Drivers working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink have accepted a ‘very good’ three year pay deal, Unite announced today (August 7). Unite hailed the package as ‘a great achievement’ which…Read more…
Left behind
Struggling families in the North are being locked out of job opportunities because of unreliable and unaffordable public transport, new research has shown. The study, commissioned by the…Read more…
NHS ‘not up for auction’
Virgin Care has hoovered up nearly £2bn of health service contracts over the last five years, new analysis that provides a worrying insight into the creeping privatisation of the NHS shows. In…Read more…
‘Sad state of affairs’
A rural charity is producing a “village survival guide” after a survey revealed that many countryside residents feel isolated and ignored. Unite welcomed the move but said real change to…Read more…
‘Never again!’
Vile right-wing thugs attacked a socialist and trade union bookshop in central London on Saturday (August 4), prompting an outpouring of solidarity for the bookseller and its staff. Around a…Read more…
Leadsom’s ‘ironic’ early years care ‘boost’
Unite has branded Tory plans to boost early years care services “ironic” given the party has spent years running them down. Tory MP Andrea Leadsom, who has been appointed chair of a new…Read more…
‘Exploited’
Unite has accused the government of washing its hands of thousands of workers who are experiencing the misery of being paid via an umbrella company. There has been a huge surge in the number…Read more…
‘Sign or be sacked’?
Unite is due to hold talks with Sainsbury’s bosses on Wednesday (August 8) over a collective grievance by the union’s members in the long-running ‘sign or be sacked’ contracts row affecting 123,000…Read more…
Defence jobs threat
Proposals by defence giant Babcock to close its site in Colchester, Essex, with the threat of 55 job losses, has ‘exposed’ the company’s shortcomings, Unite said today (August 6). Unite called…Read more…
‘No profit without responsibility’
London cab drivers are banding together in a potential group legal action against ridesharing app Uber for damages and loss of earnings reportedly totalling more than £500m. Unite’s Cab…Read more…
Tram strikes off
The strikes planned in the Sheffield supertram pay dispute have been suspended, as the 200 drivers and conductors vote on a revised pay offer. Unite will be recommending acceptance of the…Read more…
‘No more excuses’
The campaign to make London’s largest social enterprise leisure services’ provider Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) pay the London Living Wage (LLW) to those aged 18-to-20 is being taken to Waltham…Read more…
‘Too little, too late’
The unprecedented rise in food bank use in the last decade is a phenomenon that successive Tory governments have long buried their heads in the sand over. Just last year, Tory MP Jacob…Read more…
‘Invisible and undervalued’
A rural charity is producing a “village survival guide” after a survey revealed that many countryside residents feel isolated and ignored. Unite welcomed the move but said real change to…Read more…
‘Alarmingly high’
At least two abattoir workers are seriously injured in the UK every week and amputations occur at least once a month, shock new figures show. The data – obtained by the Bureau of Investigative…Read more…
‘Stop dithering’
Unite is calling on the government to ‘stop dithering’ as financing problems are set to further delay the completion of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Smethwick, which has been stalled…Read more…
Stop Universal Credit call
Thousands of disabled people on Universal Credit could be paid damages after two severely disabled men who were treated unlawfully while receiving the benefit received compensation. Following…Read more…
Clarity call
A clarion call for clarity on the future of the Moorside nuclear power station in Cumbria on which thousands of jobs will depend has been made by Unite today (August 1). Unite is seeking an…Read more…
‘Without parallel’
Years of mismanagement and cuts to local authority funding have placed the Tory-run Northamptonshire county council in a near-untenable position as it scrambles to provide services to vulnerable…Read more…
Animal welfare spot checks call
Farm animals are being tortured under Britain’s largest farm approval scheme because only one in a thousand inspections are unannounced, leading Unite to call for more spot checks. Disturbing…Read more…