Unite members making the iconic MINI at BMW’s Cowley plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly backed an inflation proofed three year pay deal worth a minimum of 10 per cent. Over 81 per cent of…Read more…
EasyJet ‘check-in chaos’?
Thousands of easyJet passengers could face severe delays at Stansted Airport later this summer, if check-in staff go on strike in a pay dispute, Unite warned today (June 17). Unite represents…Read more…
Successful campaign
Unite Community activists in Leeds have written a pamphlet aimed at helping fellow campaigners, following their victory in forcing the city’s council to continue providing school transport for…Read more…
‘We’re a community’
They say a picture says a thousand words – in the case of a recent homophobic and sexist attack on two women on a London bus, the photo that went viral spoke volumes. The two women, covered in…Read more…
Polling Day
Wearing the rosette. Have you voted yet? Beguiled by the looking glass of nostalgia democracy once a noble endeavour. Equality and social justice enduring for ever. Until it doesn’t. They’re…Read more…
‘Not good enough’
Doctors, who are members of Unite, have two major concerns over the new contracts for junior doctors– three years after the dispute with then health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Doctors in Unite is…Read more…
‘Giant of the union movement’
Unite members are invited to a memorial lecture commemorating the life and work of legendary trade unionist and Labour politician Sir George Edwards, who established the National Union of…Read more…
‘Grim news’
The closure of Fiddler’s Ferry coal-fired power station in Warrington by next March is ‘grim news’ for the workforce and the North West economy, Unite said today (June 13). Unite has about 110…Read more…
‘Insulting’ pay offer
A total of 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire are holding two days of strike action after rejecting the ‘insulting’ offer of a one year pay freeze, Unite said today (June 13). The workers,…Read more…
‘Wrong decision’
Unite said it would be going to the Supreme Court to appeal today’s (June 13) decision by the Court of Appeal which overturned previous rulings by an employment appeal tribunal and employment…Read more…
No-deal Brexit uncertainty continues
Labour’s most recent effort to block a cliff-edge Brexit last night (June 12) was narrowly defeated in the Commons by a margin of 11. MPs voted against a motion tabled by Labour that would…Read more…
NHS privatisation threat
Unite is continuing its campaign against NHS privatisation – most recently by raising a warning flag over proposals to transfer 1,000 staff at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to a wholly owned…Read more…
Two-year pay victory
Workers at glass manufacturer Encirc Limited in Elton Cheshire have hailed victory in a dispute over pay. Unite’s 475 members voted by 78 per cent to accept the new two-year pay deal and, as a…Read more…
‘Ducking-and-diving’
Refuse workers employed by Newham council, who could have lost more than £20,000 each since 2007 in a dispute over grading, will strike for nearly a fortnight, Unite said today (June 11). …Read more…
Radical movement
Unite has urged members who are also part of Labour to get involved with the party’s groundbreaking grassroots campaign in preparation for a general election. The Labour Roots project, which…Read more…
‘Direct attack’ on pensioners
The Tories have broken a key manifesto pledge after the BBC announced on Tuesday (June 10) that free TV licences for over-75s would be scrapped. From June 2020, TV licences, which now cost…Read more…
‘Let’s unite the country’ call
Polly Toynbee cannot help caricaturing herself as the metropolitan snob whose disregard for life outside north London still leaves her, three years on, struggling to understand the 2016 referendum…Read more…
Manufacturing ’emergency’
Unite warned that the UK is in the grip of a manufacturing emergency after the latest economic figures showed manufacturing had shrunk 3.9 per cent with motor vehicle production plunging by a record…Read more…
‘Vile man’s bribes’
Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson has pledged to cut taxes for the better off by increasing the 40p threshold from £50,000 to £80,000, in a shameless bid to “bribe” wealthy Conservative Party…Read more…
Clear out the ‘cowboys’ call
Unite has welcomed a Parliamentary inquiry into the UK steel industry, prompted by the collapse of British Steel last month. Announced on Saturday (June 8), the inquiry by the business select…Read more…