Kettering General Hospital staff struggling under seven years of public sector pay freezes will have to pay £20 a day for parking for fourth months as a new car park is built. The charges were…Read more…
Get to know your neighbours at the Great Get Together
Events will bring people together to show that Jo Cox was right that we have more in common than not
The article Get to know your neighbours at the Great Get Together first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
This is how we can properly protect the health and safety of workers
26 May 2017
By Phil James, Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University; David Walters, Professor of Work Environment at Cardiff University; Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology at the…Read more…
Productivity: the long global view
We’re often told that the key to raising wages is to solve the ‘productivity puzzle’. Output per worker has stagnated since the financial crisis, leading economists to worry that the outlook for the economy is bleak. But a range of evidence across many countries suggests that the fall in…Read more…
Football’s cash cows?
In the first of our new series of features on equal access for sports, Adam Heppell asks are the ticket prices clubs charge their fans good value for money? Football fans everywhere, ask…Read more…
Pause to remember Jo Cox MP – Westhammers at “Arc in the Park”
A lot has happened since Sunday, when UK political parties suspended General Election campaigning for one hour in order to remember murdered young mum and MP, Jo Cox, and to visit community projects. In West Ham we stopped campaigning and visited the “…Read more…
Screen Actors Guild drags video games business into the 21st century
The video game companies need and want our members’ talent …Read more…
Strong and stable economy? Forgotten macroeconomics in the manifesto debate
25 May 2017
By Özlem Onaran, Professor of Economics, Director of Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre, University of Greenwich
Economist Özlem Onaran analyses the expected impact of both…Read more…
Why we are organising a meeting to safeguard the NHS now on the Isle of Wight.
Ken Knapman It would appear that the NHS is on its way to becoming a most significant issue in this election. This why we are organising the meeting in Ryde tomorrow night at the Aspire at 6.30pm….Read more…
Can Theresa May Be Taken At Her Word? The Case Of Worker Directors
25 May 2017
By Gregor Gall, Professor of Industrial Relations, the University of Bradford
The Conservative Party manifesto was launched last Thursday, 18 May. In the first section, entitled ‘A…Read more…
The ‘curse of knowledge’ and what to do about it
Dear Colleagues,
I am in the process of writing-up my doctoral thesis and have taught myself two valuable lessons, primarily as a result of (a) nor being able to maintain a schedule of output and (b) feeling that my writing just isn’t good enough. Wha…Read more…
As real wages fall, household debt is set to reach record highs
This year, household debt is set to be higher than ever before. TUC analysis finds that unsecured debt per household is set to reach £13,900 in 2017. In 2016, unsecured debt per household was already £13,200 – higher than at any other point since the financial crisis and only marginally below…Read more…
Re-elected to UNISON NEC for a 4th term
I was really pleased to get confirmation on Tuesday that I had been re-elected unopposed as the UNISON Community representative on our National Executive Council (General seat) for a 4th two year term of office.
I did think that I had an opponent agai…Read more…
UNISON’s leadership is losing its grip on the National Executive Council
After seven times winning a seat on the UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) against right-wing opposition I chose not to stand in the elections, the results of which were declared yesterday. As I have already observed, I am very happy to stand down undefeated and get on with life – and I am…Read more…
What were the four recommendations to UNISON from the (Assistant) Certification Officer?
The decision of the (Assistant) Certification Officer, issued now online following a lengthy hearing, and including considerable criticism of some conduct associated with the last UNISON General Secretary election (and a declaration that UNISON breache…Read more…
UNISON Certification Officer decision published in full
The decision of the (Assistant) Certification Officer in the recent case involving the UNISON General Secretary election is now available online.
Diligent readers can now decide for yourselves whether my earlier assessment of the implications of the ru…Read more…
What should the political parties be offering whistleblowers at work?
24 May 2017
Dave Lewis, Professor of Employment Law, Middlesex University
Dave Lewis, Professor Employment Law at Middlesex University and a whistleblowing expert looks at what is needed to…Read more…
U.S. Steel Faces Historic Necessity for Change
– K.C. Adams – Ruling oligarchy blocks resolution of economic problems and continues on failed path U.S. Steel considers the amount it does not spend on renewing its productive force as…Read more…
Manchester Bombing – We stand together
Last night I was just about to go to bed when I saw a “breaking news” email on my IPAD about a bombing in Manchester. I spent the next 30 minutes or so on the BBC news website. Then feeling pretty helpless, I went to bed pretty sick and ashamed that fe…Read more…
‘Totally useless measure’
Unite has slammed suggestions that nearly a million zero-hour contract workers be given the “right to request” fixed hours as “useless”. Responding to reports that a government inquiry will…Read more…