As part of Black History Month, Mary Folashade Onafalujo shares her personal journey, from arriving in the UK to being a national officer at UNISON
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UNISON wins over £1.7m for members in a single month
“Almost 200 victories in a month shows the value of the union’s personal injury legal assistance scheme, which is free to use, win or lose
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea hailed “an incredible achievement for our members”, as almost 20…Read more…
The importance of having lateral flow tests
Dear John Gray
Test date: 23 October 2021Your coronavirus lateral flow test result is negative. It’s likely you are not infectious. But a negative test is not a guarantee, and there’s still a chance you may be infectious.Keep following corona…Read more…
Education unions call for urgent action on climate change crisis
School estates must be sustainable and curriculum must change
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Beer, Darts, Curry, Beer
off messageBack from a good night out in London West End. Played my first game of darts in a wonderful pub for God knowns how long? Great Punjab meal. Pubs and restaurants appear quiet and safe.
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Street Surgery in West Ham 21.10.21
Out campaigning with my West Ham Ward colleague, Cllr John Whitworth, who has mastered the Labour doorstep app on his phone. Another very positive response for Labour. We will be chasing highways about weeds on footways!
Making legal history, every month
Shantha David is the first Black or Asian woman to head a legal services team – not just the first at UNISON, but the first anywhere in the UK
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‘It is time to change democracy’
Unite has voted to back proportional representation for Westminster elections. The decision was taken at the Unite Policy Conference in Liverpool which closed today, October 22, after a week of Unite…Read more…
Union recognition win
Unite has negotiated a recognition agreement for its members working at the Cambridge headquarters of TWI, a global leader in technology engineering. The agreement will allow the union’s growing…Read more…
Unite ‘ready for relentless campaign’ against Stagecoach
More than 800 drivers, engineers, cleaners, supervisors and managers at Stagecoach North East have voted overwhelmingly to hold 12 days of strike action over the management’s ‘divide-and-rule’…Read more…
‘Fire and rehire’ bill blocked but Unite battles on
Labour Mp Barry Gardiner’s Bill on’ fire and rehire’ was today (October 22) blocked by the government after Tory MPs were instructed to oppose the bill, which would make ‘fire…Read more…
‘Absolute zero tolerance on racism’
Unite members from across the UK took part today (October 22) in Wear Red Day – the educational charity Show Racism the Red Card’s (SRtRC) national day of action. The charity has called on all of its…Read more…
Take a break
In a nationwide driver action set for November 1, Unite has called for sector bargaining to bring order to chaos in the lorry driver industry. The country’s leading union for HGV drivers has…Read more…
‘We expect the government to act responsibly’
Responding to the government’s announcement that it would not press ahead with ‘plan B’ even in the face of sharply rising coronavirus cases, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham…Read more…
‘Fighting for jobs, pay and conditions’
In her closing remarks to Unite policy conference on Friday (October 22) Unite general secretary Sharon Graham heralded the huge success of the week’s debates and discussions and issued a call to…Read more…
Urgent action needed to fix care staffing, says UNISON
Pay hike and total overhaul required
The article Urgent action needed to fix care staffing, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
New deal for working people
Labour MP and former shadow employment rights secretary Andy McDonald addressed Unite’s policy conference on Wednesday (October 20) calling for a new deal for working people. McDonald thanked Unite’s…Read more…
Unite bus wins
Unite has celebrated a number of bus dispute victories resulting in significantly improved pay offers after members stood together and threatened strike action. Dozens of bus drivers and cleaners…Read more…
Care sector pushed to brink by staffing catastrophe
Care employees have been undervalued and ignored for too long.
The article Care sector pushed to brink by staffing catastrophe first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Newham Council Pension Committee (& we are shortlisted for “Best Climate Change Strategy” award)
Great to be back tonight in the Newham Council Chamber in East Ham Town Hall for a meeting. Some interesting statistics from the agenda which included our draft annual report on the pension fund.
There are 29,122 scheme members53 different emplo…Read more…