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Dockyards football teams from across Britain, and further afield, gathered in West Thurrock on Saturday (3 Aug) for the UK’s first International Dockers Charity Football event. The tournament featured five-a-side teams from Bristol to London and Southampton to Liverpool. They even welcomed one team from Chile. Unite reps organised the event raising money for Havens […]
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From Tuesday (June 27) workers at St Mungo’s will stage an unprecedented indefinite strike accusing management of a shocking dereliction of duty towards the homeless and the charity’s own staff. This momentous decision has been provoked by the ongoing indifference of management who callously refuse to acknowledge the struggle front-line workers face to pay the […]
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Workers at the homeless charity St Mungo’s will extend their month long strike indefinitely thanks to management’s ‘do nothing’ approach to negotiations. This momentous decision has been provoked by the on-going indifference of management and trustees who callously refuse to acknowledge the struggle front line workers face to pay the bills. After tax and deductions […]
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Howls of protest have met plans to cut staff at the long-established Mayhew animal charity in North West London, as Unite the union holds a consultative ballot on whether its members wish to proceed…Read more…
Striking maintenance workers at the St Mungo’s housing charity will stage a protest in Bristol on Monday (June 21) over bullying and anti-union behaviour by the management. Around a dozen members of…Read more…
RSPCA staff to hold consultative ballot on industrial action in pay and contracts’ row.
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Unite has given notice of its intention to ballot members working at the homeless charity, St Mungo’s for strike action after the collapse of Acas talks last Friday (July 26). The ballot of…Read more…
Unite St Mungo’s reps today (January 16) manned a union stall outside the housing charity’s annual staff conference in London in an effort to recruit more members and engage with workers whose terms…Read more…
Unite, which represents workers throughout the charity sector, has welcomed a commitment by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ (RSPCA) new chief executive Chris Sherwood to…Read more…
MPs join UNISON members and employers at parliamentary launch of union’s Violence at Work charter
The article Time to stop the violence plaguing workers in the community sector first appeared on the…Read more…
An armed response unit, a Turkish coup and Turkmenistan’s ‘door to hell’ – all these (and more) featured in one member’s summer adventure
The article To Russia, with love first appeared on the…Read more…
UNISON calls for protection for members and transparency from trustees in the wake of high-profile charity collapses
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UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentice, attacks the Charity “Action For Children” after 73.5% of members vote for strike action.
Believe me, for Charity workers to vote this way must mean that they are being treated with complete and utter disdain b…Read more…
Despite the government’s claims to the contrary, their plans are about gagging charities and charity workers from conducting necessary scrutiny.
The article The voluntary sector has become just…Read more…
It is not too late to treat staff – who have given so much – with the respect they deserve, and to negotiate with them in good faith. By doing so, a strike that nobody wants can be averted, and…Read more…
UNISON is urging managers at charity Action for Children to avoid a strike after UNISON members voted overwhelmingly for industrial action following a long-running dispute over pay.
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UNISON today (Monday) urged managers at charity Action for Children to avoid a strike. It comes as UNISON members overwhelmingly backed industrial action following a long-running dispute over pay. A…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…
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…
Branches and activists have asked for union advice on how they might offer practical solidarity and support
The article Refugee Christmas appeals first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…