The extra £20bn for the NHS announced today by the Prime Minister (June 18) is the bare minimum the service needs, Unite has warned. Theresa May said the funding, which will see the NHS…Read more…
‘Wrong-headed’
Unite has described the announcement today (June 18) that troubled outsourcing giant Capita has been awarded the contract for the privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence…Read more…
Summer meltdown?
Motorists in Hackney, north London, are facing a summer meltdown as the borough’s traffic wardens, members of Unite, have announced six days of strike action next month. The 40 traffic…Read more…
Umbrella firms sink to ‘new low’
A troubling new practice of deducted the government’s Apprenticeship Levy from workers’ wages – on top of taxes meant to be paid by employers – has been described as a “new low” for rip off umbrella…Read more…
‘It simply doesn’t work’
Universal Credit – the government’s flagship welfare reform rolling six benefits into one – was today (June 15) slated by a government watchdog. The National Audit Office (NAO) published a new…Read more…
Standing together
Unite Community activists in Leeds have been praised by the parents of disabled children after their campaigning helped suspend plans to scrap school transport for the youngsters. Leeds City…Read more…
‘Destabilising’
Doctors in Unite (DiU) has called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to pull the plug on GP at Hand, an online video GP consultation service that critics have said is defunding already overstretched…Read more…
Pay takeoff
Almost a thousand easyJet ground staff and baggage handlers at Gatwick airport employed by DHL have negotiated a pay boost worth on average 7.5 per cent over two years. The workers will also…Read more…
Hidden lifelines
In Carer’s Week 2018 we speak to Unite regional officer Joanne Galazka Joanne Galazka had to grow up quick. At nine she became a carer for her mother, Freda, who developed severe post-natal…Read more…
Job cuts: ‘Too deep and too fast’
Unite warned Rolls-Royce against cutting ‘too deep and too fast’ after the engineering firm today (June 14) announced that it was planning to cut several thousand largely managerial and…Read more…
Unions organising the modern workforce
My Twitter timeline has been full of messages of support and praise for Unite’s historic recognition deal with Ryanair this week, from those celebrating that they can finally fly with the low-price…Read more…
Insecure work and low pay pain continue
British workers are set for more wage pain as figures published on Tuesday (June 12) showed earnings growth slowed in the three months to April. The data from the Office of National Statistics…Read more…
‘Up in arms’
Unite has called on private companies and the Department of Health to give workers indirectly employed by the NHS the same pay increase as NHS employees. More than 1m health workers are to…Read more…
Managed transition
Unite said it would be pressing Jaguar Land Rover for a managed transition that protects jobs after the car maker confirmed to workers today (June 12) that it would be investing in new production…Read more…
Failure to act
Striking TGI Fridays workers – who’ve downed tools on several successive Fridays over the last month – today (June 12) took their case to the government. The workers, along with their…Read more…
‘Shot in the arm’
Unite has called for urgent government intervention in the construction industry after figures published by the ONS this week (June 11) revealed that the industry contracted by 3.4 per cent in the…Read more…
‘Major blow’
Unite is calling for urgent support for the 5,000 workers at Poundworld who face losing their jobs after the company was forced into administration on Monday (June 11). Unite, which…Read more…
‘Historic agreement’
In a major victory, Ryanair has signed an recognition agreement with Unite, which represents nearly 700 cabin crew directly employed by the budget airline. Ryanair’s UK cabin crew will for the…Read more…
Destitution by govt design
More than 1.5m people in Britain are living in destitution, shocking new figures show.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) analysis led to a call from Unite for the government to tackle severe…Read more…
‘We’ve had enough’
TGI Fridays, the American-style restaurant chain, is facing its fourth Friday (June 8) of strikes in a row as members of Unite, vow to keep striking in their dispute over tips and alleged minimum…Read more…