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Unite delegate Julian Allam gave an impassioned defence of a New Deal for Working People at Labour Party Conference on Tuesday (October 10). Julian called the last decade of Tory misrule “devastating” as he highlighted how “workers’ rights have been attacked and public services cut and privatised” alongside new anti-trade union laws. “To win the […]
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Unite has just published the report of its first ever all members’ survey and, although produced before the recent discovery of the Omicron variant, its findings reveal the reality of a sharpening…Read more…
In 1966, the first transatlantic container ship arrived into the Port of Grangemouth. The ship’s 226 containers were loaded with Scotch whisky for return sailing to the United States. In 2020, HMM…Read more…
Delegates at Unite’s sector conferences in Brighton have been meeting this week to discuss the formation of industry-wide responsesto issues like insecure work, outsourcing and automation.
The post…Read more…
The giant European trade union federation IndustriAll Europe, which covers 7m manufacturing, mining and energy workers has launched a campaign which aims to demonstrate the positive impact of…Read more…
New recruitment leaflet from UNISON. A key message is that more employers sit down with UNISON to negotiate terms and conditions that any other union in the sector and that we represent workers interests around the table.
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Collective bargaining’s massive decline in the UK must be reversed, Unite delegate Mahf Kahn told the TUC conference on Monday (September 10). He called the reduction of collective bargaining…Read more…
British workers are set for more wage pain as figures published on Tuesday (June 12) showed earnings growth slowed in the three months to April. The data from the Office of National Statistics…Read more…
While he was a member of the coalition government, Vince Cable was one of the main proponents of a liberal immigration policy, in particular arguing for greater openness to Indian migration as a necessary and even beneficial component of an EU-India tr…Read more…
Thousands of textile workers in the Dhaka suburb of Ashulia in Bangladesh have been sacked following protracted strikes this month over wages and other issues. The legitimate claims of workers in the…Read more…
To mark Disability History Month I thought this would be a good time to share the great progress unions have made on disability issues. Community have negotiated an adult apprenticeship agreement and…Read more…
Great TV advert for UNISON. Support at work is really important, it is simply horrible to face redundancy or discipline hearings or action under sickness procedures etc on your own without trained independent representation.
But we need to also point …Read more…
Its hot and smoggy here in Beijing Beijing, where G20 Labour and Employment Ministers have been meeting this week, but that’s not the main source of my frustration. Instead, I’m having a hard time getting my head around what Guy Ryder, head of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), described…Read more…
29 March 2016
By Aristea Koukiadaki, Isabel Távora and Miguel Martínez Lucio
In the first of a series of articles highlighting the impact of EU austerity measures on levels of collective…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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The TUC is joining Cambodian and global unions to press the Cambodian government to give workers the rights they are due under ILO conventions. And in particular, we want the Cambodian government to…Read more…
The first workers at a foreign owned car assembly plant in the southern USA have won collective bargaining rights. It’s the latest stage in the attempt by the mighty UAW, in association with…Read more…
Through gritted teeth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has this week issued a ‘staff discussion note’ which contains a bit of a bombshell. The ballooning inequality that results from rampaging top people’s pay is not, as previously thought, an unfortunate by-product of…Read more…
Chinese workers are more confident in themselves and are adopting mature and rational approaches in addressing labour conflicts, according to the recently released workers’ movement report by China…Read more…
#uLDC15 Delegates backed a call from Northern Region for a range of supports to enable branches to campaign for in-house services and to keep the National Joint Council as the negotiating body for local government members’ pay, terms and conditions.
#uLGC15 Although Scottish delegates were not able to vote, East Dumbartonshire’s Tommy Robertson supported the motion but asked delegates “not toRead more…