As the government’s mandatory minimum wage is set to rise to just £8.72 an hour in April, new research reveals that an astounding 25 per cent of minimum wage workers are being underpaid illegally….Read more…
School bus pay victory
A long running dispute between Hackney council and school bus staff has been brought to an end after workers secured increased pay and a commitment to make agency roles permanent. The pay deal…Read more…
‘Cautious welcome’
Members of Unite employed in Bradford council’s library and museum service, who took 14 days of strike action last year, have given a cautious welcome to the local authority’s commitment to find…Read more…
New Year, new fare hike
Rail travellers have yet again been hit by fare increases, up 2.7 per cent, which came into effect just after New Year’s Day on January 2. New research from the TUC has found that since 2009,…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Exhausted London bus drivers, many of whom are suffering from chronic fatigue, are gearing up to vote for strike action in defence of health and safety. Unite announced that it will begin a…Read more…
New year’s manufacturing resolution needed
Unite is insisting that government must take action if the gloomy start to the new year for UK manufacturing is not to spiral downward further into a gloomy decade.
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Fat cat Monday
Only three working days into the new year, fat cat bosses will have earned by 5pm on Monday (January 6) what the average worker earns in an entire year. Figures published today (January 6)…Read more…
Pick of the bunch
As the year comes to a close we relive some of the many highlights UNITElive has covered.
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‘Vital support’
When people think of trade unionists, they don’t often think of vicars, but Unite is as ever a big and growing tent of workers who – despite holding a diversity of views — are united in their…Read more…
‘Carillion’s toxic legacy’
Unite has blamed the government’s failure to tackle ‘Carillion’s toxic legacy’ for further delays to the construction of the new Liverpool Royal Hospital.
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Taking on loneliness
While Christmas is often a time of good cheer, for those who have lost loved ones, it’s anything but. A new survey from Age UK found that about 1.5m older people say Christmas is in fact the…Read more…
Reinstate NHS bursary call
Unite has welcomed government plans to provide financial assistance to student nurses but said they are not enough to end chronic shortfalls in NHS health professional numbers.
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Northern Ireland NHS strike
Unite health members in Northern Ireland joined thousands of other NHS workers on picket lines across the region today (18 December) in a dispute over pay and patient safety.
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‘When’
Do you remember when the phone plugged into the wall had its own table in the hall? When the dial had letters as well as numbers? Were you one of those who liked mystery and went ex-directory? …Read more…
HS2 ‘Scrooge’ protest
Costain/Skanska labelled Scrooge employers as ‘Turkey truce’ offer given ‘the bird’ at fresh HS2 protest
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All pulling together
Unite Community activists have teamed up with other trade unionists in Doncaster to help flood victims – raising nearly £10,000 – after the government’s indifference response. Secretary of…Read more…
‘Images of the past’
Photographer Martin Jenkinson, a former steelworker, was commissioned by many unions including the TGWU/Unite and National Union of Mineworkers and was responsible for some of the most striking…Read more…
‘Thin end of the wedge’
Engineering workers at Felixstowe docks in Suffolk have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over the threat that some of them will be transferred to an outside company. A total…Read more…
Determined solidarity
Christmas strike action at Argos’ flagship distribution centre in Barton, Staffordshire, has been called off after UPS shunter and HGV drivers secured a pay deal worth about 4.5 per cent, Unite said…Read more…
‘Grim Christmas’
A confidential survey of over 2,000 members of Unite who were formerly employed on Thomas Cook’s airline has revealed that most are facing a grim Christmas. Ten weeks after Thomas Cook…Read more…