If there has been one topic which has cropped up at every regional and national meeting of UNISON which I have attended in the past couple of weeks it has been the fight being waged by our Haringey Branch for fair pay for home care workers who have bee…Read more…
Fair Funding Review (Isle of Wight): Info:
John Metcalfe’s letter: (Chief Executive: Isle of Wight Council) Click on: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3116764/FairFundingReview-26-09-16.pdfRead more…
#Lab16 Unions together fringe
Picture collage from the packed “unions together” (TULO) fringe last Sunday at the Labour Party Conference. Speakers included Jo Stevens MP who spoke about “Workplace 2020” and Angie Rayner MP, who thanked Unison for her politics.
Labour le…Read more…
Unite ballots Fujitsu Manchester over Pay, Pensions and Job Security
Unite’s industrial action ballot of members in my own workplace has now opened.
There’s an appeal for support leaflet, and you can also follow us on Facebook or Twitter.Read more…
Fujitsu Manchester appeal for support
Unite members from Fujitsu will be joining the People’s Assembly demonstration in Birmingham on Sunday, where they will be distributing…Read more…
Workplace dementia – time for action
More than 40,000 people under the age of 65 have been diagnosed with dementia in the UK, 3,200 of those in Scotland. It is estimated that 18% of them continue to work after a diagnosis and therefore…Read more…
Is the decline of manufacturing really ‘natural evolution’?
According to conventional wisdom, industrial trends follow a natural evolution from agriculture to manufacturing and finally to services. Fascinating long-run data from the ONS (based on employment information from census records since the mid-C19) sug…Read more…
easyJet: Staff breast feeding victory
Expectant mothers and mothers of young children have never had it worse in the workplace – a wide-ranging Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) study published earlier this year found that the…Read more…
No way to treat workers
Irish drinks giant C&C has been accused of behaving with ‘cavalier contempt’ towards its Shepton Mallet Cider Mill workforce, as confusion swirls about the employment prospects of the remaining…Read more…
Decent pay rise call
Chancellor Philip Hammond should use the autumn statement to signal a massive cash injection into the crisis-hit NHS, allowing the independent Pay Review Body to help restore the pay of a…Read more…
Labour and Tory policies– oceans apart
Liverpool looked glorious as we departed Labour’s conference yesterday afternoon (Wednesday September 28). The summer’s hullabaloo was setting as a new, rosy red optimistic spirit descended upon the…Read more…
100 days after the #Brexit vote & we’re still in the dark on workers’ rights
It’s been 100 days since Britain voted to leave the EU, and still we’re no clearer about what Brexit means. In particular, despite Remain and Leave voters agreeing that workers’ rights should be maintained, the Prime Minister has failed to commit to that. The TUC is calling today…Read more…
NHS needs £280m or the government will be breaking minimum wage laws
29 September 2016 Embargo: 00.01hrs Friday 30 September 2016 The government will need to inject £280m into the NHS by the end of the decade, or ministers will find themselves in breach of their own…Read more…
“Education not segregation” – West Ham Labour campaign day
No New Grammars day of action – 11am this Saturday, Forest Gate station
Hello – it’s nice to be back after our enforced break over the summer. At at the request of our old new leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, we’ll be kic…Read more…
‘No-go area’ for women
The higher up the income ladder you are in the UK, the less likely it is that you’re a woman. This was the conclusion of a new report by the London School of Economics out this week (September 26)…Read more…
Ripoff bosses
Just three companies have been prosecuted for paying below the minimum wage in the past two and a half years, despite the government naming and shaming 700. Since February 2014 HM Revenue and…Read more…
UNISON welcomes campaign day on selective schools
Union warns that Theresa May’s plans ‘risk most of our children being left behind in schools with fewer of the best teachers and potentially fewer resources’
The article UNISON welcomes campaign day…Read more…
Transparency call
Serious questions need to be asked about the reasons for the closure of General Electric Power Conversion plant in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire with the loss of about 240 jobs, Unite said yesterday…Read more…
Norway Oil Workers On Strike
350 oil workers all members of the Industri Energi union, are on strike after wage talks broke down with the Norwegian Oil Industry Association. “We are on strike because the Norwegian Oil Industry…Read more…
Who provides your occupational health?
A recent TUC survey showed that 92% of workplaces with union health and safety representatives have some form of occupational health provision. This is well above the national average, where it is…Read more…