I was really pleased this morning that both myself and Yvonne Green were re-elected unopposed as the respective Chair & Vice Chair of Greater London Labour Link committee for the next 2 years. The last two years have been very difficult for …Read more…
Blog: This cynical, divisive kick in the teeth
Chancellor’s pay freeze for most public service workers mocks the government’s commitment to ‘levelling up’ with old-style Thatcherism
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Give Newham the dosh you promised us Chancellor!
Later today the Chancellor will announce the details of the Comprehensive Spending Review, which sets out the government’s departmental spending plans for the next financial year. Let us not forget the financial impact COVID-19 has had on local governm…Read more…
School catering staff win in the Wirral after UNISON pressure
Private company abandons plan to make staff redundant and will now access the government furlough scheme
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Covid contracts need proper scrutiny to end gravy train
Ministers must be held to account after spending billions of pounds of public money
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Unions stand up to BHP and exploitative mining companies
Today I took part in as a pension trustee in an online asset owner briefing by trade unions (IndustriALL Global Union) who organise workers in Columbia, Chile and Australia employed (directly or indirectly) by the multinational mining …Read more…
Politics can‘t interfere in the approval of PPE, warns UNISON
Political pressure to approve substandard PPE does not bode well for HSE independence once the UK finally leaves the safety of the EU, says the union
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Covid-19 “Lockdown” Food Bank
On Saturday I was invited with my colleague, Cllr John Whitworth, by a local charity based in West Ham ward to attend the opening of a nearby Covid-19 lockdown food bank.
During this latest “lockdown” the food bank will be open every Sunda…Read more…
Safety in libraries must be a priority
‘Our library workers need the certainty that will come with their workplaces being closed for this next lockdown phase’
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Our COVID response fund – helping members through the pandemic
UNISON’s There for You charity is reopening the COVID-19 response fund to help members who are struggling as a direct result of coronavirus
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Blog: Still by your side during the second wave
There is no rest for me or anyone in UNISON while our members continue to do all they can to fight this pandemic and keep our communities going
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Our Prime Minister and his advisors make a traditional halloween announcement on Covid
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UNISON organiser helps families find half-term meals
Area organiser Jack Horwood set up Help Out When School’s Out, an online search tool connecting families to local businesses providing half-term meals
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Society must do more to tackle structural racism, says UNISON
Urgent action needed to protect Black communities from second wave
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Teaching assistants covering twice as many lessons in the pandemic
UNISON survey reveals huge rise in numbers doing higher-grade work as teachers fall ill or fail to get tests
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“UNISON calls on government to pull back from scrapping Union Learning Fund”
UNISON is calling on the government to pull back from its plan to scrap the Union Learning Fund in England, saying that the decision makes no sense.The announcement that the fund would be scrapped came as the economy struggles to bounce back fro…Read more…
Disabled people an ‘afterthought’ for government during COVID
The grim statistics on COVID-related hazards facing disabled people are discussed during UNISON’s Disability Live! online conference
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Covid vaccine roll-out must not involve private firms
There must be no repeat of test and trace foul-ups
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University support staff left carrying the can for chaotic start of term
Workers are angry at being left to manage the fallout, threats and abuse
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Some employers only paying lip service to Black staff’s Covid fears
The stakes are too high for employers to get this wrong
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