Unite has called on Birmingham city council to respect its own employees and end the bin strike, after the High Court judge rejected the council’s application for an injunction to block the…Read more…
#SaveHondaSwindon
An online petition urging Honda to stay in the UK and rethink plans to close its Swindon factory is being launched today (March 1) as workers crank up their campaign to #SaveHondaSwindon, their union…Read more…
Share success with staff call
It’s been a good start to British Airways 2019 – the year in which the airline marks its 100th anniversary. Kicking off the celebrations with a star studded ad campaign featured luminaries of the…Read more…
MoD under pressure
Unite is asking for a meeting with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over its ‘catastrophic failure’ to contact the estimated 1,000 former employees, who could have been exposed to asbestos while…Read more…
‘Totally unacceptable’
Over 400 employees at Delphi Technologies are being balloted for industrial action over the closure of their final salary pension scheme which could cost some workers tens of thousands of pounds….Read more…
‘Shameful’
In the latest chapter of the Birmingham bin strike saga, Unite met Birmingham council yet again at the High Court this morning (February 28) as the council now seeks an injunction – using Tory…Read more…
‘Staggering findings’
A shocking two-thirds of NHS workers have become ill from stress on the job in the last year, a new staff survey has found. The poll of nearly half a million workers at more than 200 NHS…Read more…
Carney ‘no deal’ warning
There is no way the UK can prepare for a no deal Brexit, and growth is “guaranteed” to fall if the country crashes out of the EU, the governor of the Bank of England (BoE) told MPs yesterday…Read more…
Keeping the wheels on the road
Last week’s announcement from car manufacturer Honda, which said that it was planning to close its only European factory in Swindon sent shock waves throughout the UK. It was the latest in a series…Read more…
‘Lift off’ for strike action
About 400 lift engineers, employed by Otis Ltd, have pressed the button on six weeks of strike action over the next three months after rejecting ‘a paltry pay offer’ of 1.5 per cent. Unite…Read more…
London United
A campaign to tackle the alarming surge in far right extremism in the UK and across Europe will be launched by trade unions and party members at the London Labour regional conference this weekend…Read more…
‘Unite is not going away’
Unite is today (February 27) launching a campaign to end the mistreatment of construction workers operating on the High Speed Two (HS2) project. To coincide with the campaign’s launch Unite…Read more…
‘Homelessness crisis’
Homeless deaths are more than nine times higher in the poorest areas of England than in the richest, new data shows. Fatalities of homeless people were recorded by 156 local authorities in…Read more…
‘Goodwill gesture’
Unite has rescheduled tomorrow’s (February 26) intended Birmingham bin strike as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ in a bid to break the deadlock. Three days of peace talks, hosted by the conciliation…Read more…
Doctors feel the pain
In today’s papers (February 26) we read about a single GP in Shropshire who is covering night-time home visits for a population of half a million – a workload that was shared by eight GPs ten years…Read more…
End Brexit uncertainty call
Tory Brexit tactics are destroying the UK’s world-class manufacturing base, workers’ representatives from leading companies have warned. Unite workplace representatives from factories…Read more…
No-deal Brexit ‘sheer folly’
A number of EU tariffs designed to block dumping of cheap, inferior goods from countries such as China will be maintained in the UK post-Brexit, the government announced this week. Cheap…Read more…
‘Totally committed’ to justice
Unite is closing in on forcing Cullum McAlpine – one of the “key architects” behind the widespread blacklisting of construction workers by the infamous Consulting Association – to account for his…Read more…
Tory austerity shrinks economy by £117bn
A boost in public finances has been built “on the back of failing public services, painful sacrifices by working people and the dreadful punishment of our most vulnerable”, Unite has said. …Read more…
‘Historic moment’
Talks are being held with Rolls-Royce in the East Midlands about entering into a trade union recognition agreement, covering more than 2,000 managers, with Unite. This first such agreement for…Read more…