From a Unite Community member’s real-life ‘Daniel Blake’ benefit sanctions experience: “I asked how I was supposed to survive for the week with no money and having to live on…Read more…
‘Me versus the world’
With Ken Loach’s award-winning film I, Daniel Blake exposing the cruel reality of life those caught up in Britain’s brutal benefits’ system, we asked people to tell us what it’s like to be at the…Read more…
Left all alone
More than two thirds of English councils have cut vital care packages for disabled people since the government scrapped the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in favour of paying local authorities…Read more…
Building a productive economy
After a long and distracting contest, ending with Jeremy’s re-election as leader of our Party on an even greater mandate than last time means that we can get back to work. We can move away…Read more…
So much anger, so much pain
Ahead of the US premiere of Ken Loach’s latest film, I, Daniel Blake, one reviewer called it a “joyous, funny and moving portrait of man”. At the heart of this portrait is the film’s title…Read more…
Cameron quits
David Cameron has stood down as the MP for Witney with immediate effect, two months after resigning as prime minister. The former Conservative leader’s legacy will be defined by his unleashing…Read more…
Drowning in debt
Young people may once have enjoyed a certain level of financial freedom before starting families, but now the so-called carefree youth is a thing of the past as generation austerity start their…Read more…
Post-Brexit wage pain
Even as jobs become more plentiful, new figures show that workers’ wage pain is set to continue as inflation bites and the UK’s post-Brexit economy begins to take shape. Compared to July of…Read more…
‘No justification for cuts’
Campaigners against cuts to Bristol City Council will be holding a ‘snap’ protest from midday on Saturday August 27 at the water fountains, Broad Quay, BS1 4DA in Bristol city centre. The…Read more…
Housing crisis in Ramsgate
The Unite Community ‘Housing Crisis Roadshow’ reached the seaside town of Ramsgate yesterday, where local people said unaffordable house prices and a shortage of social housing has left them unable…Read more…
Services will go in cuts frenzy
Local government services in the historic city of Bristol will be shredded because of swingeing cuts imposed by the Tory government, trade unions warned today (Monday August 22). Care for…Read more…
‘Massive impact’
Campaigners from the Unite have taken their message against massive NHS Fife cuts direct to the Scottish health minister. Members of the union lobbied NHS Fife board members at the…Read more…
We need a properly funded NHS – make your voice heard
This week’s news that United Lincolnshire Hospital’s NHS Trust will be closing its A&E department in Grantham in the evenings due to staff shortages is, in the words of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, “disappointing, yet unsurprising”. The TUC and health unions, campaigners and think…Read more…
‘Attack on poorest’
The devastated father of a teenage boy who was killed in a head-on collision has spoken out after being cruelly charged the bedroom tax on his dead son’s room. Grieving Terry Fannon, from…Read more…
The cost of poverty
Poverty costs the UK £78bn a year in public spending and lost tax, new research into the effects of deprivation on Britain’s finances has found. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) ‘Counting…Read more…
Brexit top of UNISON agenda for TUC
‘The need for stability and reassurance has never been greater,’ says Dave Prentis
The article Brexit top of UNISON agenda for TUC first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
We will not be silenced
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will be in Bromley this Saturday (July 23) to join the march against the cuts and privatisation to local services in the borough. McCluskey will warn the…Read more…
The new poor
Falling levels of home ownership and a reliance on state benefits mean that middle income families now have more in common with poor households than wealthy ones, with working families becoming the…Read more…
Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries where spending was cut, economic growth was significantly damaged
Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances to health. OECD figures show this strategy has failed. Cuts have greatly damaged economic growth – to a far greater extent than…Read more…
Theresa May: our union will continue to challenge and push our agenda
Today, we get a new prime minister: Theresa May – and our union will challenge where necessary but also push our agenda on the issues that matter
The article Theresa May: our union will continue to…Read more…