Finance – Community Trade Union

What are your rights during a union recognition campaign?

Jack Wholey — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:19:57 +0000

No matter what industry or sector you work in, recognition is a crucial part of workplace life to enhance your pay and terms and conditions. As a part of this, we may need to campaign on your and your colleagues’ behalf to secure recognition with your employer. Whether you’re a union rep looking to secure recognition, or a Community member supporting a recognition campaign, it is crucial to…

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Voluntary vs. statutory union recognition: what’s the difference?

Jack Wholey — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:04:21 +0000

When workers collectively come together to demand a stronger voice in the workplace, union recognition is one of the most important steps to take. With recognition in place, employers must formally acknowledge a trade union, or multiple trade unions, as the representative body to collectively bargain on behalf of their workforce on pay, policy, terms and conditions and more. This can be achieved…

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Having a conversation about union recognition with your employer

Jack Wholey — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:19:02 +0000

Talking about anything union with your employer can be a daunting prospect, especially when it comes to recognition — but it doesn’t have to be. As a modern trade union, Community embraces working with GOOD employers, and we welcome any and all employers to speak with us and our members about the benefits of recognition. In fact, union recognition is quite common across every sector of the UK…

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What is union recognition and why is it important?

Jack Wholey — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:08:01 +0000

While Community achieves wins for our members in various ways, through individual support, policy changes and campaigns, one thing is vital in helping us win for our members – union recognition. Through recognition, we can achieve much more collectively for our members, and make a large impact in the workplaces we represent. In this blog, we’ll explore what union recognition actually is…

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Trade unions or staff associations: Which is better?

Jack Wholey — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:27:33 +0000

Across UK workplaces, many organisations have staff associations in place to represent employee interests. While this may sound similar to what trade unions offer, they actually differ significantly in their structure, powers and effectiveness. It is important to understand how these differences are crucial in not only making important decisions about your rights as an individual, but also as a…

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Organise your workplace through Spider Web Organising

Tiffany Gillies — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:38:04 +0000

As we approach Halloween, a season of webs and shadows, we can consider the potential of spider web organising as a tactic for union reps. Like a spider weaving its intricate web, our efforts to organise and recruit members must be strategic, interconnected, and resilient. Spider web organising is about using each connection within a workplace or community as a thread to build a stronger…

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Changes to flexible working law and what do they mean for you?

Jack Wholey — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:00:24 +0000

As of April 2024, multiple changes have been made to the Employments Rights (Flexible Working) Act 2023, as well as a separate piece of secondary legislation to improve the rights of anyone making a flexible working request, and make it easier for any employee to request flexible working arrangements in England, Scotland and Wales. Flexible working is a way of working to suit an employee’s…

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Engaging with management around the menopause

Jacqueline Thomas — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:27:49 +0000

How do we ensure that management adhere to and take into consideration how they treat their employees who suffer from menopausal symptoms? Simple – we educate and engage with management and employers to ensure fairness is delivered for anyone suffering the long-term effects of the menopause. While representing a member in my branch who had been unwell on several occasions, she was diagnosed with…

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Focusing on equalities

Richard Fraser — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:05:20 +0000

In the autumn issues of our sector magazines, we focus on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Community is committed to helping to create working environments and cultures where every individual can feel safe, with a sense of belonging, and feel empowered to achieve their full potential – where you can bring your whole, true, authentic self to work. Equality and diversity go beyond the…

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It’s all about teamwork

Richard Fraser — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:06:00 +0000

In our working lives, we are all part of a team. Even if we work from home or are self-employed, we all need the expertise or specialist skills of others to support us. When someone says ‘school’, you might say ‘teacher’; when someone says hard hat and overalls, you might say ‘steelworks’. But what does the ‘finance worker’ you are thinking of look like and what’s their background?

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