UNISON’s national executive council has agreed a general secretary election will take place this year
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Unite, Pride of Leeds
Unite lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) members along with friends and family helped form part of the largest turnout ever – around 40,000 – at the annual Leeds Pride festival…Read more…
Tube strike on
Over 400 Unite members, working as electrical and maintenance technicians, linesmen and signallers on London’s tube network will be taking part in a 24-hour strike from 6.30pm on Wednesday (August 5)…Read more…
Wake-up call
The revised pay deal that 2,000 easyJet cabin crew, members of Unite, accepted today (August 3) is also a wake-up call for the company’s bosses regarding future pay talks. The UK cabin crew…Read more…
Uncertain futures
Retail giant Sainsbury’s announced last week (July 29) that it has sold its chain of pharmacies to Celesio, the German drugs wholesaler owning LloydsPharmacy, in a deal worth £125m. The sale…Read more…
Ten charities challenge Cameron’s pre-election green promise
Leaders of ten leading UK charities concerned with protection of the environment have written to the Prime Minister, alarmed that: “early policy choices being made are running counter to the strong intentions you outlined in your pre-election climate pledges and in your manifesto, to…Read more…
Different vote, same old myths
As the last day to sign up to vote in the Labour leadership election quickly approaches next week (August 12), the anti-union media frenzy is now in full swing. It’s set to be the most…Read more…
Chancellor’s letter on public sector cuts: UNISON responds
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis comments on Osborne’s letter to public sector workers asking them to find ways to save money.
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Stop pinching our tips
Pizza Express waiting staff are to stage a series of demonstrations outside selected restaurants in protest at the multi-million-pound business stealing their tips. Staff have estimated that…Read more…
Community action celebrated
On the August 5, 1874 the people of Portsmouth rose up and took back a piece of Southsea Common that had been fenced off by the Pier Company preventing local people from accessing the beach. …Read more…
UNISON joins social work campaign
Campaigners unite to condemn impact of austerity and welfare cuts on the most vulnerable in our society
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George Osborne wants to know how to ‘get more for less’
The Chancellor wants to find more ways to cut public services
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Fast Food Workers In L.A. & N.Y.C Win Pay Deals
US Fast Food workers have won two important victories in their fight for better wages as both Los Angeles County and New York State voted to raise minimum wages says the Global union, the…Read more…
Crude caps on public servants’ redundancy payments are not value for money
Despite a settlement on redundancy terms agreed with the last Minister for the Cabinet Office, Matt Hancock’s Cabinet colleague, Francis Maude, which he described at the time as “for the longer term” the government seems intent to rush yet another change less than five years after the…Read more…
Branch Labour Link News: Leadership; London GLA & National Committee elections
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Still easily the slowest recovery of GDP per head on record
In the coverage of the GDP figures last week, some attention was paid to the ONS observation that on a per head basis GDP in 2015 Q2 is likely to be back to the pre-crisis level. This may be all well and good, but is hardly a measure of economic performance. The relevant measure is…
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Howard Dawber & the spirit of the East End
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Post-referendum, but not post-political!
Here is my piece in the Morning Star on the things I am looking forward to in this year’s Edinburgh Festivals. This year the Star will have four of us providing reviews of various events, and my…Read more…
Tower Hamlets Council motion regarding One Housing Group
This motion was passed by Tower Hamlets Council at its last meeting. Inside Housing reports that One Housing is in urgent talks to try and stop it being suspended as a perferred housing provider.
Urgent Motion regarding One Housing Group
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Austerity is Taking us in the Wrong Direction in Climate Change Fight:
posted by ruby utting July 09, 2015 Why should climate campaigners be involved in the battle against austerity? We are as likely as anyone else to be moved by the plight of disabled people whose…Read more…