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Union NewsUnite is backing today’s London demonstration by Turkish/Kurdish community organisation Day-Mer calling for more NHS funding. The protest at North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton at 4pm will be joined by members of the new Unite migrant, food retail and services branch which seeks t...
Sat, 8th Jan 2022
Usdaw has won at least £10 per hour basic rate for Sainsbury’s and Argos shopworkers in a ground-breaking pay deal – another step forward for the union’s New Deal for Workers campaign. Usdaw national officer Dave Gill said:“For some time we have been in discussions with Sainsbury’s about increasing...
Sat, 8th Jan 2022
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Win! CWU members secure 10% pay rise
CWU members working for Telefonica Retail have received a 10% increase in their base pay. The rise comes following discussions with the company in which both management and the union agreed the previous system of target-driven bonuses was working for neither business nor employees. CWU national off...
Sat, 8th Jan 2022
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Trade unions pay tribute to Jack Dromey
Former deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union died at home this morning...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
Union slams employer for failing to reinstate Jonathan Duxbury, despite being ordered to by an Employment Tribunal...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
Members take action over the ripping up of staffing arrangements the union claims would wreck drivers' work-life balance...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
GMB members take second day of action over pay...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
A typical carer would have to work for 173 years to earn the same money an average CEO scoops in just 12 months, GMB analysis of High Pay Centre data has revealed. Even someone earning the UK median average wage would have to toil for more than a century to take home an average CEO annual salary....
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
Unite members warn further action will be taken if no progress is made with pay negotiations ...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
Nautilus International is celebrating after successfully lobbying the government to exempt seafarers from criminal prosecution who are required to rescue people at sea. The news comes just days after PCS and Care4Calais announced they were challenging the lawfulness of the Home Office pushback poli...
Fri, 7th Jan 2022
More than of surveyed teachers said they do not have access to a CO2 monitor in their classroom...
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
GMB says Eastbourne Borough Council plans to use "unauthorised labour" to cover striking workers...
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
Rail unions have warned the government against using temporarily-reduced train timetables as an excuse to make permanent cuts to the UK’s railways. The Rail Delivery Group has confirmed that train operators are now asking people to check before they travel as, for many passengers, temporary r...
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
Union works with Care4Calais to challenging the lawfulness of the Home Office policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK...
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
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NHS “running on empty” because government refuses to address staffing crisis, says UNISON
UNISON says the NHS is “running on empty” because the government refuses to address the staffing crisis. Responding to the publication today of the Health and Social Care Committee’s Clearing the NHS backlog caused by the pandemic report, UNISON head of health Sara Gorton said: “S...
Thu, 6th Jan 2022
Frances O'Grady says government scheme will reach only 1% of key workers ...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
Prospect members take action over pay...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
Unite members take action over pay...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
Unite has claimed a ground-breaking regrading deal for Plymouth City Council’s HGV drivers is a ‘wake-up’ call for other local authorities to hike up pay rates in 2022 so there are enough drivers available to keep refuse collections running smoothly. The union said it had negotiated a job reclassif...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
Union also supports attempt to place a statutory duty on the prison service and private prison operators to minimise violence...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
‘Shameful’ figures reveal more than a thousand serious injuries at Amazon sites have been reported to health and safety bodies since 2016, a GMB investigation has found. Disturbingly, the number of injuries reported to health and safety bodies is rapidly increasing. 294 were reported in the finan...
Wed, 5th Jan 2022
Paddy Lillis says the Labour leader understands the needs and concerns of working people ...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
Paddy Lillis says the Labour leader understands the needs and concerns of working people ...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
Dave Ward says Desmond Swayne is a "clown" after Twitter facemask outrage ...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
Scotland’s teachers have faced soaring levels of workload throughout the pandemic. The results of a survey of more than 16,000 teachers are published at a time when teachers are being offered a significant real-terms cut in their level of pay by COSLA and the Scottish government. Amongst the key wo...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
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Eduction unions call on government to take urgent measures to protect schools from Omicron variant
Unions are calling on the English government to take urgent measures to protect schools from the Omicron variant of Covid-19. As schools re-open today after the Christmas break, six education unions – ASCL, GMB, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU and UNISON – have released the following statement: “There has...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
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Education unions call on government to take urgent measures to protect schools from Omicron variant
Unions are calling on the English government to take urgent measures to protect schools from the Omicron variant of Covid-19. As schools re-open today after the Christmas break, six education unions – ASCL, GMB, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU and UNISON – have released the following statement: “There has...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
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TSSA warns of national rail strike
Union says it not hesitate to ballot members over compulsory redundancies and a drop in living standards ...
Tue, 4th Jan 2022
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Our most-read stories of 2021: from 10 to 1
From the election of a new GMB general secretary to unions calling on the government to move to online learning...
Fri, 31st Dec 2021
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Our most-read stories of 2021: from 20 to 11
From ASLEF's Tube strike to Unite lorry drivers 12% pay rise, via the bizarre trolling of CWU leader Dave Ward...
Fri, 31st Dec 2021
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Our most-read stories of 2021: from 30 to 21
From the NEU's emergency teachers' meeting to GMB's Wilko sick pay strike...
Thu, 30th Dec 2021