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Each day throughout the holiday season, UniteLive will feature one of our twelve stories of the year. On the first day of Christmas, UniteLive looks back on how one branch in the East Midlands used a unique strategy to recruit young people. Unite is always exploring new ways to organise workers, and in particular reach […]
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Members from Unite Hospitality held fringe meetings at this week’s Sector Conferences to highlight their current campaigns, and tell members from other sectors how they can support them. The group also held a highly active stall throughout the week and explained some of the issues facing workers across the sector to delegates. On Monday (18 […]
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Hospitality workers across the east of England are being invited to wake up and smell the coffee as the region launched a new Unite Hospitality branch. The Unite Hospitality East Anglia Branch was launched last month and drew in lots of new members whilst also holding branch elections. The new branch team are raring to […]
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This young workers month, let’s listen and support one of the fastest growing groups of our membership and ensure they don’t pay the price of the pandemic
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Young members talk about their concerns, their hopes and their achievements at national delegate conference
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Conference hears how young workers are often denied training because of austerity, yet this will mean a skills shortage in the future
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Health delegates embrace the commitments of UNISON’s year of young workers
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UNISON launches #OneWageAnyWage campaign is it celebrates 20 years of the national minimum wage
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Nominations for the 2019 Eric Roberts Award are open now – and need to be submitted by 28 December
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Conference agrees to organise and recruit more workers under 25
The article Making 2018 the year for young workers first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Scottish young members win organising award for work against bullying
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If you’re under 25, this election matters because it is about securing your future. A massive 2.4m young people are currently missing from the voter register, more than enough votes to swing the election outcome drastically in any direction they chose. We know that turnout for 18-24 year olds has…Read more…
New minimum wage rates come into force across UK, including ‘national living wage’
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This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. The final of our series is voice in the workplace. As TUC Young Worker’s Month ends, we reflect on what…Read more…
This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. Being in low paid, insecure work with limited opportunities for progression is pretty tough. Having a child…Read more…
This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. Today’s is bullying and harassment. There’s no concept I hate more than ’banter’. For me, ‘banter’…Read more…
The government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations and will increase all national minimum wage rates from 1st April 2017. The government’s national living wage (introduced in April of this year) will go up by 4.2%, a 30p increase, to £7.50 an hour. That’s good, but there’s a fly…Read more…
This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. Young people’s experience of work is increasingly dominated by precarious working conditions. It might be…Read more…
On the 1st April 2016 the Government brought in the ‘National Living Wage’ – essentially a slight increase on the national minimum wage, with a different name. Employers must now pay workers at least…Read more…
This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. In comparison to young employees in general, Britain’s young core workers find getting ahead at work harder….Read more…