As temperatures are set to rise well above 30C this week, with a record-breaking 37C on Thursday (July 25) predicted in parts of the South East, British workers are well and truly feeling the heat….Read more…
‘Heed this massive vote’
Nearly 100 fire and rescue staff at Heathrow Airport have joined thousands of other Heathrow workers in voting in favour of strike action over pay, Unite announced this week (July 22). …Read more…
‘Driven to despair’
Library staff in Bradford will be holding a consultative ballot for industrial action as residents face swingeing cuts to the city’s 13 libraries and four museums. Unite announced today (July…Read more…
‘Mighty’ pay rise
Unite members working for Mitie at Sellafield in Cumbria have ended their pay dispute with the outsourcing giant after securing a pay rise of 55 pence per hour it was announced today (July 22)….Read more…
Rural news tops Corbyn’s address
Jeremy Corbyn praised Unite’s Landworker magazine as part of his speech encompassing rural issues at the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in Dorset yesterday (July 21). Holding aloft a copy…Read more…
Unite launches gambling workplace charter
Unite has launched a workplace gambling charter, which has been created to provide a framework for employers and unions to assist workers who are having gambling problems. It is estimated that…Read more…
‘Our jobs matter’
‘Our jobs and our communities matter’ will be the message from Unite manufacturing shop stewards from across the UK when they travel to parliament on Wednesday (July 24) to meet MPs and demand that…Read more…
‘The start of something big’
Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire County Council are standing firm against the erosion of their pay and conditions as they took a fourth day of strike action on Monday (July 22). At a…Read more…
‘We won’t be fooled’
Unite has lambasted a limited public sector pay rise as a “last gasp attempt by a failed government” after the Times reported that some groups of public sector workers are set to be in line for a…Read more…
Latest offer rejected
About 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire will hold two 24 hour strikes after pay talks broke down today (July 18), Unite said. Unite said that its members, employed by First South Yorkshire…Read more…
‘Up against the biggest’
As the longest strike in Australia’s modern history carried on month after agonisingly-long month, the number of workers on the picket line dwindled. Although almost broken, AMWU union rep…Read more…
‘Playing with fire’
Unite accused the government of ‘playing with fire’ over the privatisation of the Defence Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS) after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced today (Thursday 18 July) that…Read more…
Crunch pay talks
Crunch pay talks are due to be held tomorrow (July 18) in a bid to avert strike action by about 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire, Unite said today (July 17). Unite said that its members,…Read more…
Future pensioner homelessness crisis?
Millennials are facing a homelessness crisis once they retire as the shortage in affordable housing reaches breaking point. More than half a million people under 40 who are unable to afford to…Read more…
‘Guarded welcome’
Unite has given a guarded welcome to a commitment made today (July 17) by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to provide funding to ensure workers at its former site in Avonmouth, Bristol, receive their…Read more…
‘Insulting’ pay offer
Unite has today (July 16) confirmed that it will move to ballot its members at Diageo for strike action following the overwhelming rejection of a derisory pay offer of 2.5 per cent made to the…Read more…
‘Latest victims of bandit capitalism’
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is facing pressure from MPs to handover £12m in promised redundancy payments to staff who worked at its former Avonmouth site. The calls came as Unite called…Read more…
Health visitors’ pay fight
Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire county council are striking for 48 hours from today (July 15) over not getting paid the rate for the job and the erosion of their professional…Read more…
Extreme poverty rising
More than half of families visited by child support workers are destitute, a new survey of social workers and health visitors has revealed. The survey of 1,200 frontline support professionals…Read more…
Unity call at 135th Durham Miners’ Gala
Unite members from across all regions and sectors joined this year’s 135th Durham Miners’ Gala, where it is estimated that 200,000 people attended on Saturday (July 13). At one of…Read more…