Tackling racism is essential because it destroys trade union solidarity, divides us and sets us against each other.
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Tackling racism is essential because it destroys trade union solidarity, divides us and sets us against each other.
The article We’ll continue to fight racism and attacks on our union –…Read more…
UNISON statement on announcement that Garvagh Care Home will close in May
The article Closure of Four Seasons home first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Date: Friday 22 January 2016
UNISON hails historic pay deal for further education support staff in Scotland
UNISON has led negotiations to achieve the first ever national pay rise for over four thousand support staff in Scotland‘s Further Education Colleges. Support staff deliver a range of vital student services and are key to the running of the 25 new colleges in Scotland.
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As it couldn’t get any worse for beleaguered steelworkers, today’s (January 22) Mirror front page reports that the government could be considering building new Royal Navy warships with cheap imported…Read more…
Peers will be warned that the Trade Union Bill is ‘a regressive step that will harm good industrial relations’
The article UNISON to lobby Welsh peers on Trade Union Bill first appeared on the…Read more…
UNISON welfare charity There for you wants you to help raise funds in this year’s Pyrenees walk challenge
The article Can you help raise funds for our welfare charity first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Thirty years ago this Sunday (January 24) Rupert Murdoch made his move to Wapping – sacking 5,500 print workers employed on his newspapers overnight. It was an act of sheer brutality…Read more…
(This pay claim information DOES NOT apply to members who are employed on NJC, Craft, Soulberry, Chief Officer or Youth Officer terms & conditions) For NJC members – the employer’s side has offered a 1% pay rise from 1 April … Continue reading →Read more…
This lunchtime, I’m taking part with other trade unionists, CBI representatives and ILO Director General Guy Ryder at the ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s 2014 Forced Labour Protocol, a major step forward in the eradication of modern slavery, trafficking and other…Read more…
The sky above Number 11 Downing Street must be a mass of tangled string and paper. In the summer, the Chancellor flew a kite about changing taxation on pensions to resemble that of ISA accounts. Instead of up-front tax relief, savers would pay tax on t…Read more…
High-handed action by bosses over pay at the charity Action for Children has prompted Unite and UNISON to ballot their members for industrial action. The unions said that management intends to impose…Read more…
This week has seen global financial markets continuing to collapse. The UK FTSE entered so-called ‘bear market’ territory (falling at one point by over 20% from peak). Official figures showed the UK CPI was zero in 2015, the lowest annual figure since the great depression. In the policy arena,…Read more…
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President Maduro Takes Action to Safeguard Bolivarian Revolution Demonstration of supporters of the Bolivarian revolution outside the opening of the National Assembly, January 5, 2016. Venezuelan…Read more…
Remember the Red Tape Challenge? Every week, the 2010-15 coalition government would stick a pin in the statute book and ask what seemed to be the Daily Mail reader comments panel to let them know which regulations should be axed. The current Cabinet Of…Read more…
The UK steel industry workforce faced one of its worst blows yesterday (January 18) as steel giant Tata announced the loss of just over 1,000 jobs, the majority of which will be axed at the…Read more…
Ballymena, Co Antrim and Hollywood. Worlds apart you might think. But such is the threat to jobs and the community that Ballymena-born award winning actor Liam Neeson has joined with Unite to fight…Read more…
At the Lords second reading of the Trade Union Bill, the debate kicked off with complaints from opposition and crossbench Peers that the government was late in publishing impact assessment and consultation responses to show their justification for the …Read more…
UNISON Cymru/Wales is to present the findings of its thorough review of what it is like to work for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to the senior management team at a board meeting today….Read more…
Learning support workers or teaching assistants do all those vital but unheralded jobs in our schools
The article Glamorgan decision on learning support registration fees welcomed first appeared on…Read more…