This comment first appeared on LabourList on Tuesday, April 30. “In the context of a 100-year life, continuous training and retaining will become more important. Older people need to be…Read more…
Pay justice fight
Bromley library workers are being balloted for strike action in the first stage of the campaign to give a big pay boost to workers employed by social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich…Read more…
‘Groundhog Day’ safety row
Workers, who operate the Woolwich Ferry used by an estimated 2.6m passengers a year, are to strike for 10 days in a dispute over pay, health & safety, and lack of staffing. The 31 workers,…Read more…
‘Troubling trend’
One in five LGBTQ+ NHS staff and a third of ambulance staff say they have been assaulted at work, new figures show. More than 20 per cent of healthcare staff identifying as LGBTQ+ on the 2018…Read more…
‘Three Rs’ campaign
Unite has partnered with global union federations IndustriALL Global and UNI on a yearlong worldwide health and safety campaign in the pulp, paper, packaging and graphical sector that begins today…Read more…
‘I just thought he was running late’
Every year on April 28 on Workers Memorial Day, Unite joins workers across the world to pay tribute to those who have tragically died at work – many under unsafe working conditions. Today we…Read more…
‘Skeletons in the closet’?
Unite today (April 26) held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston, as concerns grow about the treatment of the workforce. The Unite demonstrators,…Read more…
Public faith in the system ‘collapsing’
Public anger is at boiling point over sky-high fat cat pay packets, an influential group of investors has warned. People’s patience is wearing perilously thin with bosses awarding themselves…Read more…
‘Message of unity and hope’
Manchester City FC hosted anti-racism education charity Show Racism the Red Card’s annual School Competition Awards at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday (April 25). The awards event honoured…Read more…
‘Lifeblood of local communities’
Unite has welcomed a new pledge made by Labour to restore swingeing cuts to bus services funding which have seen 3,000 routes axed under successive Tory-led governments. Announcing its pledge…Read more…
Heathrow strike suspended
Baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London (formally Azzurra) at Heathrow airport have suspended strike action, due to have started tomorrow (Friday 26 April), to vote on a new pay…Read more…
Job evaluation row
Customer service assistants, employed by Sandwell council, who are members of Unite will begin industrial action on Friday, May 10, in a pay dispute over job grading. The 14 members of Unite…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Production workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater, where productivity is said to have ‘gone through the roof’, have voted for strike action over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. …Read more…
Merger off
Unite welcomed the decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which today (April 25) brings an end to the proposed merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda. The CMA said it had blocked…Read more…
Sea King asbestos scandal
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is shamelessly hiding behind “commercial interests” in refusing to provide information about the asbestos scandal involving the maintenance of its Sea King helicopter…Read more…
Food bank use up – again
Food bank use has skyrocketed by nearly 20 per cent over the last year, fuelled by Universal Credit delays, benefits cuts and low incomes. The largest food bank provider in the UK, the…Read more…
‘UK ship workers betrayed’
Inviting foreign firms to bid on a £1bn government contract to build Royal Navy support ships abroad has turned Britain into a “laughing stock” and is a betrayal of UK ship workers, Unite warned MPs…Read more…
‘Turning point’
Twenty-six years ago this week, Stephen Lawrence, 18, was murdered in cold blood by a gang of young men who targeted him in a racist attack in south east London, stabbing him to death. While…Read more…
Macclesfield hospital pay protest
Low paid staff, contracted by outsourcing firm ISS, at Macclesfield District General Hospital are staging a second protest on Friday (April 26) against ISS’ plans to withhold up to a week of their…Read more…
Newham council faces third dispute
Newham council is facing a third industrial dispute in as many weeks over the way it treats a key group of workers, Unite said today (April 24). Three gas managers working in the repairs…Read more…