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Reminder for all UNISON members interested in climate change!
Come to our next Green Network meeting in Glasgow – this Saturday, 27 February.
Guest speaker Ric Lander, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, will be speaking mainly on pensions disinvestment campaigns, but will be referring also to fracking and other important policy areas.
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The government has repeatedly dismissed fears that an EU-US trade deal, currently being negotiated in secret, would threaten the National Health Service. Critics have long warned that clauses…Read more…
Bill’s restaurant is the latest chain to be accused of keeping tips left for waiting staff by customers. Bill’s is one of the fastest growing restaurant chains. It has 67 restaurants…Read more…
As someone who enjoys political history and playing around with numbers, here are the vote totals for democratic socialist candidates for US president since 1900, when Eugene Debs first ran. In 1924,…Read more…
U magazine wants to highlight how the union helps members’ wellbeing
The article Help us inspire members in a time of crisis first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Circular No NP/ 70 /16To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional CouncilsOur Ref: L/2/201623rd January 2016 Dear Colleagues,Legal Update: Holiday Pay. Further to…Read more…
UNISON has been asked to publish an apology agreed by Jon Rogers, arising from written comments that Mr Rogers made about UNISON’s general secretary, Dave Prentis, in connection with the recent…Read more…
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Guardian Unite union set to present law expert’s advice to government, who they believe have kept Britain in the dark over deal’s potential impact on health service Nurses demonstrate against…Read more…
As private equity firm Greybull Capital may be set to take control of Tata Steel’s Long Products division in Scunthorpe in April as part of a £400m deal to rescue the operation, steel unions have…Read more…
“Who hates the miners? Thatcher. Who else? The police, the public and the tabloid press,” says the character of legendary campaigner, Mark Ashton, to fellow activist Mike Jackson, during a Gay Pride…Read more…
Statement from Tine Jorgensen, Chair of the Danish Union of Librarians
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Open + /Unstaffed Libraries – It’s Different in Denmark
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If you think the Tory attempts to prevent unions opposing cuts in the public sector through the Trade Union Bill are bad, spare a thought for the public sector unions in Swaziland, sub-Saharan…Read more…
A new report from the TUC on the benefits of paid time off for union reps provides evidence that the Government’s attack on facility time in the public sector is wrong-headed. The proposals in the. This is the culmination of a campaign waged by the political right against workplace representation…Read more…
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Today’s news about the positive result secured by UNISON in the case of Lock -v- British Gas may have positive implications beyond the case of those like Mr Lock, a salesman, who earned commission (which was not, but…Read more…
Iran is returning to the international community, as the nuclear weapons programme is ended and sanctions are being abandoned. Throughout the diplomatic standoff, unions globally and here in the UK…Read more…
Case: British Gas Trading Limited v Mr Z J Lock & Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills UNISON has today (Monday 22 February) successfully defended an appeal at the Employment…Read more…
Earlier this month, thousands of trade unionists marched in Madrid, Spain under the slogan “to strike is not a crime” to show solidarity with eight trade union activists on trial for…Read more…
22 February 2016
By Michelle Singleton, UNISON Policy Unit
The Enterprise Bill, now on its Second Reading in the House of Commons and under debate today, legislates to cap exit payments to public…Read more…