Carillion’s greedy bosses caused outrage yesterday after shamelessly refusing to return the massive bonuses they received while the company sank. Unite branded their refusal “a slap in the…Read more…
EDF smart meter strike
Strike action by EDF Energy smart meter installers in London is set to escalate in the row over the imposition of tracker devices in vehicles, and also random drug and alcohol testing. Unite, …Read more…
Unite: End worker abuse now call
Courier driver Don Lane was, according to the company DPD for which he worked, self-employed. But he was a far cry from being his own boss – he did have to answer to a supervisor. He…Read more…
‘Jackpot payday’
Bankers, financiers, lawyers and public relations executives stand to rake in millions as part of a massive payday totalling around £140m if Melrose succeeds in its ‘debt fuelled’ bid for the…Read more…
Where ‘guardians’ dwell
Walk past a boarded up or disused building in London and you may spot a sign informing passers-by that the property is “protected by live-in guardians”. Used primarily to deter squatters and…Read more…
Privatisation plans scrapped
Unite and other health unions celebrated a victory against NHS privatisation at the weekend after a Bristol Trust said it would scrap plans to transfer about 850 non-medical staff to a private…Read more…
Skills crisis
Unite has renewed its demands for radical action to be taken to tackle the deepening skills crisis facing the construction industry. Unite made its call following the publication of this…Read more…
End ‘race to the bottom’ call
Unite has warned that a rogue construction project in Wales is undermining pay, conditions and safety and ‘creating a race to the bottom’ in the industry. Unite’s concern relates to the…Read more…
Right to picket win
Unite has won a key legal victory overturning attempts to restrict the right to picket during strike action. The legal case arose as a result of a dispute involving Sutton Tanker workers based…Read more…
Pension age victory
Pension changes, affecting approximately 4,500 employees of the States of Guernsey that would have seen the pension age for some workers rising from 65 to 70, have been scrapped after Unite members…Read more…
Block the bid call
Unite has called on the House of Commons business, energy and industrial strategy committee to insist business secretary Greg Clark reviews Melrose’s debt fuelled takeover bid of GKN, which has…Read more…
GKN: a takeover too far
When Theresa May first promised a new industrial strategy for UK manufacturing, she claimed to be following in the footsteps of her political hero Joseph Chamberlain. It’s ironic then that this…Read more…
NHS privatisation is ‘killing people’
Hundreds of thousands of NHS campaigners will converge in London on Saturday (February 3) to demand the Tories fix the embattled health service. In response to the unprecedented and growing…Read more…
‘We break…we burnout’
My name is Debbie Wilkinson and I have been an NHS paramedic in Leeds for 27 years. I once worked out that means I have attended 999 calls at over 35,000 addresses! It’s a job I love and am…Read more…
Steel workers’ choose ‘best option’
The consultation over Tata steelworkers’ pensions closed this week (January 29) after nearly 100,000 workers made key decisions over their future retirement income. The vast majority of the…Read more…
Stop ‘predatory’ bid call
Unite warned that today’s (February 1) formal hostile takeover bid of GKN by Melrose was ‘debt fuelled’ and marked a return to 1980’s cowboy capitalism. Unite reiterated its call for the…Read more…
Brush Generators jobs slash
Unite today vowed to fight ‘distressing’ jobs losses at Brush Generators in Loughborough, after the firm owned by Melrose announced plans today (February 1) to cut up to 270 jobs and shift production…Read more…
‘Cost-cutting agenda’
Services to families and children in Somerset will be hit if the Tory-controlled county council takes these activities back in-house and then imposes cuts to a vibrant service, Unite has warned….Read more…
Why workers need a strong union
I spoke today at the plenary session of Unite’s national equality conference. It brought together delegates from each of the union’s equality conferences taking place this week in Blackpool – women,…Read more…
Halt bidding call
Unite called for bidding on a vital Ministry of Defence (MoD) contract to be halted today (January 31), after one of the outsourcing firms competing for the work had £1bn wiped of its share price….Read more…