The coronavirus itself may not discriminate along race or class lines, but because we live in a deeply unequal society, the end result is the same – Black and Asian ethnic minority (BAEM) communities…Read more…
Scared for their safety at work
Unite, representing staff working in call and contact centres across the financial services sector, has today (June 4) called for urgent action following the publication of a report into Covid-19…Read more…
Pandemic ‘linked to class and race’
A new report out from Public Health England (PHE) this week (June 2) has confirmed what previous studies have found – that people from black and minority ethnic (BAEM) communities are much more…Read more…
‘Wanton act of industrial vandalism’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (June 3) highlighted the appalling behaviour of British Airways, which has moved to sack its entire workforce of 42,000 and rehire some 30,000 of them on…Read more…
‘Shoulder to shoulder’
Unite stands in solidarity with all those protesting in response to the senseless murder of George Floyd, and the appalling racism both here and across the world. The labour movement must be clear in…Read more…
‘There must be consequences for BA’s actions’
Unite is calling for a government review of British Airways’ landing slots amid the airline’s betrayal of its workers and the British public. Unite has welcomed today’s (June 3) debate in the House…Read more…
‘A quiet revolution’
The issue of shorter working time in the post Covid19 era is now firmly on the agenda, thanks to a new report commissioned by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU). The CSEU…Read more…
‘A devastating effect’
Unite London and Eastern regional officer Wayne King speaks out about the need for the government to take urgent action to save the UK’s aviation sector, on BBC London, June 2.
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Nissan pension attack ‘opportunistic’
Nissan’s plans to end a defined benefits pension scheme for hundreds of workers at its Sunderland plant are ‘disappointing’ and ‘opportunistic’, Unite said today (Tuesday 2 June).
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‘Grim’ times for Heathrow’s workers?
Hounslow council is warning that a third of the 100,000 households in the borough could be affected by job losses – shrinking the local economy and contracting it by a massive 40 per cent.
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‘No stone left unturned’
As the UK-wide lockdown continues to ease amid the coronavirus pandemic, more and more people will be asked to return to work. But Unite has vowed from the beginning that no worker should return…Read more…
‘We cannot be silent’
Workers Uniting, the transnational union representing over 3 million workers across the UK, Ireland, United States, Canada and Mexico is outraged and appalled at the killing of a Black man, George…Read more…
Reducing social distancing to 1m doubles infection risk
Reducing the two metre social distancing requirement to one metre could double the risk of coronavirus infection, new research out on Tuesday (June 2) has found. The research, part-funded by the…Read more…
The very best of us
Dr Singer, a GP, had been chair of Doctors in Unite (DiU), formerly known as the Medical Practitioners’ Union (MPU). The union formed of mostly GPs celebrated its centenary in 2014.
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‘Disgraceful’ actions
There’s no doubt that local authority workers are finding life tough right now – with little or no recognition for putting their safety at risk in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Chancellor announces changes to furlough scheme
Responding to the chancellor’s changes to the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) announced today, the leader of the country’s most influential union, Unite, said that he was pleased that unions…Read more…
When
Do you remember when
the phone plugged into the wall
had its own table in the hall?
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Heroes and zeroes
Each Friday on UniteLIVE, we bring you all the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the devastating crisis we’ve been thrust into, countless people have managed to…Read more…
Now it is time to fight for jobs
People and markets make the decisions and what actually moves them must be our focus, otherwise we will be left bitterly disappointed. We must remember that tactics without strategy is often the…Read more…
British car production plummets
British car manufacturing has taken a massive hit amid the coronavirus epidemic, after new figures reveal that in April, production figures plummeted by 99.7 per cent. The latest data represents the…Read more…