“People are joining the union for advice and security at this worrying time,” notes Dave Prentis as growth this year tops 15,000
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“People are joining the union for advice and security at this worrying time,” notes Dave Prentis as growth this year tops 15,000
The article Record numbers join UNISON first appeared on the UNISON…Read more…
Earlier this year, we set ourselves a target – to keep on growing our union. We’re not resting on our laurels, we owe it to every UNISON member and every potential UNISON member to keep on growing…Read more…
Last year’s Grovember campaign was such a success we’re doing it again in Mat with a Go for Growth month
The article Let’s Go for Growth in May first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
I’m in Beijing, China for the annual G20 Labour & Employment Ministers meeting (LEMM). Priti Patel has already got on her plane and gone looking for work in Theresa May’s new Cabinet, but trade union leaders from across the world – known as the L20 – are still working…Read more…
The global trade union movement is pressing the ‘international financial institutions’ (IFIs) to switch track, abandoning support for austerity, and replacing it with a global recovery strategy consisting of public investment stimulus and coordinated wage increase; investments in…Read more…
We are gradually winning the argument that workers’ rights (known in the academic literature as Employment Protection Legislation, or EPL) are not only good for the workers concerned, but also beneficial – or at the very least not harmful – to the economy as a whole. See this OECD…Read more…
Yesterday the IFS set out a bleaker view for the economy and public finances in its Green Budget, which is published every year in the run-up to the Chancellor’s Budget Statement. Given the gloomy projections, let’s hope the government takes note, especially with regard to the fiscal mandate….Read more…
The G20 summit in Antalya, on Turkey’s southern, Mediterranean coast, ended today with a communique that almost rises to the challenge facing the global economy. The main headlines are about terrorism and the refugee crisis, hardly surprising given the events in Paris and Antalya’s…Read more…