Plans to axe more than half the teaching support staff at two east London primary schools has prompted Unite the union to ballot its members for strike action. Unite has 10 members at the Colvestone…Read more…
‘Clapping doesn’t pay the bills’
Drivers and passenger assistants, who take disabled children to and from school in Hackney, have voted unanimously to strike over the failure of the council to make a one-off £500 Covid-19 payment…Read more…
‘Stop gap deal’
Londoners can breathe a sigh of relief after London mayor Sadiq Khan successfully negotiated a Transport for London (TfL) funding deal with central government which will keep public transport in the…Read more…
Punishing the poorest
Unite, which represents thousands of transport workers throughout London, has warned that the government’s proposed funding for Transport for London (TfL) is ‘punishing the poorest’ for the Covid-19…Read more…
‘Tiers’ of woe
When the government first announced its new three-tier system of lockdowns earlier this week, it was ostensibly meant to bring some clarity to a local lockdown system that had been marked by chaos…Read more…
‘Sad day for London’s travelling public’
Ride-hailing app Uber has won its court appeal and has been granted a new 18-month licence to operate in London this week. Unite slammed the decision after a judge upheld Uber’s appeal against…Read more…
Sodexo threatens sweeping redundancies at City University
UNISON will strongly resist Sodexo’s attempt to put workers out of a job
The article Sodexo threatens sweeping redundancies at City University first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Local lockdowns on the rise amid spike in cases
As the spectre of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic haunts the UK, more and more areas have had local lockdowns imposed, with parts of the north east being the latest area to face new…Read more…
End delay in crane accident investigation call
Unite has called on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to end its delay and publish its initial findings into a major crane accident last month in Bow, East London, which killed one person and…Read more…
Southbank Centre support call
The prospect of London’s Southbank Centre – the UK’s largest arts complex – not receiving a generous slice of the government’s £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts would be ‘a national…Read more…
London cash boost call
Boris Johnson was urged today (June 26) not to abdicate the government’s responsibilities to London and provide a cash injection to help the capital’s economy recover post-Covid-19. The call came…Read more…
Solidarity from London UNISON to New York AFSCME
This letter was sent to our sisters and brothers in New York who are members of the public service union, AFSCME, from Greater London UNISON, signed by our elected lay Convenor, Yvonne Green and our Regional Secretary, Maggi Ferncombe (with support of …Read more…
‘Resounding verdict’
The prospect of a London bus drivers’ strike later this year has moved dramatically closer as bus workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a consultative ballot. The…Read more…
UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Staff to benefit from improved, pay, pension and sickness allowances
The article UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Thousands receive pay rise after Living Wage hike
More than 200,000 workers are set to get a pay rise on Monday (November 11) after the charity the Living Wage Foundation upped its rate to £9.30 an hour. The Foundation, which annually sets…Read more…
Unfairly singled out?
Unite reasserted its solidarity with the Grenfell community and London firefighters today (October 29) after parts of the inquiry into the tragedy that criticise the London Fire Brigade were leaked…Read more…
‘Intransigent management’
About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council are to strike for five days in disgust over the way they have been treated, Unite said today (October 22). Unite said its members had…Read more…
‘Best city in the world to work’
Unite has today (July 29) welcomed the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s new ‘Good Work Standard’ as an excellent first step on the road to making work better for millions of Londoners. Unite is…Read more…
Leading the way
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first council in the capital to throw its weight behind Unite’s pioneering Construction Charter. Construction firms planning to work on…Read more…
“Murder graph shows how London killings compare to US cities” – the hypocrisy and cant of President Trump
The level of deaths from knife and gun crime in London and other major UK cities is simply unacceptable and we must do everything possible to reduce it. This of course includes reversing the 20, 000 Tory cuts in Police numbers and the 23% cut in police…Read more…