I had another relatively early start to get to the NEC conference pre meeting for 8.30am. I had a day off running but did some HIIT instead. The NEC pre meeting went well and I was in the conference hall for the 9.30am start (Tuesday start is 10am…Read more…
UNISON joins forces with Friends on the Earth on due diligence law
Members are urged to join the fight to hold business and the public sector to account for human rights and environmental damage in their supply chains
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UNISON joins forces with Friends of the Earth on due diligence law
Members are urged to join the fight to hold business and the public sector to account for human rights and environmental damage in their supply chains
The article UNISON joins forces with Friends of the Earth on due diligence law first appeared on the UNISON National site.
UNISON Community Seminar 2025
Yesterday, the UNISON Community (Housing Associations and Voluntary Sector) annual seminar took place in Bristol. The day started at a 9am pre Conference meeting for myself and the Community Service Group Executive. 10am the seminar started with S…Read more…
Social Murder?: Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK
Life expectancy has increased in the UK more or less constantly for more than a century. Around 2012, this all stopped, and among poorer populations, it actually went in reverse. In some parts of the UK, the change to premature mortality rates (death u…Read more…
Blog: We need a new law to protect human rights and the environment
Companies must be held to account when they fail to prevent abuses and harms
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Mining and Human Rights: LAPFF Chair Returns from Brazil Tailings Dam Trip
Check out this press release by the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (I am Joint Vice Chair) on the recent visit by our Chair to Brazil. Many thanks to Doug and our engagement partners, PIRC, for all their work during this important visit. Some …Read more…
Blog: Help us fight back against the government’s ‘Rights Removal Bill’
The Westminster government has deliberately used negative stereotypes to pass a bill that will remove our basic human rights.
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UNISON supports legal challenge over UK’s use of PPE suppliers
‘UK public procurement has continued to be stained by forced labour and union busting’
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Omicron: Extending our solidarity to PPE supply chain workers
At UNISON, the paradox that our members are saving lives using products made by workers whose rights are violated is very uncomfortable
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UNISON demands higher human rights standards in PPE
‘Our 1.3 million members working in health, local government, education and other public services don’t want to use items at work made by severely exploited workers’
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Who will remember them?
On sea beds
of the Aegean.
Of the Mediterranean.
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‘Vital victory for entire labour movement’
The government has been forced to confirm that workers taking lawful industrial action have a right to picket their workplace during the Covid-19 lockdown. In doing so they have vetoed the actions of…Read more…
Protecting the right to picket
Unite has filed an urgent judicial review seeking to protect the right to picket, following the introduction of the new coronavirus lockdown regulations in England. The case is brought against the…Read more…
Saving the lives of the workers who are saving our lives
UNISON is committed to making sure that workers’ rights are at the centre of procurement – looking after the workers who make the equipment that helps keep our members safe – and is running training…Read more…
CEC and NUJ Brussels at Southport DM2018 conference
During the NUJ DM2018 conference at Southport on Friday 21/04/2018, Cailin Mackenzie of CEC expressed anger at the fundamental human rights under threat. She said the union must work towards ensuring…Read more…
“All we want is democracy for all” Newham Mayoral Trigger
In last weeks letter page of the “Newham Recorder”. Cllr John Whitworth argues that following the unfairness and wrongdoing in the previous flawed process there should be an open selection to be the Labour Candidate in the 2018 Newham Mayoral local ele…Read more…
Bedroom tax victory
Charlotte and Jayson Carmichael have for years been fighting the bedroom tax, a government policy introduced in 2013 that penalises people in social housing for having an ‘under-occupied’ home….Read more…
Why the robot workplace damages workers and their organisations
Obsessive and unnecessary recording and reporting at work increases costs and places undue stress on staff. Coupled with new monitoring systems, workers are being turned into robots, before they are…Read more…
Overseas aid: definitely more about the politics than the money
I was discussing our local MP, Grant Shapps, with a neighbour on the train last week. What was he up to, we wondered, or rather, where had he disappeared to? Sadly, the question was answered in this morning’s Sunday Times (£) where he wrote a moving self-criticism of his failure as a Minister…Read more…