The Lifelong learning bill has just completed its second reading in parliament. The TUC and unions have long campaigned for strengthened rights and support for lifelong learning to improve the working lives of our members. However, the bill raises sign…Read more…
Margaret Gray 1941-2023
My sisters’ Helen, Lucy and I lost our Mum on Tuesday evening. She died at her home in Ruthin peacefully in her sleep. She had been in poor health for quite some time but we did not expect to lose her so soon.The picture of Mum pushing one of us in a p…Read more…
Environment agency workers begin fresh wave of industrial action
UNISON members working at the agency have seen pay fall since 2011, meaning that staff effectively work one day a week for free
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Newcastle and Northumberland facing Arriva bus strikes
Bus workers employed by Arriva working in Newcastle and Northumberland are being balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay. The dispute involves 330 drivers and engineers who are members of Unite. The workers have been offered a pay increase worth 10 per cent (paid in two stages) for the drivers on the highest […]
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West Mids National Express bus strike back on
All out indefinite strike action impacting 93 per cent of the West Midlands bus network by 3,100 National Express drivers will begin on Monday (March 20). Strikes are back on after National Express refused to allow drivers to vote on its latest offer during meetings at their depots. The union was willing to put the […]
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Blog: Why this pay offer should be accepted
Collective action has forced the government to listen and take action to improve the pay of all of our hardworking NHS staff writes UNISON head of health Sara Gorton
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Unite response to NHS pay offer
Responding to the government’s new pay offer for NHS workers in England, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Following months and months of unnecessary delay, the government finally gets into the negotiating room. They need to take full responsibility for their dither and delay, which has caused unnecessary pain to both staff and patients in […]
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UNISON to recommend acceptance of NHS pay offer
If accepted, the offer would boost pay significantly this year and mean a wage increase next year that’s more than the government had budgeted for.
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Bristol healthcare assistants win over £1m in re-banding victory
Healthcare assistants in Bristol celebrate a huge re-banding victory thanks to an 18-month UNISON campaign
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Budget 2023 – was that it?
A Budget with no ambition, more of the same at best, and basically ignoring the most pressing problems facing the UK.
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Blog: Money for everything, everywhere, just not your pay rise
Today’s budget found the cash to offer tax cuts to big businesses and the highest earners – but nothing for public service pay, again
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A letter to the Chancellor
Dear Chancellor: We’re told it’s the ‘Budget for Growth’. That is – apparently – what everyone is talking about. Well yes Chancellor. You’re right. Our members are indeed talking about growth. Because as you release your Budget and spout on about your GDP and your business incentive drives, my members are talking about the sickeningly high growth in their weekly […]
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Growth won’t happen without strong public services
Chancellor can find the money when it suits him
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125th Anniversary of the 1st Ever “Labour” Council – West Ham 1 November 1898 – 2023
I have posted in the past on former Cllr George Coe on my blog, https://www.johnslabourblog.org/2015/05/west-ham-municipal-elections-1893-now.htmland https://www.johnslabourblog.org/2020/10/socialist-labour-west-ham-cllr-george.html.I now have fu…Read more…
Pay up, chancellor – or the doom loop will never end
This year’s Budget day will see teachers and university staff, civil servants and rail workers out on strike for better pay. The government has to learn that cuts are opposed to economic growth, and the economy will only recover when workers have money…Read more…
Why we need Fair Funding for Wales
People in Wales are enduring the worst cost of living crisis for a generation. Nisreen Mansour explains what Wales TUC is calling on the UK Government to do to deliver better for Wales.
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One year on from P&O Ferries, the government is still letting workers down
It’s been a year since the P&O Ferries sackings, but nothing has been done to stop another one.
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Mission impossible
The corpse of New Labour cannot be resuscitated “If Reeves and Starmer’s economics had been applied in 1945 the NHS … MoreRead more…
Budget must safeguard services by boosting pay
Chancellor must invest in wages
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UNISON celebrates International Women’s Day in Glasgow
‘Women’s work is often undervalued and underpaid, but UNISON knows the true value’
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