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Your Skills, Your Future – 1 day Course 14 West Campbell Street, Glasgow – 3rd March 9.30am to 4pm
Making the Most of the Internet – 1 day course- Douglas House, Belford Road, Edinburgh – 10th MarchRead more…
I work with people who have memory problems. I’m a community psychiatric nurse so I go to the homes of people who have Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia.
The article ♡ UNISON: the…Read more…
NHS needs top operate as one team in the interests of joined-up, high-quality patient care
The article MPs warned of short-termist threat to NHS support roles first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
There are major changes happening to our pensions, many of which workers are ill equipped to face, and policy is not keeping pace with the challenges ahead.
Today, I was at the TUC pensions…Read more…
Annette is a medical secretary in Scotland who loves that UNISON stands up for the whole NHS
The article ♡ UNISON: it stands up for the whole NHS team first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Union pledges support for initiative to reduce mental health discrimination and support blue-light workers in England
The article UNISON signs emergency services mental heath initiative first…Read more…
Strike action is never taken on a whim – but sometimes it’s the only option when every other avenue has been exhausted.
The article Zero. Nothing. Zilch. That’s not an offer, it’s an…Read more…
World-renowned actor and Ballymena native Liam Neeson has endorsed Unite’s Rally for a Future on Saturday, February 6, when the Ballymena community will band together demanding investment and…Read more…
I spend my days talking to members of the public on the phone, answering their queries on environmental issues, from planning and environmental health to housing repairs like a broken toilet
The…Read more…
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and UNISON in further education colleges in England will be taking strike action on Tuesday 24 February in a row over pay. Staff are angry that the…Read more…
Unite has warned that billion-pound losses announced this week by oil industry super-majors could bring an end to meaningful production in the North Sea within years unless there’s serious…Read more…
Another AGM and another victory for the forces of light and reason in Greater London UNISON yesterday. UNISON delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour of a sensible left slate and reselected the existing Regional Council Officers for another year (incl…Read more…
Hat tip Personnel Today and UNISON Scottish Community sector on Facebook.
“Employers often spend a large amount of time drafting a fair disciplinary policy, but fail to give the same attention to training their staff to put it into practice. …Read more…
The TUC and many others – unions in Britain and across Europe and manufacturing employers – are battling to defend jobs in Europe from unfair competition from China. The impact of underpriced steel flooding the UK market is well-known, but if the EU grants China ‘Market Economy…Read more…
Each year there is a schedule of meetings, intended to ensure key meetings don’t clash with each other. For 2016 the schedule is as follows:
Regional Industrial Sector Committees; Area Activists Committees; Regional Equalities & Regional Labour Pa…Read more…
EDF Energy will become ‘a soft touch’ for electricity theft if it cuts its revenue protection staff by 50 per cent, Unite has warned. EDF Energy is planning 6,000 staff cuts worldwide and, as…Read more…
One would be forgiven for thinking that Google’s recent tax deal with the HMRC, which held the tech giant liable for only £130m over the last decade, must be an anomaly. Surely, the UK’s…Read more…
Calling all UNISON members interested in climate change!
Come to our next Green Network meeting in Glasgow on Saturday 27 February.
Guest speaker Ric Lander, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, will be speaking mainly on pensions disinvestment campaigns, but will be referring also to fracking and other important policy areas.
We will be discussing what is needed now following the UN ParisRead more…
Health and safety rep of the year awards highlight key work of union and our reps
The article ♡ UNISON: recognising the members who keep us all safe first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
I was very pleased to move (very briefly as I still have an impressive cough) a report from National Executive Council (NEC) members to the Annual General Meeting of UNISON’s Greater London Regional Council this morning.
There had been an earlier misunderstanding, in that the report circulated…Read more…