hour shifts appeal for donations to hardship fund
The article Exeter hospital porters appeal for support first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Are you ready for this week’s Save Our local Services campaign day, celebrating and defending our library service?
The article Join UNISON on SOS Day and fight back against library cuts first…Read more…
The branch has vacancies on its Executive Committee for the following officer posts: Equality Officer Youth Officer (must be aged under 27) Membership & Recruitment Secretary Welfare Secretary LGBT Officer – male job share Education Secretary International Relations Officer Workplace…Read more…
Definitely off message but today Gill and I went for a linear walk from White Notley station to Witham station (Essex). It was a walk in an old booklet I found on my shelf called “Off the Beaten Track – 20 Rambles in Rural Essex” by Great Eastern Railw…Read more…
Got email last night from London Region”Dear candidate,Many thanks for attending your interview last weekend. I am pleased to inform you that the assessment team have recommended that you be included on the longlist of candidates and able to seek selec…Read more…
PROGRAMME OF THE DAY Black History Month 2017
9:30 Coffee and Registration
10:00 Welcome and Introductions – Stephanie Thomas
10:20 Margaret Greer – National Black members Officer
11:00 Alim Kamara – Entertainment (Story Story activity )
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Johnesia…Read more…
New survey reveals danger for staff in the charity and voluntary sector
The article Violence towards staff in charities and housing associations must end first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
As news surfaced this week (October 11) that US president Donald Trump is set to make his first official visit to the UK early next year, author, designer and illustrator Mike Dicks wants Britons to…Read more…
Unite will be staging a protest outside Bloomberg’s London office on Monday (October 16) calling on the media giant to take action against Seal Security over the theft of wages and its appallingly…Read more…
Over 2,000 bus drivers and engineering staff working for Arriva North West across 11 depots are set to stage a series of one day stoppages starting Thursday, October 19, in a dispute over below…Read more…
Unite urged more MPs to join the dozens who have backed Labour MP Chuka Umunna’s call to strip Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd – a firm implicated in the construction blacklisting scandal – of its contract…Read more…
I have not blogged much about local Labour Party matters for the past couple of weeks.
And I won’t now.
I just want to reflect on my experience of saying something online, which I said in good faith, but which turned out to have been ill advised and t…Read more…
Pensions for many have improved over the years but we are now in danger of going backwards not
forwards. See article below from TUC’s Tim Sharp
“Workplace pensions work: three lessons from today’s ONS stats (8 August 17)
More older workers retiring today benefit from decent workplace…Read more…
Doctors in training who agree to start their careers in coastal and rural areas – where recruiting GPs has been particularly tough – will receive a one-off £20,000 payment in plans announced today…Read more…
UNISON general secretary speaks at union’s police and justice service group conference
The article ‘Now is the time to win for our members’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Chancellor Philip Hammond confirmed the Brexit negotiations are moving at a snail’s pace that may result in the UK crashing out of the EU, in revealing evidence to the Treasury committee yesterday…Read more…
Picture from the balcony of East Thames (now L&Q) Housing headquarters in Stratford, Newham, London before a UNISON branch meeting. A stunning view of the Stratford & East London skyline including the Olympic Stadium, docklands and all the rece…Read more…
Unite deputy convenor at Bombardier Dougie Jamison lives right beside the factory where he works – a proud bulwark of highly skilled jobs and good wages in an area of Belfast otherwise blighted by…Read more…
A courier working for Hermes was punished after having to leave work when his pregnant partner was rushed to hospital after suffering complications, MPs heard yesterday (October 10) in a select…Read more…
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that the NHS pay cap will be scrapped but has not said if pay awards will be in line with inflation. The public sector pay cap has been in place for…Read more…