The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first council in the capital to throw its weight behind Unite’s pioneering Construction Charter. Construction firms planning to work on…Read more…
Hybrid car demand falls
Government cuts to grants for green cars is putting the UK in the slow lane in the drive to alternatively fuelled vehicles, Unite warned today (July 4), as car registration figures showed demand has…Read more…
Quality training call
Unite has given a cautious welcome to a new initiative by the Construction industry Training board (CITB) designed to help ensure trainee bricklayers gain the necessary qualifications to work in the…Read more…
Summer airport chaos?
Management intransigence is fuelling the potential for continued airport chaos over the summer holiday period as workers fight back to protect their pay and conditions. In the latest instance,…Read more…
‘People are fed up’
“Fed up” Scottish pharmacy workers will go on strike if progress is not made in a long running pay dispute at a meeting between Unite officials and NHS bosses tomorrow (July 4). NHS Tayside…Read more…
‘This is not working’
Unite has joined the TUC and an alliance of other unions, charities and women’s rights groups in a new campaign to end sexual harassment in the workplace. The launch of the campaign last week…Read more…
‘Ready to face the challenges ahead’
Strengthening the union’s democracy was the central focus of this year’s Unite rules conference, which took place in Brighton last week (June 24-26). About Unite 500 delegates from all sectors…Read more…
RSPCA campaign victory
A Unite campaign to overhaul failing and shady governance at the RSPCA achieved victory on Saturday (June 29) when the charity’s membership overwhelmingly voted in favour of major top down changes at…Read more…
Pressured to take part
In the latest instance of ongoing tips abuses, waiters at Pizza Express have claimed they were forced by bosses to hand over to charity the cash they’d worked hard to earn. Waiters at the…Read more…
Gig economy doubles
The gig economy has more than doubled during the last three years, according to a new report that exposes Britain’s growing reliance on insecure work. Unite has led calls for reform to prevent…Read more…
Manchester bus travel ‘renaissance’?
Plans by Greater Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham to take back control of the conurbation’s bus services could herald a renaissance in bus travel, Unite said today (June 28). Unite said that…Read more…
‘First shot across the bows’
Workers at Derby’s Reckitt Benckiser plant will start a continuous overtime ban and work to rule from Thursday 11 July in the dispute about workers being asked to work for up to an extra four weeks…Read more…
‘Unprecedented’ health visitor strike action
Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire county council will strike initially for six days over not getting paid the rate for the job and the erosion of their professional responsibilities which…Read more…
Bus drivers ‘exhausted’ by long hours
Unite has demanded that Transport for London (TfL) take action on bus driver fatigue on the eve of the publication of a damning new report on the issue. The new report follows a previous one,…Read more…
‘Profoundly disturbing’
A new survey of housing association workers has revealed an epidemic of work-related stress among staff who feel burned out, undervalued and poorly paid. The survey commissioned by Unite of…Read more…
‘Catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit
A failure to take a no-deal Brexit off the table will destroy jobs and snuff out the hope of securing the long-term future of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, Unite warned today (June 27). The…Read more…
Fringe benefits
Away from the conference floor, delegates to Unite’s third rules conference had a busy time on the fringe meeting circuit. From untold stories of trade unionists and working class history, and…Read more…
‘Sea of uncertainty’
Tory leadership contenders must take a no deal Brexit off the table Unite has warned, after car manufacturing figures fell for the twelfth month in a row. The union called on leadership…Read more…
Unity over division
Unite members gathered discuss how to tackle the far-right and racism at the union’s rules conference in Brighton this week. At the Unity Over Division fringe, delegates discussed the union’s…Read more…
Bromley library dispute escalates
Unite has called for a London-wide boycott by the public of leisure centres run by social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL). Unite said the boycott call of…Read more…