Schools affected across the city as 500 protest outside Council House over imposed changes to contracts
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‘My mum has Alzheimer’s and I have haemophilia’: why homecare matters
Omar Ramadan has severe haemophilia – a disorder that impairs the body’s ability to control blood clotting – and he cares for his mother who has Alzheimer’s.
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I voted Remain – here’s why
Next Thursday voters will be asked to make an historic decision on the UK’s membership of the European Union. I have always had an ambivalent view of the EU and in 1975, with my first ever ballot…Read more…
Extra, extra, read all about it?
Newspaper deliveries to newsagents across the UK could be hit as staff at Menzies Distribution gear up for strike action for the first time ever over a ‘pitiful’ pay offer. Unite warned that…Read more…
‘You are welcome here’
Unite will join trade unions and social justice movements from across Britain in a “Convoy to Calais” on Saturday (June 18), to provide aid and show solidarity with desperate refugees prevented from…Read more…
Ambulance staff deserve better than this
Ambulance staff don’t take action over poor working conditions lightly. They work hard in difficult circumstances and they know the impact industrial action will have. Yet when many have are asked to…Read more…
For our children’s future
With less than a week left until the UK makes a historic decision on the day of the EU referendum on June 23, dozens of trade unions, including Unite, have stood together to make the case for Remain….Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Blue chip finance companies, serviced by Capita, will be hit as nearly 1,000 life and pension workers stage a 24-hour strike today (June 16) in a dispute over ‘poverty pay’. More than 920 life…Read more…
Tooting By Election
UNISON Labour Link “As you will be aware a By-election is taking place in Tooting on Saturday as a result of Sadiq Khan becoming Mayor of London. The majority in the last General Election in Tooting was just 2842 so it is important to turn out th…Read more…
A fragile jobs recovery – not the time for nasty shocks
The latest monthly jobs figures confirm the picture of a cyclical employment recovery that has been strong in some respects but shows worrying signs of running out of pzazz. The last thing we need right now is a vote for years of uncertainty putting a …Read more…
In solidarity
Following the Orlando massacre last week, Unite’s Executive Council has issued the statement below in solidarity with the LGBT community in Orlando and across the USA. Unite expresses…Read more…
Cutting PCSO numbers has a real cost
Research shows investment in PSCO’s saves the justice system £56 for every £10 invested
The article Cutting PCSO numbers has a real cost first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
‘Insulting’ pay inequality
Weymouth bus drivers in Dorset, fed up with being the ‘poor relations’ in the First Group ‘family’, will be going on strike for a week against ‘poverty’ wages. More than 110 drivers, based at…Read more…
Standing up to the “easycouncil”
Our members in Barnet have been at the sharp end, with the council outsourcing anything it can. The spirit shown by our library workers today is a tremendous example to us all – and we will stand by…Read more…
Blacklisters’ public funds bonanza
Companies guilty of blacklisting workers have enjoyed a share in a £1.5bn bonanza of Scottish taxpayers’ money according to Unite. The figure is revealed as Unite Scotland prepares to present…Read more…
Tributes to Gareth Knapman.
Gareth Knapman, 1981-2016 An English Folk-Hero in Leipzig: Gareth James Knapman, born 4th March, 1981, Sandwell Hospital, West Midlands England. Lived at Charlemount Farm, West Bromwich and then…Read more…
Barnet library workers on strike
Dave Prentis takes support and solidarity to north London picket line in strike over plans to outsource library service
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Don’t put UK manufacturing at risk
The country’s biggest manufacturing union Unite welcomed the interventions today (June 15) by some of the UK’s blue chip business as they seek to rally support for the UK to remain in the…Read more…
Blacklist campaigner highlights injustice
Only one person has been prosecuted for their criminal culpability in the blacklisting scandal, with not a single construction director behind the illegal operation having faced charges. However, Ian…Read more…
Jobs and services at risk in Hull
UNISON branch warns about future of services as council seeks voluntary redundancies in face of government cuts
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