Unite members, employed by the UK’s leading waste management provider, Veolia Environmental Services UK Ltd, at the Ditton Road site in Widnes, Cheshire are set to ballot for strike action following…Read more…
Fair share call
A majority of workers in the UK’s hotel industry are barely scraping together a living earning less than the real Living Wage. A new TUC report has found that a shocking six in 10 workers are…Read more…
Fight to keep school bus
Leeds Unite Community activists have won another victory in their campaign to ensure the continued running of school transport for disabled children in the area. Leeds City Council (LCC) last year…Read more…
‘Anger’ at shipyard closure news
The decision to close the Appledore shipyard with the loss of 199 jobs has been met with “anger and dismay” by Unite, who vowed to fight the move and protect members’ jobs. The devastating…Read more…
‘Green light’ to bad bosses
Unite is extremely disappointed that the government has rejected recommendations to introduce a maximum working temperature. The Environmental Select Committee published a report in July…Read more…
‘Not just of kings and queens’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will tonight be calling for the story of Peterloo to be taught in schools, in a speech at a special pre-screening of a new Mike Leigh film that dramatises the…Read more…
Zero tolerance
Violence against NHS staff is a growing phenomenon that last year reached its peak – one in seven NHS workers reported being attacked. The latest shocking figures show that just over 15…Read more…
‘No bonanza’
Economic experts have demolished Tory claims that yesterday’s (October 29) Budget is “ending austerity”. In a damning analysis the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) pointed out that headline…Read more…
‘Time for action’
Workers at Luton Airport will intensify their ongoing campaign for pay justice with a week of strike action planned by passenger mobility assistants and a strike ballot for cleaners. Unite…Read more…
‘Temporary agreement’
Thousands of workers employed by DHL on the Jaguar Land Rover logistics contract in the West Midlands will have their pay protected during the company’s current two week shutdown, following an…Read more…
Fracking threat
Unite the union is calling for an immediate halt to fracking in Lancashire after it was revealed that there had been at least 19 tremors at the Quadrilla site since fracking restarted at the site a…Read more…
Save shipyard plea
Devon shipbuilding workers travelled to Parliament today (October 30) to hand in an 8,000-signature petition calling on the government to step up and save the embattled Appledore Shipyard. …Read more…
‘Budget for the few’
No “end to austerity” was in sight yesterday (October 29), as Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget handed rich families giveaways worth 14 times more than those afforded to the poor. Analysis…Read more…
‘Austerity is not over’
Responding to today’s (October 29) budget delivered by the chancellor Philip Hammond, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, “Austerity is not over. Despite the chancellor’s desperate efforts at…Read more…
Real alternative
Today’s (October 29) ‘trick or treat’ Autumn Budget has failed to give hope to ordinary people struggling to make ends meet in an economy dominated by low wages and insecure work. Against this…Read more…
‘Wee problem’
Global logistics giant UPS could face industrial action in the new year in the escalating row over denying their drivers night-time toilet facilities at its own depots. Unite the union said…Read more…
‘Save this historic shipyard’
A petition signed by more than 8,000 people calling on the government to secure future shipbuilding work at the threatened Appledore shipyard will be handed in at the House of Commons tomorrow…Read more…
‘Slap in the face’
Unite members at Cammell Laird will be balloted for industrial action over the bosses’ plans to slash the workforce by 40 per cent – despite having work for the next decade on the order books. …Read more…
Fair treatment call
Unite, the UK construction union, has warned that the announcement today (October 26) that Laing O’Rourke has been appointed as the managing contractor to complete the troubled Royal Liverpool…Read more…
‘Missed opportunity’
When the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) in England was first abolished in 2013, the government at the time said scrapping it would cut ‘red tape’. But five years on, all that’s been cut is the…Read more…