Cutting hospital beds would hit patient waiting lists warns UNISON
Waiting lists would grow and patients suffer.
Category: news releases
Job loss figures – UNISON response
Cutting jobs result in vital local services being hit.
Building a safe and confident future – UNISON response
Social workers and the public are one step closer.
TUC condemns gay adoption ruling
Commenting on the news today (Wednesday) that Catholic Care, a Leeds-based adoption agency, has won a high court appeal allowing it to ignore sexual orientation regulations and so exclude same-sex partners who wish to adopt, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
unionlearn welcomes skills’ boost
Commenting on the government’s announcement of a range of new skills policy initiatives, Tom Wilson, director of unionlearn, said: “One year on from the announcement of the New Jobs, New Industries Agenda, the government is demonstrating that positive government support for skills development can help build industry and help people in to jobs…”
Protest and strike action ballot at Northumberland College in job cuts row
Members of UCU will be demonstrating outside Northumberland College in Ashington at 12.30 tomorrow lunchtime. The union is also balloting its members for strike action in protest at the college's plans to sack all teaching staff and reemploy some of them on lower pay and with longer hours.
UCU criticises university’s decision to move meeting to building by road after learning of nursery kids’ protest
The University of Sussex has moved this afternoon's senate meeting at the last minute to the Chowen lecture theatre in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Children from the University of Sussex's nursery and crèche were due to hand out daffodils and protest leaflets to members of the institution's senate ahead of their 1.30pm meeting originally at Bramber House in the middle of campus.
Unionlearn promotes Equality for All at Conference in Bolton
Two hundred delegates gathered at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton to hear the positive impact unions are having by introducing their members to training and learning and increasing equality in the workplace. The conference at the Devere Whites hotel on March 17, heard how unionlearn are supporting projects across the region on issues such as; older workers; Mental Health in the workplace; The gender pay gap; Workplace cohesion; LGBT: Issues in the workplace; Development of a Cultural Awareness Toolkit
Government support for low carbon business will create jobs and growth
Commenting on Government plans announced today (Wednesday) for new carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities and the news that Yorkshire and the Humber is to be the UK's first low carbon economic area, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Future jobs must not be thrown away on early spending cuts, says TUC
Commenting on the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: