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Friday 23 October 2015
UNISON media release, with Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS)
The Westminster Government faces a series of awkward human rights questions following action by the United Nations. The UN has directed the Government to address a ‘list of issues’ ranging from welfare cuts and reliance on food banks to blacklisting and the erosion of trade union rights.
Members of theRead more…
General secretary takes ‘strong message of support’ to Belfast as latest group of health workers begin ballot for action
The article Prentis warns of austerity’s risk to peace in Northern…Read more…
Unison is holding an election to chose who will be General Secretary and lead the union for the next five years. The General Secretary is the most senor role in the union and is the public face of Unison at … Continue reading →Read more…
The government’s announcement of just £6m in new funding to support the steel town of Scunthorpe is ‘woefully inadequate’ and only deals with the symptoms not the causes of the crisis engulfing the…Read more…
Former chancellor Nigel Lawson is the latest among a growing group of senior Tory statesmen who have come out against the government’s plans to slash tax credits next April, which would decimate…Read more…
Excessive workload for social workers is a long-running problem, which has worsened considerably as the cuts bite
The article A great new tool to help social worker members first appeared on the…Read more…
Sounds familiar? If you work in the hospitality industry you can join www.unitetheunion.org – if you earn less than the Living Wage (£9.15ph in London, £7.85 outside) for just £2.10 per week….Read more…
My name is Jenny Edwards and I work as an associate practitioner
The article The Trade Union Bill: Jenny’s story first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Unite members at New Holland agree new offerRead more…
Dave Prentis says government should focus on tax credits and living standards rather than unionsRead more…
Workplaces show their support for Show Racism the Red CardRead more…
TUC says list of 115 employers is only the tip of the icebergRead more…
Friday 23 October 2015
UNISON Scotland is publishing today Violence at Work: A Survey of UNISON employers and Staff in Scotland 2015. It shows an increase of 1,227 assaults compared with 2014.
The total recorded assaults on public sector workers in Scotland in 2015 was 38,279. This compares to 20,000 in 2006.
UNISON report included a survey, to ask what staff had suffered, how they had feltRead more…
“NOMINATION NEWS
A whopping 230 branches have agreed to nominate Dave!
What a fantastic show of support – thank you to each and every one for making this happen.
Eighteen branches have had their nomination forms rejected but they still have until F…Read more…
Not long after the minister Sajid Javid sat down in the Commons, having announced what he was planning to do for our steel industry, one Tata’s UK bosses spoke. The real question the Tata…Read more…
“Our parents were sold the dream of democracy. We’re here for the refund”.Read more…
The Tories have carried out a ‘smash and grab’ raid on the £80m package promised for retraining and supporting sacked Redcar steelworkers and boosting the local economy. It has just emerged that the…Read more…
Like pulling at a loose thread, once the tipping abuse scandal broke it wasn’t long before it all started to unravel for some of the UK’s biggest restaurant chains. Unite’s campaign,…Read more…
The pay dispute at Case New Holland Tractor Ltd in Basildon, Essex has been settled, after the workforce accepted an improved pay offer. The 460-strong hourly paid production workforce,…Read more…