NHS pay fight: unite for 15%!
Cross-union strike committees should be elected to unite the unions behind 15% and prepare coordinated action
Unison left splits after election defeat
The left should agree a common slate for NEC elections based on based on building a rank-and-file led class struggle union
Vote Paul Holmes – but organise the rank and file!
Unison General Secretary election.
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Solidarity with Sodexo workers at Birkbeck!
Threats of large-scale redundancies among outsourced catering staff at Birkbeck have sparked a campaign of resistance from Birkbeck Unison.
Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools
For parents’, students’ and teachers’ control of health and safety in our schools.
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Grassroots Fight for 15% can Win by Escalating Action
Rallies and demonstrations are due to take place across the country, as part of a growing grassroots revolt by nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise
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Thousands march in support of nurses’ fight for 15%
With public support behind them, nurses and health workers can lead the way in fighting for a pay rise for all public sector employees.
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Leeds healthworkers join NHS fight for 15%
Hundreds joined the nationwide day of action calling for justice for NHS nurses and health workers excluded from a recent public sector pay rise.
Tower Hamlets Labour declares war on council workers
The Unison branch at Tower Hamlets Council organised a solid three day strike against the unilateral mass sacking of the entire work force.
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Unions and Labour Councils must step up the fight against unsafe re-opening of schools
How we can stop the schools reopening on 1 June and put public health before private wealth
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Motion: Workers’ action against the covid-19 pandemic
A motion passed by Lambeth Unison’s branch committee
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School closures: skeleton service or community organisation?
The vulnerable will suffer most in any social – and economic – lockdown. We must insist schools apply a broad definition to the terms of which students and families are ‘vulnerable’ based on need, not the dictates of an uncaring, neoliberal government seeking to protect business over workers and the poor.
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UNISON members angry as leaders back Starmer
UNISON members were informed by email on 8 January that “UNISON backs Keir Starmer to be next Labour leader”. This
How Britain’s biggest union undermines migrant workers’ rights
Over the past seven years cleaners and security guards at London’s most prestigious universities have been fighting a relentless and courageous struggle for basic rights: the London Living Wage, sickness, holiday and maternity pay, workplace conditions, and end to contracting out and union recognition.
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Unison Ballots School Staff For Action
After years of inaction, Unison members finally have the chance to send a message to the Tories that workers are prepared to fight the destruction of our education system
Defrosting Unison
By Jeremy Dewar LOCAL GOVERNMENT officers, health workers and school support staff will gather in Brighton in mid-June ostensibly to