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Government again fails to address cost of living crisis

May 10, 2022By UNITElive

Unite has said that the government has once again consigned ordinary families to the scrapheap after today’s (May 10) Queen’s Speech setting out the government’s legislative agenda failed to include…Read more…

May 10, 2022UNITElive

Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech that delivers nothing

May 10, 2022By Dave Prentis blog

The Tories in Westminster won’t focus on what needs to be done to tackle the cost of living crisis, but on ‘the wrong things and the wrong time’

The article Blog: Get set for a Queen’s Speech…Read more…

May 10, 2022Dave Prentis blog

‘Corporate greed by corporate gangsters’

May 11, 2021By UNITElive

Unite members sent a loud and clear message at a protest on Wednesday (May 11) calling for the end of fire and rehire contracts. The Unite members, striking workers who face being forced onto…Read more…

May 11, 2021UNITElive

‘Nasty side of govt’

May 11, 2021By UNITElive

“The moves on voter ID that could see millions of young and poor people lose their vote alongside the plan to curtail the right to protest – long and dearly held in this country – should be ringing…Read more…

May 11, 2021UNITElive

Levelling up won’t mean anything without decent public services

May 11, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

Much-needed reforms missing from parliamentary agenda

The article Levelling up won’t mean anything without decent public services first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

May 11, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Radical reform not empty words needed on social care

May 11, 2021By Dave Prentis blog

Plan to fix care is needed right now

The article Radical reform not empty words needed on social care first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

May 11, 2021Dave Prentis blog

Fire and rehire protest ahead of Queen’s Speech

May 10, 2021By UNITElive

Workers under threat from fire and rehire pay cuts of up to £12,000 will join MPs on a boat on the river Thames tomorrow (May 11) to demand pernicious practice is outlawed in the Queen’s Speech….Read more…

May 10, 2021UNITElive

Fire and rehire ban call

May 6, 2021By UNITElive

Trade unions representing millions of UK workers and Labour MPs and Lords from across the country have issued a joint call for the government to ban fire and rehire as pressure builds for ministers…Read more…

May 6, 2021UNITElive

Don’t be fooled by the Conservatives’ festive promises for the NHS

Dec 19, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

Loosening the stranglehold on funding shouldn’t be mistaken for generosity

The article Don’t be fooled by the Conservatives’ festive promises for the NHS first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Dec 19, 2019Dave Prentis blog

Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover

Oct 14, 2019By Dave Prentis blog

Now isn’t the time for game playing or cheap political stunts

The article Queen’s Speech – public services will need ‘substantial investment’ to recover first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…

Oct 14, 2019Dave Prentis blog

Queen’s Speech: A failure to tackle the real problems Britain faces

May 18, 2016By Dave Prentis blog

A Conservative Party at war with itself, already out of ideas little over a year on from election day and a Prime Minister so afraid of his own shadow that he’s abandoned any semblance of a serious…Read more…

May 18, 2016Dave Prentis blog

Queen’s speech: We may have lost a battle – There is still a war to fight

May 29, 2015By UNISON Active

“Where there is discord may we bring harmony. Where there is error may we bring truth. Where there is doubt may we bring faith.  And where there is despair may we bring hope.” Remember that…Read more…

May 29, 2015UNISON Active

The seven deadly bills

May 28, 2015By UNITElive

The Tories may have run a vague and convoluted election campaign, but now that they’re in with a wafer-thin majority, prime minister David Cameron laid out his policy plans yesterday (May 28) , as…Read more…

May 28, 2015UNITElive

Bash, slash, cut and freeze

May 28, 2015By UNITElive

Bash the unions, slash welfare spending, cut benefits for the young, freeze in-work benefits and add a generous helping of deep austerity cuts. The Queen’s Speech shows the Tories are nasty again….Read more…

May 28, 2015UNITElive

Queen’s speech and Scotland briefing

May 27, 2015By UNISON Scotland

See UNISON Scotland’s policy briefing ‘Queen’s Speech: UK government programme and Scotland’ at http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/briefings/b065_PolicyBrief_QueensSpeech.pdfRead more…

May 27, 2015UNISON Scotland

A Queen’s speech that divides the nation

May 27, 2015By Dave Watson

Today’s Queen’s speech is motley collection of proposed bills that fails to address the big issues facing the UK. Far from being a plan for ‘working people’, it further concentrates power in the…Read more…

May 27, 2015Dave Watson

#QueensSpeech 2015: Referendum Bill raises yet more questions

May 27, 2015By Touchstone blog

The Queen’s Speech today was silent on the hugely important issue of the negotiating strategy the government intends to pursue ahead of the EU referendum, and few other questions were answered by the references to the Bill we expect to see published tomorrow. Speak softly and run like hell…Read more…

May 27, 2015Touchstone blog

More Right to Buy – what will go wrong

May 27, 2015By Touchstone blog

Right to Buy likely to go wrong Worryingly the Queen’s Speech confirms that there will be a bill to extend the Right to Buy to tenants in Housing Associations.  The TUC opposes this measure on two grounds; that the funding model of housing associations would be seriously damaged by such a…Read more…

May 27, 2015Touchstone blog

People are not your priority, Mr Cameron

May 27, 2015By UNITElive

Commenting on today’s Queen’s Speech, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey said,   “Given the profound challenges facing this nation, it is staggering that a priority for this government is…Read more…

May 27, 2015UNITElive

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