Britain’s housing crisis turned up a notch in August after rents increased by 2.4 per cent, the highest increase this year. Families are now dishing out an average of £939 a month to keep a…Read more…
‘Addicted’ to zero-hours
Too many companies like Sports Direct are ‘addicted’ to the use of zero hours contracts and insecure working practices Unite warned today (September 19) as official figures showed there were 1.4…Read more…
Toxic cabin air inquiry call
Unite repeated its call for a public inquiry into toxic cabin air on board aircraft today (September 19) as an international two day conference into aircraft cabin air got underway at Imperial…Read more…
Sweet deal
About 1,300 workers at three Cadbury UK sites have achieved a two-year pay deal designed to counter rising inflation, Unite has said. The workers at the Birmingham Bournville site; Chirk,…Read more…
Fresh bus disruption
The streets of London are facing disruption this Friday (September 22) as London’s bus controllers take further industrial action in a dispute over pay, Unite, the UK’s largest union has warned….Read more…
Sick pay attack
Unite is urging Liverpool City Council to back a motion to be debated this Wednesday (September 20) which calls on the outsourcing giant ISS to end its attack on sick pay for hundreds of workers at…Read more…
Wage theft scandal
More than a million people are barely eking out a living on the minimum wage, now set at £7.50 an hour – but a shock new report has revealed that among these low-paid workers, as many as 1 in 5 are…Read more…
Unite solidarity pledge
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has pledged to raise the issue of Boeing’s failure to engage the Canadian government with Unite’s sister unions in Canada. McCluskey’s pledge comes…Read more…
Skills and pay ‘attack’
Unite has warned that a proposed new scaffolding card scheme will decrease standards and lead to scaffolders having different skills cards for different projects. Unite has been informed by…Read more…
‘Safety first’ call
Unite, today (September 18) called on the whole of the airline industry to follow the lead of easyJet and take a ‘safety first’ approach in fitting air filtration units on board aircraft…Read more…
‘Compassionate country’
Toffee-nosed Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg ignited outrage yesterday (September 14) after describing rocketing food bank usage as “uplifting”. The multimillionaire MP – tipped as a potential…Read more…
‘Strike ahoy’
The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, Queen Elizabeth, may not be able to leave its home port of Portsmouth, if a national pay dispute involving tug boat crew steams ahead. Unite today…Read more…
No to ‘de facto’ blacklist
Birmingham’s refuse workers will be rallying outside the council offices in Victoria Square on Sunday (September 17) calling on Birmingham city council to honour the Acas agreement and resolve the…Read more…
Online tax cheats
Online retail giants such as Amazon and eBay are turning a blind eye to massive tax fraud happening under their watch – to the tune of more than £1bn a year. Foreign retailers selling their…Read more…
Mental health care plea
This year Prime Minister’s questions fell on the day the NHS turned 69. It was July 5 and Theresa May told MPs that the country has “more nurses in our hospitals than we had in 2010”. At the…Read more…
‘Within our grasp’
Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland seconded a transport policy motion focusing on bus services. Speaking for Unite’s quarter of a million transport members she said it was vital…Read more…
‘Practice what you preach’
Christmas deliveries to 650 Co-op stores in London and the south east could be hit, if a dispute over the sacking of two disabled workers at its Thurrock distribution centre escalates, Unite has…Read more…
‘Snub to the workforce’
News that UK hospitality giant Whitbread, owners of Premier Inn and Costa Coffee, has pulled out of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), 18 months after it was granted foundation stage membership,…Read more…
Free labour scandal
Halfords has been criticised for running a government-backed traineeship first exposed by UniteLive that sees young jobseekers work for two months without pay. Financial services firm…Read more…
Pay up
Caving into public pressure, the government announced yesterday (September 12) that it will finally put an end to the public sector pay cap, first giving police and prison officers a pay rise now,…Read more…