Further education committee agrees to talks, but further strikes remain a possibility
The article UNISON and Scottish FE employers to talk at Acas first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Derby council is escalating pay dispute with school support staff ‘pointlessly’, says UNISON
Thursday 20 October 2016 For immediate release UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by up to…Read more…
Fujitsu Manchester ballot result
Members have voted for strike action and action short of strike over pay, pensions and job security Unite has declared…Read more…
Time for rhetoric is over
The government’s new ‘industrial strategy’ needs to kick-in immediately, as 221 jobs at the Yeovil GKN plant, which makes airframes for helicopters, are set to be made redundant. Unite today…Read more…
Durham teaching assistants back strike action, announces UNISON
Durham teaching assistants have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in the long-running dispute over cuts to their pay, their union UNISON has announced today (Wednesday). UNISON held a ballot…Read more…
Christmas chaos coming to airports?
Christmas travel disruption could be on the cards at four UK airports, unless baggage carrier Aviator manages to transfer about 1,700 staff to other handlers. Unite understands that Scandinavian…Read more…
Award winning work on mental health in Redditch and Bromsgrove
General secretary Dave Prentis visits branch to see first hand the practical help and support provided to members
The article Award winning work on mental health in Redditch and Bromsgrove first…Read more…
It’s time to talk for a change
Days like today make me so proud to be UNISON, and of everything our activists and members do to make each other’s lives better, alongside helping our communities every single day
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UNISON starts preparing for political fund change
Union sets up lay working group to develop proposals on changing funds to opting in system, required by Trade Union Act
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Give Heathrow the greenlight
Today (Monday October 17) representatives from Unite delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street calling on the prime minister, Theresa May, to give the greenlight to Heathrow’s expansion. The…Read more…
Reading council should stop dragging its heels on equal pay
Today, Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales to have never settled an equal pay claim – will face 60 women in court, challenging them to cough up the £1.5 million they…Read more…
‘Social care is at a tipping point’
Check our campaign briefing for SOS Day on 16 Novembers for ways you can get involved
The article ‘Social care is at a tipping point’ first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Women drag last equal pay claim council to court, says UNISON
Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales never to settle an equal pay claim – will today (Monday) be challenged in court by more than 60 women owed over £1.5m because they were…Read more…
Women drag last equal pay claim council to court, says UNISON
14 October 2016 Embargo: 00.01hrs Monday 17 October 2016 Reading council – the only local authority in England and Wales never to settle an equal pay claim – will today (Monday) be challenged in…Read more…
Strike take off
Business flyers using London’s City airport face severe disruption when award winning cabin crew working for CityJet strike for five days in a dispute over proposed pay cuts of up to 50 per cent….Read more…
Wall of silence
The wall of managerial silence since last week’s announcement of large scale redundancies at the GKN plant in Yeovil has been branded ‘a disgrace’ by Unite, the country’s largest union. The…Read more…
Enter talks
Unite is warning that a 48 hour strike involving London bus workers at the bus operator Tower Transit will go ahead on Wednesday 19 October unless the firm re-enters meaningful talks. Plans…Read more…
Lloyds review is “counter-productive”
Lloyds Bank workers are suffering under a “counter-productive” cuts agenda Unite said, after the bank announced 1,340 more job losses this week (October 14). The redundancies will effect…Read more…
Held to account
Unite has welcomed as ‘fitting’ Labour’s creation of a brand new post of shadow steel minister. In a move designed to turn up the heat on the government Gill Furniss has been appointed to the…Read more…
Together we can end the injustice of massive pay cuts for those who care for our kids
I will be back in Durham, joining the picket lines on the first day of industrial action and I know the whole of our union will give their support and solidarity to Durham members as they have to…Read more…