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Colleagues,
Just a brief(ish) post from Warwick University library as I work on my doctoral thesis. I thought I’d write up some personal notes/reflections on what I consider a trade union education pedagogy to look and feel like.
This is partly becau…Read more…
The decision by the European Parliament recently to oppose granting Market Economic Status (MES) to China is very welome. It follows extensive lobbying by Unite and our global union with the US…Read more…
Unite has warned against further budget cuts and redundancies at the crisis hit Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in a letter to MP Maria Miller. The EHRC, set up as in independent…Read more…
Avoiding tax is morally wrong, and pulls vital funds away from public services under pressure – not just at home but around the world. Fighting against tax avoidance is imperative, but it is not a…Read more…
The decision by the European Parliament recently to oppose granting Market Economic Status (MES) to China is very welome. It follows extensive lobbying by Unite and our global union with the US…Read more…
Yesterday evening the official Council AGM took place at the main hall of the Old Stratford Town Hall. It started with local primary school children choir and band. I believe that they played a Soviet Red Army marching song which always goes down…Read more…
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
Government attempts to stop public sector staff paying union subs through payroll check-off were political and wrong, according to the high court
A high court judgment last week against the largest…Read more…
Unite has called on Royal Mail to recognise the ‘invaluable’ role its members have played in delivering today’s (May 19) five per cent increase in profits. Unite wants bosses to make an…Read more…
Unite has welcomed today’s (May 19) decision to award the western isles ferry services contract to CalMac as a victory for the workforce and a “magnificent public service.” The new contract,…Read more…
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launched today (May 19) a new initiative that asks people to help create a vision for what they believe ideal workplaces of the future should be. The initiative,…Read more…
Report finds 83% of organisations failing to comply with sharps regulations
The article UNISON welcomes HSE report on needlesticks first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
The shocking sexism of the last century dramatized in the popular television show Mad Men may not be such a thing of the past after all. Just ask receptionist Nicola Thorp, who last week was…Read more…
Jeremy Corbyn has rightly identified the issues that we’re fighting to eliminate each and every day – massive wage disparity between those at the top and the bottom, poverty pay and insecure work….Read more…
Members of Unite working at Homes and Communities Association (HCA) are striking for fair pay and proper pay negotiations today (May 19). Unite’s 145 members at two locations began a 24 hour…Read more…
19 May 2016
By David Whyte and David Ellis, University of Liverpool
On the eve of a major international anti-corruption summit hosted by the British government, the prime minister, David Cameron,…Read more…
Job vacancies have plummeted by 12 per cent since the start of the year, with a nine per cent drop in April alone, a report from the jobs website Indeed has found. Indeed blamed the looming EU…Read more…
Check out “Another Europe is Possible” for the real leftie case to remain and reform Europe. Read more…
Here is what you can order to pursue pay justice now for local government workers from UNISON’s online catalogue (a topic which we will I hope discuss at Local Government Conference in Brighton next month);
Calling all UNISON members interested in climate change!Come to our next Green Network meeting in Glasgow – this Saturday, 21 May.We have a guest speaker – Jim Densham from Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. Come and find out the latest on tackling global warming and campaigning for a low carbon Scotland.
Tell us what you think we should be doing and/or what you are doing where you are.And join inRead more…