The Government has decided that ‘taking back control’ of the UK’s borders is more important than anything else, more important in particular than working people’s jobs and living standards. Even if immigration numbers don’t actually come down as a result, the…Read more…
Unite urges members to sound the alarm if jobs threatened by #Brexit
Unite has launched a new website to make sure its members are kept informed about what’s happening about Brexit, an online resource dedicated to bringing the news, views, facts and analysis on…Read more…
Women pension losers to lobby MPs on International Women’s Day, says UNISON
Women born in the 1950s who lost out on their state pension when the government made retirement age 65 for both men and women are lobbying MPs later today (Wednesday). The changes introduced in 1995…Read more…
OPINION: Community Links life-president Kevin Jenkins wonders how Newham can maintain services on a council tax freeze
This article was in last weeks local Newspaper, the “Newham Recorder”. I have had no contact with Kevin about this but it would appear that this highly respected former senior Councillor shares some of my my concerns about the recent budget.
“On…Read more…
International Women’s Day 2017
Joining a trade union … is the best way to achieve decent pay rises and pay transparencyRead more…
International Women’s Day: 50-50 by 2030
Today (8 March) is International Women’s Day (#IWD2017) and the UN’s chosen theme for this year focusses on ‘Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030’. This theme chimes well with the values of the TUC and our sister trade unions around the world who will be joining the global…Read more…
Positive about the future
When 20-year-old Liam McBerney catches up with his old school friends the talk inevitably turns to the future. What becomes apparent, says Liam, is that today’s uncertain and changeable economy is a…Read more…
Blog: A rapid rise in the number of apprentices is on the way
With significant changes on the way, this week is a great opportunity to speak to UNISON members, employers and apprentices and recruit apprentices into UNISON. A rapid rise in the number of…Read more…
Unite boosting pay
Unite, the foremost experts on negotiating pay in London and the East of England, have launched a blueprint for boosting workers’ pay amid rising inflation and slow pay growth in 2017. Unite…Read more…
‘Shocking’ failings
Unite has instructed its lawyers to investigate and look into legal actions against Bromley council and individual Bromley councillors for failings in their statutory duties to protect the people of…Read more…
Interpreters’ ‘race to the bottom’
Justice secretary Liz Truss has been urged to review how vital interpreter contracts are awarded and how they operate, following reports that Pearl Linguistics has gone into liquidation. Unite…Read more…
The crisis that can’t be contained
The omens ahead of tomorrow’s Budget are not good. Last week the business select committee warned that the much-heralded industrial strategy was welcome in intent but absent of strategy….Read more…
‘Incredible support’
Bus workers striking against low pay, poor industrial relations and anti-union actions by their employer, Oxford Bus Company, were joined on Monday (March 6) on the picket line by Unite general…Read more…
‘The forgotten cousin’
Local authorities are ‘the forgotten cousins’ of public expenditure, as the financial crisis facing social care gathers pace, Unite has said. Unite, which has 80,000 members in local…Read more…
And the fight goes on…
It’s been more than a century since International Women’s Day was first proposed, but the pressing need for a day for women to voice their demands in their struggle for equality has hardly…Read more…
‘Sixty billion pound’ man
Chancellor Philip Hammond will set aside £60bn in preparation for a Brexit crisis in tomorrow’s Budget, but will not spend any extra cash to alleviate the meltdown of the UK’s health services. …Read more…
Time to pay NHS staff for unpaid overtime, says UNISON
Commenting on the annual staff survey published today (Tuesday) by NHS England, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “There are simply too few staff to cope with the growing demands being…Read more…
‘This union fears no one’
Crowding into Unite’s Holborn office conference room for the migrant workers’ conference on February 22, I was struck by the energy and positive vibes just beaming off every single soul in there –…Read more…
Four tests of whether the Budget delivers for working people
As she started her campaign to be Prime Minister, Theresa May promised to put the power of government in the service of working people. So far, there’s little sign that the Chancellor has got the message, with his pre-budget interviews focusing on ‘fiscal discipline’ at the same time as pressing…Read more…
Apprenticeship levy – keeping it local
With an ageing public sector workforce, we should be encouraging apprenticeships by passing the funding from the Apprenticeship Levy onto those public service employers who deliver quality…Read more…