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Food bank charity The Trussell Trust reports that one in five working people are now turning to food banks, as the cost of living crisis takes its toll
The article Food banks under pressure from a ‘tsunami of need’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite is teaming up with Fans Supporting Foodbanks who will travel to Glasgow from Liverpool ahead of the Rangers vs Liverpool Champions’ League group game today (October 12). They will team up with fans from a number of clubs including Rangers and Celtic to deliver food to foodbanks in the City of Glasgow. Research conducted […]
The post Football fans and Unite team up to tackle food poverty in Glasgow appeared first on UNITElive.org.
Speakers talk of the devastation caused by Conservative attacks on benefits and the most vulnerable in society
The article Conference sets campaigning tasks on universal credit first appeared on the…Read more…
Local government delegates agree it’s essential to get rid of the Conservative government in order to save our services
The article The government needs to ‘sling their hook’ first appeared on the…Read more…
Here’s some Easter cheer – pictured are Unite Community members today (March 29) delivered a trolley full of Easter eggs to Warminster food bank which were gratefully received by the…Read more…
This evening I got a tweet from Barclays Wealth Managemen with this picture saying “Our latest #ProsperityMap finds that the UK millionaire population grew by 7.6% year-on-year, up to 625,000”.
I replied “and 8% of UK adults don’t have enough money fo…Read more…
Dozens of Labour MPs came out to support Unite’s foodbank Christmas appeal in conjunction with the Mirror’s Real Britain and the Trussell Trust on Wednesday (December 7) just outside Parliament….Read more…
At Unite’s ‘pop-up’ foodbank outside Parliament this week (December 7), we spoke to Labour MPs Ian Mearns and Lisa Nandy (pictured), as well as foodbank manager Nathan Jones. …Read more…
Unite has teamed up with the Trussell Trust and the Mirror’s Real Britain in a Christmas appeal in support of foodbanks. On Wednesday (December 7), Labour MPs came to support the appeal…Read more…
Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months: “What most people don’t realise about people whose benefits are…Read more…
Unable to work, Karen’s only lifeline has been Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the disability and illness benefit which allowed her to get by. But her life suddenly turned upside down when her…Read more…
Unite is calling on MPs from across the political divide to take a stand against UK hunger by supporting the Hope not Hunger pop-up foodbank when it comes to parliament on Wednesday (December 7)….Read more…
Unite is teaming up with anti-poverty charity Trussell Trust and calling on the public to help families facing hunger this Christmas as foodbanks’ busiest month of the year begins. Find out…Read more…
Writer and veteran campaigner Harry Leslie Smith looks to the past and shares his hopes – and fears – for the future
The article A history man’s challenge for the future first appeared on the…Read more…
The tax credit cuts saga continued in Parliament yesterday (October 29) as Labour MP Frank Field urged the government through a cross-party motion to rethink its tax credit reforms that, if pushed…Read more…
#stuc15 The rise of foodbanks in the 6th richest country in the world is a national scandal and the STUC will continue to campaign vigorously against austerity, low pay and benefit sanctions which see so many people reliant on them.
It will also work to support foodbanks with advice on trade union and employment rights until the need for them can be eradicated.
Supporting the motion, UNISON’sRead more…
Pictures of some of the West Ham Labour Party activists out campaigning with our Parliamentary Candidate, Lyn Brown and Stratford & New Town ward Candidate, Charlene McLean.
Yesterday evening in Stratford, Green Street this morning and this aftern…Read more…