On International Workers’ Memorial Day on Wednesday (April 28), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined bereaved families who lost their loved ones to Covid-19 at the National Covid…Read more…
UNISON NEC Elections: A Voice for Members website
The UNISON NEC election starts next week and our members will receive ballot papers at their home addresses from Tuesday May 4 2021.
All UNISON members will receive multiple ballot papers depending on where they work, their self organised …Read more…
Labour Party Leaders on International Workers Day : May Day 2021
Keir and Angela promise to take on the Tories over Worker’s’ rights. Read more…
A warm greeting to all on May Day
Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to post a brief message to wish all those who take the time to read this blog, a happy May Day. Whilst there is always much to occupy our time and energy in the struggle for decent, safe work, we should remember the many…Read more…
I am (financial) legend
They all stood looking up at him with their white faces. He stared back. And suddenly he thought, I’m the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. Abruptly that realization joined wit…Read more…
We’re voting for change – Letter in Newham Recorder
An excellent letter in the Newham Recorder by former Councillor John Saunders who served under the Committee and Executive Mayor Council and now supports Newham Voting for Change:Under the committee system, the council leader would have to re…Read more…
And they call them heroes: Key workers (please share)
After everything our key workers have been through, they deserve more from this government. Vote for fair pay in the May elections https://unison.org.uk/nobacktonormalRead more…
Government must deliver after years of broken pledges to reform social care, says UNISON
Gavin Edwards says social care should be equal in excellence to the NHS
The article Government must deliver after years of broken pledges to reform social care, says UNISON first appeared on the…Read more…
Has the pandemic revealed a deliberately failing State when it comes to health and safety at work?
The post Has the pandemic revealed a deliberately failing State when it comes to health and safety at work? appeared first on IER.Read more…
‘Being a Unite member will anchor everything I do’
“I see London as a tale of two cities – in some areas there is such immense wealth and in other areas there are queues around the corner for the food bank. How can that be? I don’t believe poverty or…Read more…
“We’ve got the whole picture, we’ve got a plan”
“I got involved in politics in 2010 when the coalition government set about selling off the land registry – which affected us and had an impact on our clients,” says New Zealand born Joy Bassett who…Read more…
Government is responsible for HSE’s “lamentable” pandemic
The post Government is responsible for HSE’s “lamentable” pandemic appeared first on IER.Read more…
Review: The Bomber Mafia, by Malcolm Gladwell
If Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book about cardboard boxes, I would buy it. He could write about paint drying and make it interesting. I think every non-fiction author wants to grow up to be Malcolm…Read more…
‘What Labour can do for the community’
“Where I live we’ve had three Tory councillors for the past three years. Before that it was Lib Dem. We’ve never had a Labour city councillor in this area so I’m hoping to be among the first.
The…Read more…
‘I want to be part of the solution’
As a young person desperately trying to enter the job market at the height of the last major economic crisis, Newport Labour councillor and Unite member Majid Rahman is eager to help young people get…Read more…
May Day Statement From EU Unions
” It is only when the sky is dark that we can see the stars .” Long live the 1st May This sentence, pronounced a few decades ago by Martin Luther King, has not aged a bit. We chose to…Read more…
‘Amazon workers need an independent voice’
Amazon has tripled its profits off the backs of workers who are routinely prevented from having a collective voice in their workplace says Unite. Against a backdrop of reports about poor working…Read more…
Mental health issues surging at work
This time last year I wrote for Left Foot Forward about what a unique survey of over 1000 Unite representatives revealed about the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on workplaces…Read more…
Public ‘firmly against’ fire and rehire tactics
The UK public wants fire and rehire banned, according to a new poll issued ahead of May Day (May 1) by the country’s leading union, Unite. Seven in ten people (70 per cent) say that the…Read more…
West Ham Leaflet & East Ham Canvass for Team Labour: Sadiq, Unmesh, Elly, Bob & Farah
Yesterday was a big day for me. I went (Covid safe) leafleting and door knocking for the first time in over a year. I have really missed such contact with residents.
After the Workers Memorial Day event during the day, in the evening I we…Read more…