This consultation will close at 5pm on 25 March 2024. As the recognised trade union, only Clarion UNISON members are being balloted.VOTE ACCEPT OR REJECTIf you do not have a ballot email Unison@clarionhg.comRead more…
Clarion UNISON Pay claim survey 2024/25: Have your Say on Pay
Hat tip Clarion UNISON Facebook page “Members should have received an invite to complete a survey yesterday. It will take 5 mins to complete & we will use it to inform this years claim. Please pass on to non member colleagues. The…Read more…
Wages ‘eroded over more than a decade’
Average pay growth rising above inflation in August for the first time in two years will be cold comfort for millions of workers who have suffered pay erosion for over a decade. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced on Thursday (October 17) that in the three months to August, annual pay growth rose by […]
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Staff at East of England landlord to strike for nine days over pay
Hat tip Clarion UNISON Facebook page “Solidarity to Unite Housing association members taking strike action over their pay cuts. Hopefully Clarion UNISON members will be taking similar action next month”. “Nearly 60 workers at Freebridge Comm…Read more…
Clarion UNISON Members to vote on action to save their Pensions & stop being fired.
On Friday this indicative strike ballot was sent to Clarion Housing Group UNISON Members being threatened illegally with either giving up their pensions or being fired (possibly even without being rehired). A full postal official ballot of all UN…Read more…
Raising pay for everyone
‘Raising pay for everyone’ was a motion submitted by agricultural branch Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and moved by Davorin Dobrovic. Davorin referred to TUC’s plan ‘Raising Pay for Everyone’ which centres around a plan for a high wage economy and a £15 minimum wage. The motion also called on conference to call on the TUC […]
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Industrial action agreed in Imperial College Greater London – tomorrow
To
Branch Committee at UNISON Imperial College branch,
The
Regional Convenor team have been updated on the successful ballot result and
strike action planned by your members over pay starting tomorrow.
As
the cost-of-living crisis worsen…Read more…
Clarion Housing Group – June Pensions and Pay update – strike ballots over breaking #pension promises and poverty pay
Hat tip https://www.facebook.com/clarionunisonDear Member,On Thursday last week Clarion confirmed that they intend to go ahead and close the Clarion legacy defined benefit pension schemes (not the Standard Life stakeholder fund most staff are mem…Read more…
Get Help with School Uniform costs – UNISON “there-for-you” fund : supporting members when it gets tough
Tonight at our UNISON London Housing Associations Branch Executive meeting, we discussed a number of key issues facing members – possible/probable strike action over pay, breaking of pension promises and trade union victimisation & bullying by a ma…Read more…
NO PAY OFFER for NHS staff in Northern Ireland! Strike Actionfor 24 hrs on Friday the 31st and Monday the 3rd of April.
“NO PAY OFFER for NHS staff in Northern Ireland! NHS staff in Northern Ireland will NOT be getting offered any pay rise . UNISON will be taking all out strike action for 24hrs on Friday the 31st and Monday the 3rd of April”.Let us all support thi…Read more…
“Trouble in Mill” Clarion Housing Group Pay and Pensions Disputes
1. Update on Pay dispute and ballotFollowing the rejection of the UNISON pay claim for 2023/24 and the imposition of pay cuts by Clarion (resulting in pay being cut in real terms by somewhere between 5 to 8.2% below inflation during the worse cos…Read more…
UNISON Community Seminar/Conference 2023 – Day 1
UNISON holds an annual Seminar and Conference for members who work in our Community Service Group (Housing Associations and voluntary sector). This year it was held in Bournemouth. Unexpectedly I stepped in to chair a workshop on pensions d…Read more…
UNISON London Ambulance Service (LAS) Strike: Picket outside their Waterloo Headquarters 10.2.23
After work this evening I went to the UNISON picket line outside the LAS headquarters in Waterloo, Central London. I went to show solidarity and support on behalf of Greater London UNISON Regional Council officers and my own Housing Associations …Read more…
FCA staff anger reaching tipping point
Unite has today (February 1) written to Nikhil Rathi CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority, the financial services regulator, to warn of widespread anger amid management’s refusal to discuss pay and staff morale with workers. A Unite survey of staff conducted in January 2023 reveals dissatisfaction and frustration amongst employees with over half considering leaving […]
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Getting ready for UNISON NHS strikes – 21.12.22
Picture from yesterday in Wanstead flats, East London, after the heaviest snowfall for many years alongside a potential picket, who will be supporting the UNISON NHS strike next week (Wednesday 21 December) against massive real term pay cuts for …Read more…
World Cup travellers facing Heathrow flight woe
Unite members employed by Dnata and Menzies at Heathrow will take three days of strike action beginning on Friday November 18, in a dispute over pay. The strike action will begin in the early hours of Friday and it will be completed in the early hours of Monday November 21. It will lead to disruption, cancellations and delays at […]
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Coffin makers go on strike
It’s an increasingly familiar story – workers described as “essential” at the height of the pandemic, then quickly forgotten as the cost of living crisis takes hold, are now taking a stand by going on strike. But the latest workforce to follow this trajectory had a particularly sombre – but crucial – duty as Britain’s […]
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Moment PM Rishi Sunak gets stern telling off to ‘try harder’ over nurses…
“The arrogance of @RishiSunak, thinking he can pose for a nice video clip at Croydon Hospital, whilst simultaneously cutting NHS workers pay in real terms!! Well done to this patient for calling him out!” #NHSPay #CROYDON (hat tip Joel Bodmer…Read more…
Vote Yes for the NHS – nhspay.org
It’s time to take a stand for your pay, your colleagues and the NHS – every vote is needed.Voting to take industrial action is a big step. But it’s time to take it. The public supports you – and so do your colleagues and your union.Your pay matte…Read more…
Pay squeeze continues
An unprecedented pay squeeze continues after new figures published today (October 11) show that real-terms pay has fallen by nearly 3 per cent in the three months to August. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that real-terms wages had dropped 2.9 per cent between June and August, only slightly less […]
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