The one-off payment is worth at least £1,655 for full-time health workers, including porters, domestics, sterile services and catering staff working in the NHS. Mitie applied for funding for the pay […]
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“As Marco Longhi MP said in Parliament, Mitie wants the taxpayer to cover the payments. “But with millions in profits, Mitie should stop dragging their feet and waiting for the […]
“The whole £1,600 COVID payment has just unified people even more, to be fair.” After lunch at UNISON Centre, the group visited Mitie HQ at the Shard, before going on to […]
Employer announces it will return the workers to national pay, terms and conditions after last week’s industrial action
Together with the GMB and Unite, the move comes after the council vowed to end the contract with Sandwell Leisure Trust in the wake of its decision to fire and rehire all staff
UNISON members set to take to the picket lines for a sixth time in continued fight against their employer’s fire and rehire tactics
West Midlands members continue their long-running action over contracts
Members from Portway Lifestyle Centre and Tipton Leisure Centre picketed outside their workplaces after […]
Leisure trust that is set to run the aquatic centre for next year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is targeting staff while having millions in the bank
West Midlands trust criticised for reimposing parking charges that were meant to be free during the pandemic
A homeless hostel team leader talks about how the coronavirus pandemic has made her and her colleagues’ jobs harder than ever
Elsewhere, UNISON responded to the government’s consultation on proposed changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) warning them to “think again”. The […]
Bringing the 111 and 999 services together should lead to “real improvements” for both patients and staff
Members in UNISON and Unite had voted 100% to take industrial action before council regraded them
I didn’t know what the framework was.” This was in Easter 2017. Then she noticed that a UNISON sixth form and FE college seminar, in Leicester, included a workshop on term-time working, and […]