Shantha David named Liberty’s lawyer of the year for leading the fight against employment tribunal fees
The article UNISON lawyer wins major human rights award first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
AFL-CIO and ETUC Support Fair Trade Practices
AFL-CIO and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) issued a joint statement today on trade and multilateralism on June 15, 2018: The working people of the United States and Europe have been…Read more…
Speech at Labour Party State of the Economy Conference, May 19th
Tony Burke – ‘Brexit and Labour’s Industrial Strategy’ Intro – Brexit Thank you for the invite to speak today. I would like to start by saying something very briefly about ‘Brexit’. The main…Read more…
Speech at the launch of ‘A Trade Governance Model That Works For Everyone’ – London May 10th
Good evening and thanks for the inviation to speak this evening. Unite and the TUC has worked with all of the bodies who took part in the work of publishing the document A Trade Governance Model…Read more…
Hold bad bosses to account
Bad bosses who exploit their workers should be held to account, facing higher fines and greater threat of prosecution, the government has been told. These were among nearly 40 other…Read more…
Pay the Rate: how the EU is closing the loopholes used to exploit migrant workers – but is it too late for us?
By Jude Kirton-Darling Labour MEP – North East England Concerns about free movement and EU migration were amongst the top reasons why many voted to leave in June 2016. Periodically, a dispute…Read more…
Legal Eagles
Behind the scenes with our award-winning lawyers
The article Legal Eagles first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
The following blog is from MIT Technology Review and puts an alternative view on the current trend by some politicians and techies who argue that automation will create more and new jobs. Of course…Read more…
Unite Launches Groundbreaking ‘Pay Claim Generator’ To Boost Collective Bargaining
Unite, launched a new groundbreakin digital tool to help members to secure better pay deals and help with Collective Bargaining. Unite has dveloped a ‘Pay Claim Generator’ which will help…Read more…
Fantasy Trade Deals: Welcome To Cloud Cuckoo Land
Last weeks latest ‘flight of fancy’ by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and his Brexit team (cheered on by the pro-Brexit media) that the UK has held informal talks on joining the Trans-Pacific…Read more…
A Union Voice From Europe
By Martin Mayer, UK TUC delegate to EU Economic and Social Committee December 2017 “BREXIT means BREXIT?” Reality check on current status of the BREXIT negotiations On Friday 8th December, Theresa…Read more…
Oppose Tory Plans To Scrap Your Woking Time Rights
Well, it finally happened. After promising to protect workers rights, the Prime Minister is now under pressure to begin disamantling basic workers rights once we leave the EU with Boris Johnson and…Read more…
Brexit secretary tells Parliament & public that industry impact studies do not exist
Unite has said David Davis has “deceived Parliament and the public”, after the Brexit secretary admitted the government has not carried out assessments of the impact of leaving the EU for different…Read more…
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Delegates, Unite Sector Conferences, November 15th, 2017.
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Sector Conference – 15th November 2017 The Challenge of Brexit Conference we meet at a time when manufacturing is being damaged by the Brexit chaos created by a…Read more…
UNISON calls for swift deal on Brexit transition
General secretary stresses that British workers must not be expected to pay for Brexit as they have with the financial crisis
The article UNISON calls for swift deal on Brexit transition first…Read more…
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US Unions & Trump’s NAFTA Renegotiations
NAFTA is back in the spotlight 23 years after it became law. Donald Trump pledged to withdraw from it. Instead he’s seeking to renegotiate it (in secret). The first round of talks wrapped up August…Read more…
3 employment rights that aren’t working for young mums and dads. And 2 rights that they should have.
Today we’re publishing the findings from our research with over 1,000 young mums and dads. We wanted to know what young mums and dads thought about the workplace rights which are supposed to help them manage their childcare. We asked them: If they are aware of three key existing employment rights…Read more…
‘Strike busters’?
Unite announced it had launched legal action against the catalogue retailer, Argos and two employment agencies today (August 23) after it emerged the retailer was attempting to break a strike by…Read more…
Highly Respected Trade Unionist ‘Sacked’ From EHRC Board
Sarah Veale, a highly respected trade unionist has been effectively dismissed by the Minister of Women and Equalities Justine Greening from her position on the board of the Equality and Human Rights…Read more…