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UNISON calls on EU governments to strike out controversial clause from draft trade treaty

Clauses in the draft EU/US trade deal – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – that would allow big corporations to sue the UK government must be scrapped or the draft treaty could end up harming the NHS, says UNISON today (Monday) as EU trade commissioner arrives in London to give a speech on the treaty talks.

Article, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Play fair, FIFA and Qatar told

UNISON higher education conference demands fair treatment for World Cup workers

Article on the UNISON National site.

A view of the world: Nicaragua

Despite poverty, Nicaraguans are no longer down in the dumps

Magazine on the UNISON National site.

Walk the Belfast hills to raise money for Gaza’s children

The UNISON International Solidarity Group and the UNISON Royal Hospital branch are organising the seventh annual Feile Walk on 8 August

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON urges the government to show compassion and accept more refugees

‘The daily images of desperate men, women and children fleeing the escalating violence have shocked the world’

Article, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Campaign against TTIP gains momentum

Councils sign up to support campaign against transatlantic trade deal that threatens democracy

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

It is our ‘humanitarian and moral duty’ to act over refugee crisis

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis speaks at TUC race relations fringe

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

March for the climate, justice and jobs in November

They will be part of the build-up to the latest round of UN climate change talks, taking place in Paris in December. Mr Prentis writes in the blog that the talks are "an […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Gloria Mills elected as ETUC women’s committee president

Union congratulates senior equalities officer on new role in European trade unionism

Article on the UNISON National site.

‘Our hearts go out to Paris’: message to French unions

“We stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers,” says message to French unions

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Paris climate demos cancelled – join the marches in the UK

Demonstrations and marches cancelled after Paris attacks

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON takes the ‘route of shame’ in defence of workers’ rights

The union marks Human Rights Day by targeting countries that are the ‘worst’ abusers of trade union rights

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Refugee Christmas appeals

The UNISON NEC and president Wendy Nichols have endorsed the following five organisations, which branches or individuals might consider supporting. They are working on help for the the […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Remembering the Holocaust

On Holocaust Memorial Day, light a candle as a sign of remembrance and hope

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

“My employer ‘gave’ me to someone else”

Through its International Development Fund, UNISON is supporting efforts to protect Indian workers from exploitation when migrating to the Gulf

Blogs, Magazine on the UNISON National site.