It is with great pleasure that I recommend Eddie, Sonya, Abiola and Anu as your candidates for the 4 regional London seats in our NEC elections. They are great comrades and union organisers. I have been in many difficult meetings, debates and picket li…Read more…
‘It’s almost the same as living on the street’
“I could open a farm there,” Vadim Sardov, 24, joked about the inside of his caravan window, where it was so mouldy that plants started to sprout. Sardov came to the UK from Kazakhstan last September on a British government visa scheme for farm workers. He worked at a packhouse in Essex for UK Salads, […]
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‘Astonishing corporate greed’
The UK’s biggest supermarket Tesco continues its shameless profiteering spree, Unite said on Thursday (April 13) as the stock exchange published the retailer’s latest figures. Although Tesco’s profits were down from last year’s profits bonanza – which totalled a record-breaking £2bn in pre-tax profits – the supermarket still made an astonishing £3bn in profits over […]
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Reinstate Lee Fowler! Demo 20 April!
Reinstate Lee Fowler – electrician sacked after raising concerns about safety on site in Liverpool.
PROTEST
Thursday 20 April, 1:00pm
Cargill site
The Dock Road
Bootle
L20 8DF
SAFETY BEFORE PROFIT
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Care workers in Powys face fire and rehire
Care workers in Powys have been stripped of their paid break times and must now work longer hours
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Workers Memorial Day: Friday 28 April 2023
This year UNISON Housing Association Branch will be remembering those who have died at work due to accidents at work or from work related ill health & diseases. It is also a campaigning day to fight for the living at work and their health and…Read more…
UNISON prepares ‘robust response’ to government’s attempts to divide the health team
One Team values more important than ever, the national executive council heard today
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Dagenham Ford plant facing standstill
Workers employed by Lineside Logistics based at Ford’s engine plant in Dagenham are being balloted for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The ballot for industrial action began this week and closes on Tuesday 2 May. If the 120 plus workers, who are members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, vote for industrial action […]
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Saica paper workers to strike
Workers employed at Saica Paper UK Ltd in Manchester are to begin industrial action this month in a dispute over pay. The 40 members of Unite are employed in production roles at the Manchester Road factory. The company produces 100 per cent recycled paper for corrugated cardboard. The workers recorded a 97 per cent vote […]
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UNISON launches new migrant member network
UNISON is launching a dedicated network to support migrant members
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UNISON condemns government plans to X-ray children seeking asylum
Proposal “seeks to make healthcare staff complicit in the government’s cruelty”
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Evidence sought in independent blacklisting collusion inquiry
Unite is stepping up its search for information into the possible collusion by trade union officials into the blacklisting of construction workers. In April 2022 Unite established an independent inquiry into allegations that some union officials may have colluded with the blacklisting of construction workers. Workers were frequently denied work for raising safety concerns on …
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UNISON NEC Elections 2023: Less than one week to go before 1.3 million ballot papers are sent out
Next Monday 17 April ballot papers should start dropping through the home letter boxes of 1.3 million UNISON members. These are really important elections and I would urge all UNISON members to Vote and unite our unison by supporting candida…Read more…
Margaret Gray: A Tribute
We held the church service at St Mary’s then buried Mum on Thursday in Denbigh Town cemetery. Many thanks to the Church, funeral directors and staff at the Guildhall for a wonderful service, funeral and wake. Also, to our family and friends, who c…Read more…
Giant German Union To Demand 32 Hour Working Week
The German trade union IG Metall (IGM), Europe’s largest trade union, will be demanding an 4 day, 32 working week without loss of pay ahead of the next collective bargaining round for the steel, metalworking and electrical industries due to … Continue reading Read more…
Review of A Glorious History – The History Of The Print & Papermkaing Unions Of The UK and Ireland.
By journalist and broadcaster Nicholas Jones. Probably no other industry can match printing and publishing for the strength and intensity of the collective action which has been exercised over several centuries as workers have had to organise themselves to adjust … Continue reading Read more…
Review: Making History, by Stephen Fry
I must be the last person in England to have never read anything by “national treasure” Stephen Fry, but this book came up in conversation recently, so I have now done so. The book had…Read more…
Raise wage offer and prevent more university strikes, says UNISON
Staff are already leaving for better-paid jobs in supermarkets, warehouses and coffee shops.
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Trade unionist Gonul Erden released from prison in Turkey
‘I am a nurse and should be helping those affected, not held between four walls’
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Heathrow set for summer of strife
Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) is set for a shock exodus of security officers, according to a confidential survey of Unite members at the airport. The survey of over 750 security officers revealed that one in three are planning to leave their jobs within the next six months, while almost half of respondents are unsure whether […]
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