A STATEMENT FROM BWI – The Building and Wood Workers’ International Football is a game, but building stadiums is not child’s play. It is dangerous and tough labor. The workers who build the…Read more…
Unpaid overtime can’t be a blank cheque, says TUC
UK employees worked £35.1 billion worth of unpaid overtime last year, with 5.1 million employees putting in an extra 7.7 hours per week the TUC reports today. I can reveal that there was some slightly better news, since the percentage of employees working unpaid overtime has not kept pace with…Read more…
Should I stay or should I go?
By Deborah Parren, ATL policy officer. Trainee and newly qualified teachers are full of energy and good intentions to be the best teacher they can be for their pupils. Will this enthusiasm be…Read more…
Employment Tribunal Fees – the saga continues
https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/permission-to-appeal-decision-26-february-2016.html
UNISON has been granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against our defeat on employment tribunal fees in the Court of Appeal.
With mounting evidence of the way i…Read more…
A very positive alliance
The youngest person ever to be elected to the London Assembly believes that young people today are “way ahead of the government” on LGBT education in schools. Labour London Assembly member,…Read more…
We are LGBT
To some people LGBT is nothing more than a category of people, a description, a title, but to me it’s one big family. We stand for people who can’t stand for themselves. We march for people…Read more…
GMB members divided over fate of Trident
Peter Lazenby TRADE unionists and defence workers clashed yesterday over whether Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system should be renewed. Defence workers in the GMB union attending its…Read more…
Job losses and the Scottish Budget
In recent days there have been many political exchanges over job losses as a consequence of the cuts to council grant allocations in the Scottish Budget for 2016/17. Let’s look at the issue…Read more…
Higher ed conference backs campaign to keep NHS bursaries
Higher education delegates pledge to lobby for a reversal of Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap bursary
The article Higher ed conference backs campaign to keep NHS bursaries first…Read more…
UNISON launches higher education pay campaign
Higher education conference backs call for 5% or £1,000 pay rise
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The price of freedom
The aim of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history month is to celebrate and recognise LGBT people’s contributions to society. Having started in the US in 1994, with the support…Read more…
Petty vindictiveness: Conservative peers condemn #TUbill ban on payroll collection of union subs
Today saw the last day of the trade union bill’s committee debate in the Lords, and one of the main issues up for debate was the Government’s plans to end the check-off system of collecting union subscriptions directly from members’ salaries in the public sector Conservative peer…Read more…
Don’t expect govt bail out
As the steel industry cries out for government support, business secretary Savid Javid told manufacturers yesterday (February 24) that it could not expect to be bailed out like the banks were in 2008…Read more…
Happy birthday Harry
Harry Leslie Smith, a political activist who has worked with Unite and the wider Labour movement on various campaigns – most recently in getting out the vote at the last general election – celebrated…Read more…
10 workers’ rights #Brexit would risk
The EU certainly isn’t perfect. But lurking within all the directives and regulations are a whole set of rights and protections for British workers. These rights came from the EU, and are…Read more…
Higher ed workers vow to campaign against TU Bill
UNISON higher education conference sets out campaign to defeat bill and protect trade union rights and reps
The article Higher ed workers vow to campaign against TU Bill first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
The NHS runs on goodwill– but how long can that last?
The 2015 NHS Staff Survey results are out and it is welcome news that staff are mostly happy with the support they get from colleagues and line managers. But life is far from easy in the NHS and the responsibility for that falls squarely on the Government. A recent King’s Fund report showed that…Read more…
Caerphilly joins councils pledging to pay school support staff fees
Caerphilly council’s decision to pay fees comes as a result of an ongoing campaign by UNISON
The article Caerphilly joins councils pledging to pay school support staff fees first appeared on the…Read more…
#EUreferendum: Brexit risks our employment rights
Whilst media attention focuses on the impact the EU referendum seems to be having on relations between members of the Conservative Party, there are more serious concerns about the impact the result could have on rights for working people. The reality i…Read more…
Europe: Should we stay or should we go? Sunday Night Live Sunday 28 Feb
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