Second round consultation setting out the principles and propositions that will underpin rule changes necessary to put the settlement in place
The article Consultation on political fund changes…Read more…
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Second round consultation setting out the principles and propositions that will underpin rule changes necessary to put the settlement in place
The article Consultation on political fund changes…Read more…
Today (Wednesday July 26) is an historic victory for justice as the Supreme Court ruled that the government’s decision to introduce tribunal fees was illegal. The fees were first introduced in…Read more…
Brighton delegates told: ‘They want to make us an endangered species. But if they push us, we push back.’
The article Battle continues against ‘restrictive and draconian’ Trade Union Act…Read more…
The government has “wrapped Brexit up in fake patriotic posturing” and must not be allowed to turn Britain into “bargain basement tax haven”, Jeremy Corbyn said today. Speaking at the Road to…Read more…
In a victory for the trade union movement, a motion to even further restrict the right to strike for workers in defined ‘critical national services’ was roundly defeated in the Commons today (January…Read more…
Working people can take little comfort from Theresa May’s promise this week to transfer over rights when Britain leaves the EU. There may be a change at the top but, on workers’ rights, the…Read more…
Rule changes need to be be submitted for NDC 2017 to comply with Trade Union Act regulations coming into force in February 2018
The article Consultation on political fund review: December-January…Read more…
‘We should make Eric proud by continuing on in the union – let’s make and keep this the best union’
The article NEC pays tribute to Eric Roberts first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Threshold for ‘important public services’ takes effect on 1 March; political fund opt-in rules transition period starts on same day
The article Government sets out who will be covered by 40% strike…Read more…
As someone working in digital services in trade unions, the legal ban on using online voting for union statutory ballots has always wound me up. So I’m very pleased at the news that the government are finally starting their promised independent review into online voting for unions. Sir Ken Knight,…Read more…
Union sets up lay working group to develop proposals on changing funds to opting in system, required by Trade Union Act
The article UNISON starts preparing for political fund change first appeared…Read more…
The government’s pernicious Trade Union Act, while an attack on all working people, will disproportionately impact on women. That’s why Congress carried a motion yesterday (September 12) that…Read more…
Congress today (September 13) stood united against the government’s pernicious Trade Union Act, which threatens the most fundamental rights of working people. On the third day of the TUC…Read more…
The Conservative Party leadership election has been rapid, dramatic and completely bewildering. And now with the withdrawal of the last remaining challenger to Theresa May it looks like there won’t even be a vote at all. But there’s one thing in this campaign that has been overlooked in…Read more…
Not a single government spoke up in the UK government’s defence when the ILO Committee on the Application of Standards considered whether the Trade Union Act was out of line with ILO core…Read more…
The annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is taking place during the first half of June in Geneva, and the TUC’s delegate Stephen Russell has already blogged on the…Read more…