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Thank God it’s Friday?
Unite has blasted restaurant chain Fridays for scrapping free meals for low paid staff working 10-hour shifts, often late at night. Fridays claims the move is to “provide more equitable benefits to everyone in our teams”, however Unite accused the profitable company of trying to squeeze already hard-pressed staff for extra cash. UK-based Hostmore group […]
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Blog: Honouring Stephen, Doreen and Neville Lawrence
By challenging the racism that led to Stephen’s death, Doreen and Neville Lawrence challenged an entire society to change and transform itself
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UniteLive stories of the year – ‘From the ground up’
Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today we look back at a comment piece from Claire Peden, Unite organiser and team leader of Unite for a Workers’ Economy about their Feed the Weans campaign wins. — In September last year, hundreds of trade unionists […]
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Voted for John Gray & Denise Thomas for UNISON NEC elections 2023
This morning my UNISON NEC ballot papers arrived at my home address.I opened up the envelope and there was 2x candidate election statements, letter from our General Secretary, Christina McAnea encouraging us to vote, a pre paid return envelope an…Read more…
Recruitment, retention and registration discussed at health conference
UNISON’s health conference finished with debates on a variety of motions with implications on recruitment and retention
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Health conference asks why ambulance staff aren’t an emergency service
Conference debates ambulance and privatisation issues and discusses how to make the union ‘ballot ready’
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Care Quality Commission staff to strike in escalation of pay row, says UNISON
CQC employees started a continuous work to rule on Monday 17 April 2023.
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Institutional racism still remains a challenge at work and in wider society
On the anniversary of Stephen’s death, the sad truth is this: not enough progress has happened to challenge racism in the last 30 years.
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Blog: This is democracy in action
The NEC makes decisions on your behalf and, working collectively, they must put UNISON members’ interests first – please use your vote
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UNISON NEC Elections 2023 – My personal recommendations for all contested seats
1.3 million ballot papers have started to drop at the homes of UNISON members. Please vote in these elections, the future of the union is at stake. We need a NEC that will be a voice for all members, reject division, defeat this Government a…Read more…
GSK workers to strike
Hundreds of workers employed by pharmaceutical giant GSK will stage a series of walkouts throughout May in a dispute over pay. The 750 workers who are members of Unite voted for strike action having rejected the company’s significantly below inflation rate pay offer of a six per cent pay increase and a one off lump […]
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‘No end in sight’ to cost of living crisis
Inflation continues to stay at record highs, according to the latest figures, driven mainly by ongoing hikes in the price of food. The consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation fell marginally from 10.4 per cent in February to 10.1 per cent in March – a smaller drop than analysts expected, with some having predicted […]
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Health workers and activists endure “unrelenting stress”
UNISON health conference is told: “Everyone in this room is carrying the trauma of the last three years”
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Review: The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright
The opening pages of this book by one of America’s greatest writers were a shock both to Richard Wright’s agent and publisher. They were so violent and painful to read that the book could not…Read more…
UNISON NEC elections 2023: Vote for your 4 London Candidates – Eddie, Sonya, Abiola & Anu
Sonya Howard, Eddie Brand, Abiola
Kusoro and Anu Prashar, for the Greater London Region NEC Seats.
The NEC is the most important
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Health conference debates pay
Four motions on pay covering the recent NHS offer, the pay review body, flat rate pay uplifts and a nurses only pay spine, were debated in Bournemouth
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Health conference celebrates union’s re-banding wins
Campaigns on overtime, reducing the working week and protecting the NHS pension were among the other key topics discussed by delegates
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UNISON secures pay win for Canal and River Trust workers
Union secures a 8.2% increase for 1700 workers at the charity
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Real terms pay continues to plummet
The real value of workers’ pay keeps on nosediving, with the latest figures showing the fastest fall in real wages since 2009 as inflation continues to outpace wage rises. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published on Tuesday (April 18) showed that yearly growth in average pay stayed at 6.6 per […]
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