Earlier this month, UniteLIVE highlighted some big companies behaving badly during the pandemic, cutting jobs while still paying out dividends to shareholders. British footwear retailer Clarks has…Read more…
Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick strikes continue
Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick in Lancashire will be hit with a second and third wave of targeted strikes over plans to offshore the production of Trent jet engine blades to Singapore with the loss of 350…Read more…
‘Clapping doesn’t pay the bills’
Drivers and passenger assistants, who take disabled children to and from school in Hackney, have voted unanimously to strike over the failure of the council to make a one-off £500 Covid-19 payment…Read more…
Carillion latest
The announcement today (November 13) by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog that senior executives of Carillion ‘mislead’ the markets and acted ‘recklessly’ should result in the guilty…Read more…
‘We must not repeat PPE fiasco’ with vaccine
The country’s leading manufacturing union, Unite, has today (November 13) urged the prime minister to appoint a cabinet minister to bring urgently needed coordination to the production and…Read more…
‘Vital victory for entire labour movement’
The government has been forced to confirm that workers taking lawful industrial action have a right to picket their workplace during the Covid-19 lockdown. In doing so they have vetoed the actions of…Read more…
‘The only way we will get through this is if we help each other’
At a time when hunger and want have soared in the UK and across globe amid the coronavirus pandemic, never has reaching out to our communities been more important. That’s why Unite has set up its…Read more…
BA cargo workers in fire and rehire dispute
British Airways is facing significant disruption in its cargo handling business in the run up to Christmas as members of Unite prepare to ballot for industrial action. The dispute is a result of…Read more…
Solidarity for Barnoldswick
Rolls-Royce workers in Barnoldswick continue their strike action, fighting for their jobs, communities and the legacy of an historic plant that is the birthplace of the jet engine. Unite assistant…Read more…
Unite statement on Julian Assange
Unite welcomes the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) condemnation of the detention of Julian Assange pending his extradition proceedings. We applaud the NUJ’s campaign to draw to broad…Read more…
Crisis of hunger
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a crisis of hunger, as new figures from the Trussell Trust food bank network show a surge in demand for food parcels since the pandemic began. The latest…Read more…
MPs support embattled Barnoldswick workers
The government must put conditions on support for Rolls-Royce or risk jobs, says Grahame Morris MP
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Hackney parking wardens win
Unite said the decision by Hackney council to bring its more than 130 parking wardens back ‘in-house’ is ‘the way to go’ for those London boroughs still wedded to the outsourced, privatisation model….Read more…
GLL recognition deal ‘huge step forward’
Unite the union and Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) have signed a union recognition agreement. The agreement specifically relates to the leisure contract in the London Borough of Lewisham and follows…Read more…
‘Time to stop government’s economic rollercoaster’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s extension of the furlough scheme has come too late for a massive number of people who are now out of work, as the latest figures show more than 300,000 redundancies were made…Read more…
Lorry drivers ‘denied basic rights’
MPs and councillors in Kent will be lobbied by Unite to ensure that decent welfare facilities are installed at all lorry parks built in the county, to manage transport delays as a result of the UK’s…Read more…
Protecting the right to picket
Unite has filed an urgent judicial review seeking to protect the right to picket, following the introduction of the new coronavirus lockdown regulations in England. The case is brought against the…Read more…
Vaccine breakthrough?
Hopes of a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel were running high after a new breakthrough on a coronavirus vaccine was announced this week, but Unite has urged caution. US pharmaceutical giant…Read more…
NHS pay rise before Christmas call
As the UK enters a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, NHS staff are again working flat out – as they have since March – to treat and care for their patients. And while prime minister…Read more…
Unite supports ‘no confidence’ vote in Jersey’s chief minister
Unite is supporting a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Jersey’s chief minister John Le Fondré tomorrow (November 10) over allegations that the government’s CEO Charlie Parker had failed to secure the…Read more…