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Knowsley Livv Housing workers have intensified their strikes in their fight for fair pay. After workers endured years of below inflation pay rises, they’ve now rejected a pay increase of five per cent because it fails to reverse the real terms pay cuts they’ve suffered. Livv Housing, which manages and maintains over 13,000 properties primarily […]
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Unite has been handing out the latest BuildingWorker to construction workers on their way to work in Islington. Activists were up early at Angel tube station to hand out the Autumn edition and talk to workers about the benefits of joining Unite. Darren Goldstone is a convenor at a construction site in London, and said; […]
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Members from Unite Hospitality held fringe meetings at this week’s Sector Conferences to highlight their current campaigns, and tell members from other sectors how they can support them. The group also held a highly active stall throughout the week and explained some of the issues facing workers across the sector to delegates. On Monday (18 […]
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The second day of 2024’s sector conferences encompassed Unite’s service sectors including construction, finance and health. Below we feature pictorial highlights from general secretary Sharon Graham’s speech and questions in the plen…Read more…
UPDATE: This is a reminder that voting for the SHP awards closes on Monday, November 24. We urge you to get your vote in for Unite national health and safety adviser Rob Miguel via the link here. You can read more about the awards and Rob’s nomination in the article below: — This year’s Safety […]
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“Verbal abuse is a daily occurrence while driving a bus…It can range from basic insults of being told you are rubbish at your job to personal insults to racial insults to threats to your personal safety.” This is just one anonymous experience from a Scottish bus driver who responded to a Unite survey of over […]
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Unite activists and members have taken the fight for fair pay at food processing company Bakkavor to Reykjavik, Iceland this week (6 November) taking the opportunity to explain the industrial dispute to comrades from Efling, one of the largest unions in Iceland. Bakkavor’s biggest shareholders are Icelandic “tycoons” Agust and Lydur Gudmundsson. Lydur Gudmundsson was […]
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London bus drivers organised a march and rally on Tuesday (5 Nov) to highlight the unsafe and “intolerable” working conditions they are expected to put up with, and Unite has supported them all the way. Hundreds of drivers gathered outside Ron Todd House in Moreland Street before marching through the streets of the capital to […]
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Members have voiced their support for Unite taking action, by launching a judicial review process on behalf of the union and its retired members, to overturn the government’s decision to cut the winter fuel payment to all but the poorest pensioners. Unite has sent a pre-action protocol letter to Liz Kendal the secretary of state […]
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On Friday night (Oct 25) Unite Equalities hosted the 2nd Unite National Black History Month Gala Awards which celebrated all the hard work from BAEM members and allyship to the BAEM community. After the success of last year’s event the return of the Gala was never in doubt and hundreds of Unite reps, activists and […]
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Unite has responded to the Labour Government’s budget today (30 October) and welcomed changes to fiscal rules and increased funding for the NHS, but called for “concrete plans” and a timeline. Unite also expressed disappointment that the government continues to push ahead with plans for cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, and missed the opportunity […]
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Hundreds of striking workers from the Bakkavor food production factory in Spalding, Lincolnshire, marched to the town centre today (Tuesday 22) as the dispute continues. Unite members, who have been on strike for three weeks in their fight for fair pay, congregated in Spalding. They were joined by family members and other supporters before marching […]
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Unite has welcomed key elements of the government’s Employment Rights Bill, which will have its second reading today (October 21) but warned that it stops short of “making work pay”, as Labour had promised. Key Wins With Unite leading on negotiations with the government over what is included in the Bill, several of Unite’s demands […]
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I was walking out of Stockwell tubeDown the road and past that famous streetThe one that spawned a battle in the 30sThe street corner where the real eastenders stood for justice – Cable street I was with my mate AntonHis family were Eastern European JewsAs we passed by cable street he told me of his […]
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Amber Al Amin Mosque’s blue domeglistening in the morning light challengingthe Maronite Cathedral for the city skyline.Heads covered, feet bare under chandelierswhispered words echo over the years. We climb spiral stairs to pay homage at the feetof the Mother of Christ the Lady of LebanonHer hands out stretched to the capitalThe sun sets to […]
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Unite activists have been up early this morning (11 October), talking to members and handing out leaflets outside North Acton tube to raise awareness for the unions campaign to improve pay. Declan Murphy and Stuart Grice from Unite’s construction sector spoke to lots of workers on their way to work at building sites linked to […]
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On World Mental Health Day Unite is encouraging members to get involved with the United Minds Campaign. The theme for World Mental Health Day 2024 is “Mental health at work” and the Mental Health Foundation says “Work can have a huge impact on our mental health. It can be good for our mental health, giving […]
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Unite took the campaign to protect pensioners and the Winter Fuel Allowance to Parliament on Monday (7 October) with a mass lobby and protest. Unite joined forces with the National Pensioners Convention and Scottish Pensioners Forum to call on the government to fully reinstate the Winter Fuel Allowance. Over 500 Unite members and activists from […]
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Unite members working as plumbers, fitters, welders and apprentices downed tools today (Monday 7 October) as they continue action to secure the reversal of the austerity-era cut to ‘travel time’. Pickets were mounted this morning outside the flagship Intel project in Co Kildare, where several Mechanical Engineering & Building Services Contractors’ Association (MEBSCA) employers are […]
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Unite Learning Centre strikes a chord with Essex bus drivers Unite Learning Rep (ULR) Darren Hincks has transformed learning in his workplace, and was recognised at the 2024 TUC Congress, being named ULR of the Year. Darren is a bus driver who runs a union learning centre at the First East of England offices in […]
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