Thousands of Tower Hamlets Council staff have voted to take industrial action to stop managers forcing through contract changes, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Council employees decided overwhelmingly to walk out over changes due to take effect in mid-April. UNISON is now working with staff to determine the timing and scale of their action. Council staff […]
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Regional Convenor Yvonne Green honoured by Black members’ conference for going ‘above and beyond’ Yvonne Green was presented with the 2020 Nelson Mandela Award at this weekend’s Black members’ conference, by vice president Sian Stockham, for going “above and beyond” her duties toward Black members. “Yvonne is an inspiration to us all proving what can […]
LGBT+ History Month, observed in February each year, is a chance to increase visibility and celebrate the lives and achievements of our diverse LGBT+ community. UNISON looks back on our own LGBT+ history to see how far we have come, remind us of the progress made in pursuit of LGBT+ equality, and to recommit to […]
A thousand low-paid porters, cleaners and catering staff at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London are today (Thursday) celebrating after winning the right to be directly managed by the NHS, says UNISON. From 1 April the staff – who work in the trust’s five hospitals across the capital – will no longer be employed […]
Successful campaign follows others at universities in London Cleaning staff at Birkbeck, University of London have won their long-running struggle to have their jobs transferred back in-house. Yesterday was their first day of direct employment since the service was outsourced in the late 1990s. The workers will benefit from improved conditions, plus access to the […]
Pay, pension and holiday rights to be upgraded Hundreds of outsourced UCL staff are celebrating after UNISON secured the same pay, pension and annual leave rights as directly employed workers doing the same jobs. From 1 December 2019 – as part of a phased retreat by UCL – porters, security and catering workers will receive […]
On Friday 4th October the London region hosted the 16th Annual Health Training Conference, with over 200 delegates from health branches attending. There was a varied agenda, with speakers from Westminster council’s Integrated Gangs unit and Redthread to name but a few. (L-R) Lib Peck GLA, John Poyton CEO Redthread, Dorcas Gatwa Westminster Council’s IGU, […]
Unison were proud to join library workers at their staff seminar in Hounslow House, on Thursday 17th. Hounslow Unison Libraries Convenor James Marshall, and Local Organiser Ellen Murphy, spent the morning talking to Library staff about the challenges facing them with reduced staff numbers and the outsourcing of library services happening around the country, particularly […]
This year the union launched it’s first ever Green Week, with branches across the UK organising a week of activities calling for urgent action to tackle climate change. Here’s some pictures of what happened in the region: Students at Kings University showing their solidarity for the Climate strikers Students at City University Students at Greenwich […]
UNISON Greater London joined the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to launch the Good Work Standard at City Hall today. Speaking at the launch Maggi Ferncombe, Regional Secretary said: ‘UNISON is extremely proud to have worked with the Mayor on this initiative. I’m also very proud to be addressing you as a Londoner, who lives […]