Falling incomes, austerity and Brexit have caused the biggest rise in UK poverty since the Thatcher years, according to new analysis from the Resolution Foundation. The think tank’s annual…Read more…
‘Extraordinarily insensitive’
The threat to the Derbyshire psychotherapy service that helps adults traumatised in childhood by sexual and physical abuse should set alarm bells ringing with the public, Unite has warned. The…Read more…
‘In tatters’
The Ministry of Defence’s decision to freeze a competition to build the new Type 31e frigates despite detailed submissions from consortiums of UK shipyards that are backed by both Babcock and BAE…Read more…
Bring back AWB call
The annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival, held in Dorset each year, commemorates Britain’s first instance of trade unionism, when farmworkers first organised for better pay in 1833. But nearly…Read more…
‘Flagging morale’
This week’s announcements on public sector pay by government ministers will do little to lift flagging morale or ease the ‘pay pain’ endured for the last eight years by public sector workers, …Read more…
‘Not far enough’
New government plans to strengthen takeover laws will fall short in stopping the short term-ism of speculative capital, Unite has said. The plans, which will be subject to a 12-week…Read more…
‘Reservoir of corporate greed’
A privateer water firm that loses over 400m litres every day because of leaky pipes will hand nearly £181m to shareholders just two days before it imposes a hosepipe ban. United Utilities is…Read more…
Construction workers ‘short changed’
Members of Unite will be holding a series of protests tomorrow (July 24) over a ‘race to the bottom’ in pay, conditions and safety at the £800m energy to waste construction site at Parc Adfer in…Read more…
HPV vaccine for boys welcomed
Unite has welcomed moves to provide boys as well as girls with the HPV vaccine. The HPV vaccine is offered to girls aged 12 to 13 at school and is free for all girls until they turn 18,…Read more…
‘Fundamentally broken’
The Universal Credit IT system is “broken” and causing hardship for thousands of claimants, according to whistleblowers. Service centre workers have spoken about faults in the “cobbled…Read more…
‘Scandalous’
As TGI Fridays workers continue in their fight for fair tips, it has now been revealed that the restaurant chain’s top boss is cashing in on a massive pay rise – which takes her total pay to more…Read more…
‘Loud and clear message’
Doctors in Unite (DiU) will be supporting a demonstration tomorrow (July 24) in protest against GP at Hand, an online NHS GP app powered by private company Babylon that critics have said is…Read more…
NEU staff pay slash
Unite members working for the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest union for teaching and lecturing staff, took strike action this week (July 19) in protest at the ‘salami slicing’ of…Read more…
‘Beggars belief’
Unite the union has today (July 20) reacted to an asbestos exposure incident at the Bridge of Don Academy, Aberdeen by highlighting previous health and safety concerns raised by union…Read more…
Manchester Metrolink strike vote
Over 340 Unite members working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink will start voting on whether to take industrial action over pay from today (July 20) in a dispute which could see drivers on the tram…Read more…
Beating the heat?
This month’s relentlessly high temperatures are set to continue next week and, if the hot weather lingers much longer, the UK could be in for a record-breaking summer. For some, the sun has…Read more…
‘Our voice will be heard’
They came in their tens of thousands as, once again, the cobbled streets of Durham City, with its spectacular Castle and Cathedral, were packed for the annual Durham Miners’ Gala, known locally as…Read more…
‘Pride is Pride’
When retired Unite member Betty Gallacher decided to organise Eastbourne’s first ever gay pride last year, she didn’t expect to have to call the event “Mardi Gras” to avoid ruffling some of the more…Read more…
‘Outrageous’ hosepipe ban
A hosepipe ban imposed on 7m households in north-west England has been described as “outrageous” after it was revealed the water company that ordered it loses more than 439m litres a day through…Read more…
‘Propaganda war’
Bus bosses have been accused of waging ‘a propaganda war’ in the run-up to this weekend’s Tramlines music festival in Sheffield in the dispute over a ‘26 pence an hour’ pay offer for workers on the…Read more…