Serious questions need to be asked about the reasons behind today’s (October 7) announcement that large scale redundancies are on the cards at the GKN plant in Yeovil which makes airframes for…Read more…
Teaching assistants urge public to support their dispute with Derby council
Derby teaching assistants – striking today (Thursday) for the eighth time since the city council cut their pay in June – are taking their campaign into the community to get the public to lobby…Read more…
Delegates highlight danger of further privatisation in probation
The National Probation Service has proposed extending the use of private providers in approved premises
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‘Out of the blue’ job losses
The threat to 600 manufacturing jobs at OneSubsea, the Leeds oil and gas engineering firm, reinforces the need for a strong industrial strategy to protect such skilled jobs, Unite said yesterday…Read more…
Policing on the cheap?
UNISON conference condemns replacing police staff with low-paid workers and unpaid volunteers
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Delegates highlight changes to probation service negotiation
Police and justice conference debate the changing nature of negotiation
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Black worker representation in the police and justice sector ‘going in the wrong direction’
A white applicant to the police force has a better chance of getting a job than a Black applicant in more than two thirds of UK forces, UNISON’s police and justice conference heard today.
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‘United, we can win‘ says Dave Prentis as he joins Derby picket
‘You are the union’ general secretary tells striking teaching assistants in Derby, battling imposed 25% pay cut
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How to avoid being Fujitsu Voice-less
The company plans to terminate Fujitsu Voice in January, cutting employees’ rights in relation to redundancy, information and consultation. Click…Read more…
Teaching Assistants deserve better than being pushed into poverty by a Labour council
We’ll continue to fight for and alongside striking staff in Derby to win them the pay deal they deserve. And I want to see Durham teaching assistants voting for strike action too, so we can show…Read more…
Theresa May is not a foolish politician. She knows exactly what she is doing
Politics is not an exercise in wish fulfilment. Actions are what matters. Poverty can’t be willed into extinction merely by asking for it. Nor fairness introduced to the economy through platitudes….Read more…
And the con goes on…
Unite warned of a continuing con trick as it responded to prime minister Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party conference today (Wednesday October 5). Responding to May’s first…Read more…
Poor odds for workers
Unite will be protesting outside bookmaker William Hill’s shops in London, Birkenhead, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Gloucester and Southampton on Friday (October 7), as part…Read more…
FE consultation on employer’s offer now open
Members in further education have until 4 November to respond to the consultation on the employer’s ‘first and final’ pay offer
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Bradford mental health workers strike over imposed shifts
Company fails to negotiate over plans for ‘unfair’ work pattern which could see transferred UNISON members on call for 14 hours a day
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Still time to talk plea
About 150 workers at a chemical factory in East Lancashire will take industrial action in a dispute over imposed changes to their terms and conditions. The Unite members including manual…Read more…
The spirit of Cable Street must live on today, now more than ever
It’s 80y years since one of the pivotal moments in modern British history: key to the anti-fascist struggle; ky to how our country held firm against the rising tide of hate stalking Europe ; key to…Read more…
UNISON member goes topless in Birmingham for public services
Liz Potter’s double mastectomy following breast cancer left her determined to speak up for the NHS
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Tory conference – more weasel words than workers party
Theresa May entered Downing Street three months ago promising to do things differently. She was going to stand up for working people. She was going to be on the side of ordinary families. It’s a…Read more…
Dispute settled
The pay dispute at Menzies Distribution, which had threatened deliveries to newsagents across the UK, has been settled after workers voted to accept an improved offer, Unite said on Friday (September…Read more…