Delegates declare its time to act as charity, care and housing workers experience assaults
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Delegates declare its time to act as charity, care and housing workers experience assaults
The article Violence isn’t part of the job, community delegates agree first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
UNISON calls for protection for members and transparency from trustees in the wake of high-profile charity collapses
The article Charity trustees need to be transparent, community conference…Read more…
‘We need to work together,’ shadow minister Anna Turley tells union activist from community and voluntary sector
The article ‘Your role, your voice, has never been more valuable’ first…Read more…
The values that I grew up with in Leeds are the values that are at the heart of our great union, driving the members, activists and staff who achieve so much. And they’re what I’m proud to fight for…Read more…
Today I was in Southport for the start of the 2016 Unison Community (Housing Associations and voluntary organisations) seminar and conference.
I have never been to Southport before and am really impressed. It is a beautiful resort and remi…Read more…
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Below is a statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Volkswagen’s continuing refusal to bargain with UAW Local 42: The diesel emissions scandal at Volkswagen has called into question the…Read more…
Each year more than five million people – including many dedicated public servants – work an average of almost eight hours a week in unpaid overtime, according to research published today by the TUC….Read more…
26 February 2016
We are grateful to John Hendy QC who has brought to our attention this highly significant public statement by the German Judges on TTIP (and CETA). The statement offers a…Read more…
Unite local government members overwhelmingly reject ‘paltry’ pay offer in consultative ballot About 70,000 local government workers, members of Unite have overwhelmingly rejected the ‘paltry’…Read more…
The dangers of the industrial chemical asbestos were first acknowledged in the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until nearly 100 years later – after relentless campaigning against corporate interests and…Read more…
UNISON welcomes decision that means fight can continue against imposition of fees to take a case to tribunal
The article UNISON’s battle to scrap employment tribunal fees set to continue first…Read more…
If there were any remaining doubts that the Tory government is aiming to lock in its grip on power for generations, this week they were laid to rest. New details were published on Wednesday…Read more…
Since 1995, around 50,000 people in Brazil have been freed from slave-like workRead more…
By Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes In all the arguments about whether or not reception baseline assessment is accurate or not, what is not discussed is that it is deeply disrespectful to young children and…Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…