Yesterday the TUC released a report calling on the Chancellor to use the Autumn Financial Statement on Wednesday to significantly increase the amount going to a Migration Impacts Fund so that areas that have experienced industrial decline, cuts to services and significant recent increases in…Read more…
Health trust signs up to charter for workers with terminal illness
Southport and Ormskirk hospitals backs TUC Dying to Work campaign
The article Health trust signs up to charter for workers with terminal illness first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Belgium must vote no tomorrow to stop CETA
Tomorrow trade ministers from EU countries will meet in Luxembourg at the Foreign Affairs Council where they are due to decide whether to approve the EU-Canada trade deal known as CETA. The TUC and unions across the EU and Canada are calling for governments to oppose the deal. A ‘joint…Read more…
Victory for decency at work – Sports Direct will hold an independant review into its employment practices.
In what is also a victory for effective pension stewardship, “workhouse employer” Sports Direct agreed to hold an independent review into its awful working practices and governance.
See TUC press release below
“Trade Union Share Owners welcome Sport…Read more…
Ending QTS will damage morale and push people away from teaching
If you were following the coverage of TUC Congress earlier this week, you could be forgiven for thinking only one education issue was on the agenda: grammar schools. In the four days I spent at the…Read more…
UNISON activists’ work recognised with TUC awards at congress
Eastern convenor Darren Barber and vice president Margaret McKee honoured at annual congress
The article UNISON activists’ work recognised with TUC awards at congress first appeared on the…Read more…
‘We must fight for facility time – for our members and for our services’
UNISON president Eric Roberts tells TUC unions must make the case for a system which gets better outcomes for union members and employers
The article ‘We must fight for facility time – for our…Read more…
UNISON urges greater ambition in defending workers’ rights
Congress hears call to step up the fight in defence of union and workers’ rights during Brexit
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UNISON vows to campaign for midwives and their patients
Eleanor Smith makes pledge at TUC Congress alongside the Royal College of Midwives
The article UNISON vows to campaign for midwives and their patients first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
EU citizens’ right to remain & all workers’ right to respect
The TUC has submitted evidence to the British Future inquiry into the status of EU nationals in the UK. We are calling for the government to make a clear commitment to give citizens from all 27 EU countries living and working in the UK the right to remain. This is one of the five tests…Read more…
Nothing ever handed to us on a plate, TUC president tells congress
‘Let’s use our fighting spirit to organise, to campaign and to win’ UNISON’s Liz Snape urges delegates
The article Nothing ever handed to us on a plate, TUC president tells congress first appeared…Read more…
We can’t turn the clock back on Brexit, but let’s use the negotiations to build a better future, says UNISON’s Dave Prentis
Sunday 11 September 2016 For immediate release The government must use the Brexit negotiations to build a new, fairer Britain, and should start by throwing off the shackles of austerity, says UNISON…Read more…
“Sports Direct cannot be allowed to mark their own homework”
Check out the press release below from the TUC about rotten employer “Sports Direct” whose company AGM is tomorrow.
The BBC report here that Sports Direct are desperately trying to pretend that all is ok and they are going to change.
Such huma…Read more…
UNISON prepares to make its mark at TUC Congress
Key issues will feature in debate and congress will recognise the work of activists Darren Barber and Margaret McKee
The article UNISON prepares to make its mark at TUC Congress first appeared on…Read more…
ONS migration statistics show action on low pay and deregulation needed across Europe and at home
The Office for National Statistics today published figures on the number of migrants in the labour market up to the end of June. Given that this only captures information from a few days after the referendum, it’s not possible to read from these findings any impact of Britain’s vote to leave the…Read more…
Why has Britain stopped striking? Workers no longer feel empowered to act | Gregor Gall
With workers’ wages falling fast, it’s clear our country’s unions are not doing their job. Pernicious employers can be hit in the pocket with the right sort of action
Striking in Britain has now…Read more…
Why has Britain stopped striking? Workers no longer feel empowered to act | Gregor Gall
With workers’ wages falling fast, it’s clear our country’s unions are not doing their job. Pernicious employers can be hit in the pocket with the right sort of action
Striking in Britain has now…Read more…
Brexit top of UNISON agenda for TUC
‘The need for stability and reassurance has never been greater,’ says Dave Prentis
The article Brexit top of UNISON agenda for TUC first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
TUC found that between 2007 and 2015 in the UK, real wages fell by 10.4%, the joint lowest in OECD countries
I think this is one of the real reasons for Brexit. No wonder so many people feel angry and betrayed in the face of such a massive cut in wages.
Employment may be relatively high but evidently most of these jobs are insecure and have rotten…Read more…
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British wages fell by 10.4 percent between 2007 and 2015 new TUC analysis has found, lower than anywhere else in Europe except Greece. UK workers suffered the biggest drop in real wages…Read more…