This is the speech I made as a UNISON delegate at last months TUC Congress about “Affordable Homes for Key Workers”. President, Congress, John Gray, from UNISON speaking in support of Composite 7. This motion highlights the profound imp…Read more…
Value
For thirteen years they weakened us.Cut doctors and nurses who treated us.Devalued social workers who cared for us. Bosses mocked and taunted us.Self-employment became bogus.Secure jobs – precarious. Cyclists were turned into modern day pack horses.Eight hours to zero they texted us.In warehouses they tagged us. For ten years we’ve had austeritypushing us into poverty.China […]
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Let’s show gratitude to NHS and other public service staff on Thank You Day
Hundreds of thousands in public services deserve recognition
The article Let’s show gratitude to NHS and other public service staff on Thank You Day first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Remembered and honoured
Tomorrow (Wednesday 28 April) on International Workers’ Memorial Day, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, will join Unite families who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 to walk the memorial wall…Read more…
‘Not a real living wage’
Low-paid workers will have little to celebrate today (April 1) as a minimum wage rise of 19p an hour is rendered meaningless by rising living costs such as increases in council tax, and energy and…Read more…
The year time stood still
The older we get, the quicker the years seem to fly by, but 2020 was a clear exception – it was the year time stood still. And for key workers – from NHS staff to bus workers, supermarket staff to…Read more…
Budget ‘must unite the whole country’
Ahead of the Budget on Wednesday (March 3), Unite is reiterating its calls to chancellor Rishi Sunak to take urgent and decisive action to protect health, jobs and incomes. The Budget will be the…Read more…
Pay delay for council workers a ‘disgrace’
Local government employers must speed up the pay process so that council workers and school staff – who have sacrificed so much during the pandemic – don’t have to wait months longer for a pay rise….Read more…
You can put pressure on the government -Give all key workers a pay rise
‘Please follow the guidelines’
Yet more frontline bus driver heroes have died in this current wave of the Covid pandemic.
Earlier today (January 25) Unite paid tribute to ‘well-loved and respected’ Brighton bus driver Christopher…Read more…
Wigan and Leigh rehab workers win long-running dispute
We Are With You staff will now be paid in line with NHS pay rates until at least 2022 – and the company has also recognised UNISON
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‘Kick in the teeth’
Unite has slammed the government for considering a public sector pay freeze for 5.5m workers, after reports today (November 20) suggested that public sector workers excluding frontline NHS staff may…Read more…
A ‘united’ kingdom?
When the government first imposed a UK-wide lockdown in March, Britons were plunged into a great unknown – for the first time in most people’s lives, they were suddenly separated from everyone and…Read more…
Homerton Hospital workers secure living wage and sick pay victory
But outsourced staff still have much to right for, says UNISON
The article Homerton Hospital workers secure living wage and sick pay victory first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
“We can build a better society”
Key workers have got us through this. Let’s build a better society for them. We can’t go back to business as usual. Agree? Sign this.
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Keeping key workers safe while travelling must remain paramount, says UNISON
Avoiding non-essential travel will to avoid second spike
The article Keeping key workers safe while travelling must remain paramount, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Call for minute’s silence to honour all workers who have died from coronavirus
International Workers’ Memorial Day has renewed focus
The article Call for minute’s silence to honour all workers who have died from coronavirus first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
One Housing Group suspends rent rises for West Ham key workers
Good news that One Housing Group has agreed to suspend the imposition of up to 40% rent rises and new contracts on a key workers scheme near West Ham station. Well done for the tenants for standing up for themselves and for One Housing Group for (belat…Read more…
40% RENT UP – CAN’T PAY – WILL STAY! Message To One Housing Group
Photo from last night’s planning and action meeting of the Newham key workers facing massive rent rises by the Charitable Landlord, One Housing Group. The tenants are living in housing blocks that were handed over to the Housing Association in 1997 by …Read more…
“West Ham tenants’ anger over 40 per cent rent hike”
“A group of tenants is up in arms after their landlord announced a 40 per cent rent hike…
Eve Whitcombe and Jamil Khair (picture right) will have to pay a 40 per cent rent hike or leave their home of the past 18 years. Picture: Jon King
The neighbou…Read more…