Unions challenge universities to improve pay that has ‘significantly fallen behind inflation’
The article Higher education unions submit 2017-18 pay claim first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
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Unions challenge universities to improve pay that has ‘significantly fallen behind inflation’
The article Higher education unions submit 2017-18 pay claim first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
24 March 2017
By Ralph Darlington, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Salford
When 67 industrial relations academics based in Business Schools from across the UK recently signed…Read more…
Social workers are struggling with heavy caseloads, working longer hours and going without lunch breaks, according to a survey by UNISON and Community Care magazine. Nearly half (48%) of respondents…Read more…
With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, many of us will be trying to find the perfect gift for our hard-working mums or mother figures. Flowers, chocolates and perfume normally fit the bill. But if Ministers were thinking about really rewarding working mums this Mothering Sunday, then they might…Read more…
This should be an interesting introduction for local Party activists but I am worried that ordinary members may attend in the expectation that they will have at least a chance to be selected as a Labour candidate. I am concerned that there is simply no…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined biomedical scientists in Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust yesterday (March 22) on the third day of a week-long strike over patient safety. The scientists,…Read more…
Unite has expressed anger over plans by RBS Group to cut even more branches across the UK as it renewed calls for a moritorium on branch closures. The bank, majority owned by the UK…Read more…
Angry workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are striking today (March 23) in their long-running pensions’ dispute, with another seven days of strikes on the cards. …Read more…
Two Danish-owned construction firms are exploiting migrant workers by employing them for 61% less pay than UK industry agreements.Read more…
An agreement securing current freedoms for UK airlines to fly in Europe and beyond must be reached urgently during Brexit negotiations to ease job fears and end uncertainty in the industry, Unite…Read more…
Unite in Action to Defend the Rights of All Statement of RCPB(ML), March 22, 2017 RCPB(ML) sends its condolences to the families and friends of those killed and injured today on and near Westminster…Read more…
BMW workers at the home of the Mini in Cowley will be staging a second protest tomorrow (March 24) over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension scheme. Tomorrow’s protest from…Read more…
The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) – first formed after the 1989 Deal Barracks bomb attack over concerns that private security were not properly trained to guard MoD sites – is now under…Read more…
The latest record UK car production figures strongly reinforce the case that prime minister Theresa May needs to negotiate access to the European single market for the industry and membership of the…Read more…
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will be updating Unite shop stewards at Vauxhall’s Luton plant on the current situation of the automaker’s sale to PSA when he visits the plant tomorrow (March…Read more…
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the those killed in Westminster yesterday, those injured by this barbaric act, and their families, friends and loved ones. At times like these when those who wish…Read more…
I was supposed to have gone to the House of Commons this morning for a pension briefing but had to cancel due to a last minute clash. I also had a long telephone conversation at lunchtime with an MP who was driving into Parliament to vote. Many of my f…Read more…
A huge push from the World Cup 2022 hosts has failed to convince the International Labour Organisation (ILO) that it has done enough to protect workers from serious abuse. In our campaign film, Foul…Read more…
Whatever way you look at it, this week’s inflation figures illustrate the threat to living standards that result from the fall in sterling after the referendum. Headline inflation in February rose to 2.3%. Last week’s average earnings data for January (regular pay) was 2.3%. Real earnings growth is…Read more…
The benefits system needs to be reshaped to better aid older workers is an important conclusion of the Cridland review of state pension age to be published later today. The full report will be published later this morning, so we only have the briefest details. And, to be clear, the TUC doesn’t…Read more…