Luton airport passengers face disruption to their Christmas travel plans as workers employed by contractor Wilson James take industrial action in an effort to earn more than poverty pay. Strike…Read more…
Aston Martin industrial action threat
Industrial action is threatened at the prestige Aston Martin carmaker as workers face losing about £100,000 in retirement income if the defined benefit (career average) scheme is closed from February…Read more…
Stagecoach National Express takeover latest
Unite, which represents tens of thousands of workers across the bus, coach and rail industry, has warned that workers must not suffer following the announcement today (December 14) that National…Read more…
Sandwell Leisure Trust employees take further strike action in row over contracts
The fourth day of action in the last 12 months comes on the back of proposals for more cuts to terms and conditions
The article Sandwell Leisure Trust employees take further strike action in row…Read more…
Unite: Covid jabs should not be mandatory
As a health trade union representing over 100,000 workers in the NHS, Unite has strongly encouraged our members to be vaccinated through our “Get a jab campaign”. Despite this, Unite, believe…Read more…
Blog: Government must treat health workers with respect
As Westminster announces a huge COVID booster drive, it must start listening to the people who will deliver the jabs to help protect us all
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 theme: #OneDay
One Day – 27 January – is a day that we put aside every year to come together to remember, to learn about the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and the genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, in the hope that there may be&n…Read more…
‘Alarming’ lack of lorry safety inspections
A UK based lorry can, on average, travel the equivalent of three and a half times around the world without expecting to undergo an on-the-spot check. Unite, the UK’s leading union, which represents…Read more…
‘Fundamentally flawed’
Unite, the union representing staff at the Financial Conduct Authority has today (December 13) raised grave concerns about the City regulator’s pay and grading consultation, due to close in 7 days’…Read more…
LAPFF Conference 2021: Day One
Day One of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum Annual (LAPFF) conference started with a welcome by our Chair, Cllr Doug McMurdo.
First item was a blended panel on the Local Government Pension Scheme APPG (all Party Parliamentary Group) report…Read more…
Review: Confronting Antisemitism on the Left – Arguments for Socialists, by Daniel Randall
Dan Randall is a British socialist and opponent of anti-semitism. That should be a tautology; after all, aren’t socialists by definition opponents of all forms of racism, including…Read more…
BBC Reality Check debunks five false vaccine claims
After responding to some bizarre and misleading comments on a post I have made about vaccination I thought this article and video by the BBC is really helpful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-59523439
While I can understand and respect peoples hesi…Read more…
“Reboot furlough to save jobs in sectors hit by Plan B” says TUC
“The TUC has called for Treasury support to protect jobs, and for the sick pay system to be fixed to reduce spread of Omicron, in response to today’s announcement of ‘plan B’ restrictions.The union body highlights that when a work from home instruction…Read more…
The ‘poor relation’ in railway policy
I was speaking at a European symposium on rail policy this week, providing an update on developments in the UK. It was interesting to hear what other countries were doing post-pandemic. Most are…Read more…
‘A testament to the breathtaking strategic approaches’
Fifty years on veterans of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) “work-in” have called on young workers to take inspiration from their legendary dispute when fighting pandemic redundancies.
The…Read more…
Ford Dagenham pay win
A significant pay victory for contract workers employed at Ford Dagenham has been notched up by Unite the union. More than 300 workers assembling engines, employed by Lineside Logistics at the Ford…Read more…
‘Act of bad faith’
The dispute involving drivers employed by the Tesco-owned Booker Retail Partners at its Thamesmead site has flared up again with a two-day strike, including Christmas Eve, which will hit deliveries…Read more…
Outsourced Barts Trust workers vote to strike
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company, Serco, have voted for industrial action across Barts Health NHS Trust in a battle against low pay and exploitation. With a 97%…Read more…
Luton Vauxhall Mitie strikes off
Workers employed by the outsourcing giant Mitie, working on a contract at the Vauxhall factory in Luton, have suspended strike action following the offer of a new pay deal put forward by the…Read more…
Denying the housing crisis in Swindon
Back in October David Renard, in his capacity as Environment spokesperson for the Local Government Association wrote that “There is … MoreRead more…