Yesterday (Friday) I got “pinged” on my NHS Covid-19 “Track & Trace App”. As did a colleague who I had lunch with last Saturday. I felt fine except I hadn’t been sleeping that well since Wednesday. I had taken a Lateral Flow test on Thursday which …Read more…
Review: Ship of Fate: The Story of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, by Roger Moorhouse
What was the greatest maritime disaster in history? The Titanic? Not even close. It was the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10,000 people on board — some 9,000 of whom died in…Read more…
Unite joins call for migrant worker protections in Qatar
On International Migrants Day, construction workers and footballers have come together to demand that the human rights of migrant workers in Qatar are respected and promoted. The Building and Wood…Read more…
Debt advice cuts suspended after Unite campaign
Moves to halve the funding for face-to-face debt advice services across England have been suspended after a campaign by Unite.
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UNISON Regional Labour Link Committee – Leonie Copper AM & Abena Oppong-Asare MP guest speakers
Today I chaired our virtual Greater London UNISON Labour Link Committee (which represents UNISON members who have chosen to affiliate to the Labour Party in London).
AS well as discussing budgets, work plans and campaigning for next …Read more…
Scots Covid hospitality support ‘drop in ocean’
Unite has welcomed the Scottish government’s ‘more more’ proactive approach to supporting the Covid-hit hospitality industry but said the £66 million in support for business will not stop mass job…Read more…
Private equity, labour rights and the new corporate debt economy (part 2)
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Review: Lucky, by Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold is a terrific writer and this book proves it. A memoir of her rape at a time when she was a young student at Syracuse University, it begins with a harrowing and honest…Read more…
Interview: TUC’s Frances O’Grady On Omicron, Furlough, Wages, Pay & Internationalism
This is a long read – but we are am sure that for many readers the issues under discussion are of sufficient interest to warrant the length. When I spoke this week to Frances O’Grady, the leader of…Read more…
Interview: TUC’s Frances O’Grady On Omicron, Furlough, Wages, Pay & Internationalism
This is a long read – but we are am sure that for many readers the issues under discussion are of sufficient interest to warrant the length. When I spoke this week to Frances O’Grady, the leader of…Read more…
“How not to handle a flexible working request”
Check out this article on how in King v Tesco our largest supermarket in the UK messed up a request by one of its employees for flexible working. It is an important but tricky subject so make sure you join a union (UNISON of course if you work in publi…Read more…
Private equity, labour rights and the new corporate debt economy (part 1)
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Trade unions views on ‘unnecessary’ legislation dismissed by Govt
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South Yorkshire bus strikes on cards
Fresh bus strikes will hit South Yorkshire in January after Stagecoach refused to offer a ‘reasonable’ pay deal to staff, Unite said on Wednesday (December 15). More than 560 bus workers are involved…Read more…
Economic forecasters in strike vote
Economic forecasters at the NIESR (National Institute for Social and Economic Research) are predicting a high probability of strike action at the leading think tank in a dispute over inflation. The…Read more…
Nottingham bus strikes threat
Bus drivers at council-owned Nottingham City Transport (NCT) are being consulted over strike action after they rejected a ‘subpar’ pay offer, Unite, the UK’s leading, union said today (December 16)….Read more…
Below inflation pay rises are a wage cut
Sharon Graham says below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham says the union will continue to base claims on the RPI…Read more…
Biomedical scientists strike latest
Bosses at East Lancashire NHS Trust must shoulder the blame for a new 12 week strike which started on Wednesday (December 15). Blackburn and Burnley biomedical scientists restarted strike action on…Read more…
‘They should spend a day in our shoes’
When the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit went into effect in October, the Tory MPs who pushed it through thought that was the end of it – that they could, with the stroke of a pen, consign…Read more…
‘Bring back furlough at 100% now’
As Unite Hospitality reps and front line workers in the hospitality, tourism and events industries, we are facing yet another unnecessary period of uncertainty that mirrors the start of the pandemic…Read more…