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UNISON Scotland is showing our colours by supporting
the Stop
Climate Chaos Scotland Climate March on Saturday 28 November.
On that weekend around the world, millions will be
marching to put pressure on world leaders for an ambitious deal at the UN
climate negotiations in Paris in December.
Scotland’s Climate March is in Edinburgh, with
other marches taking place in Wales onRead more…
The UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) has voted to nominate Dave Prentis in the election for UNISON General Secretary.
Dave got 32 votes to 16 for leading left challenger John Burgess, 4 for Roger Bannister, 1 for Hayley Garner and 1 abstention. The NEC has 65 members in total.
Whilst the…Read more…
Join UNISON’s search for the unsung heroes of our schools
The article Stars in our schools first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Every day seems to bring a new media-generated hoo-ha about what Jeremy Corbyn may or may not have said. As Owen Jones warns, we’d better get used to it. The vast armoury of the Tory press is trained…Read more…
Earning below the living wage is the norm for part-time women workers in more than 130 parliamentary constituencies, according to new research carried out by the TUC to mark Part-time Equal Pay Day….Read more…
Two weeks ago, I went on a holiday walk from the North Wales market town of Ruthin to the top of the nearby Clwydian hill range, Moel Famau, and then back down to Ruthin. At the summit is the remains of a monument to the 50th Jubilee of King George the…Read more…
Union accuses PM of playing politics with schools in pursuit of his own ideological agendaRead more…
The TUC has an excellent website with all the info you need about the Trade Union Bill. This is regularly updated with information about the Bill and also contains links to the online petition. The Trade Union Bill is the biggest … Continue reading →Read more…
Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury held on suspicion of working on behalf of terroristsRead more…
TUC says women will continue to bear the brunt of in-work poverty unless better opportunities are created and wages are increasedRead more…
The Financial Times reported last night that David Cameron had dropped plans to demand widespread exemptions from European Union workplace rights. The TUC has been warning that those demands were on his agenda for months (often pooh-poohed by ‘experts’), and we have been arguing that…Read more…
The Scottish Government’s final programme for this parliament is a modest affair in terms of legislation, while seeking to address administratively some recent criticisms of its performance in…Read more…
Over 100 organisations have appealed to the Prime Minister over the Chancellor’s plans to cut support for the solar power industry. The government, strangely shy about the employment impact of hazarding a £33bn industry. All DECC will admit to in its consultation paper is: “There is likely…Read more…
The Chinese stock market bubble has burst and China has had its own “Black Monday” (on 23 August). Its economic growth is slowing down and the after effects of the turmoil in its stock market and…Read more…
On Friday (August 28) a group of young activists gathered outside trendy bars and restaurants on Glasgow’s Ashton Lane to protest at a multi-million pound chain paying staff below the living wage. …Read more…
Plans by the government to penalise businesses which fail to pay the national minimum way and the living wage have drawn a sceptical response from Unite. Britain’s largest union has warned it…Read more…
This fund raiser hosted by Kevin Maguire (“Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror & TV pundit”) will take place tomorrow – Wednesday 2 September.
From 6.30pm at “The Parcel Yard, Kings Cross Station, London, N1 9AL.”
Tickets £5 each. Read more…
Unite has firmly rejected government proposals to cap the amount in tips restaurants can deduct from waiting staff. The union — which has led a campaign for tipping fairness…Read more…
In today’s Scotsman, UNISON’s Dave Watson contrasts the industrial relations culture in Scotland with the latest Tory attack on trade unions in the Trade Union Bill.He gives a short history of how this different culture has developed since devolution, particularly in the public sector – the main target of the Bill. He also makes the case for the type of workplace democracy the Tories want toRead more…
Can you give your comments to the trade union bill consultation?Read more…