All the union news that's fit to blog...
Unite took its Workers’ Plan for Steel campaign straight to the heart of Port Talbot, at the ShunkFest 2023 music and culture festival last weekend (October 14-15). ShunkFest featured more than two dozen bands, including headliners, alt-rock band Trampolene and ‘shoegaze’ duo Pastel, over the two days of the festival. Unite’s organising and leverage team […]
The post Unite steel campaign goes to ShunkFest appeared first on Unite Live.
Average pay growth rising above inflation in August for the first time in two years will be cold comfort for millions of workers who have suffered pay erosion for over a decade. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced on Thursday (October 17) that in the three months to August, annual pay growth rose by […]
The post Wages ‘eroded over more than a decade’ appeared first on Unite Live.
A strong majority of voters living in Red Wall seats back public ownership of the UK’s energy system, an exclusive new poll has revealed. The recent survey carried out by pollsters Survation found that overall 64 per cent of voters in Red Wall seats agree that the UK’s domestic energy industry should be brought back […]
The post Red Wall voters back public energy appeared first on Unite Live.
The British economy continues to stagnate after new figures published on Thursday (October 12) showed that gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a mere 0.2 per cent in August. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said the latest data demonstrated the need to “fix our broken economy right now”. Fuelling modest GDP growth in August was […]
The post ‘Fix our broken economy now’ call appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite had a strong showing at the Labour Party Conference throughout the week till the very last day on Wednesday (October 11). See highlights from the last day of conference below, with Unite general secretary Sharon Graham out and about with delegat…Read more…
Unite delegate Julian Allam gave an impassioned defence of a New Deal for Working People at Labour Party Conference on Tuesday (October 10). Julian called the last decade of Tory misrule “devastating” as he highlighted how “workers’ rights have been attacked and public services cut and privatised” alongside new anti-trade union laws. “To win the […]
The post ‘No backsliding’ on ‘New Deal’ for workers appeared first on Unite Live.
Following on from Sir Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour Party conference today, October 10, Unite said that it was clear Britain needed a Labour government and a reshaped economy relevant to working people. UNITElive gives Unite members a handy view of the topics of interests he spoke about. His theme was ‘A Britain built […]
The post ‘A Britain built to last’ appeared first on Unite Live.
Against a background of increasing bloodshed in Israel and Gaza, the Unite fringe on Building solidarity and speaking up for Palestine in the Labour Party, held yesterday (October 9) at the Labour Party conference was potentially going to be a difficult event. But nothing could have been further from the truth as speakers spoke of […]
The post ‘The rule of law, not the rule of the jungle’ appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegate Ruth Hayes gave an inspiring speech on tackling violence against women and girls at Labour Party Conference on Tuesday (October 10). Ruth, who also serves as chair of the Labour Party national women’s committee, blasted Tory inaction on gender-based violence, which she called “staggering”. “Since last year, the gravity of this has become […]
The post End ‘epidemic of violence’ call appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegate Tommy Murphy gave a thought-provoking speech at Labour Party Conference on Monday (October 9) on artificial intelligence in the workplace. Moving a composite on AI and automation, Tommy noted that “workers in the print industry have long memories – and we remember the charging horses of the Wapping dispute where millionaires imposed automation […]
The post Workers must share in benefits of AI appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave a barnstorming speech on bringing energy back into public hands on Monday (October 9) at the Labour Party Conference. You can watch the full speech in the video clip below and read a summary of her speech here.
The post ‘Labour – be the voice of workers’ appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegate Ivan Monckton made a powerful intervention in defence of UK steel workers at Labour Party Conference on Monday (October 9). Speaking on a debate on industrial strategy, Ivan said that “this is crunch time for steel”. “It’s time for this party – and the government it will form – to show steelworkers which […]
The post ‘Crunch time for steel’ appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham reiterated her union’s call to take energy back into public hands at the Labour Party Conference on Monday (October 9), in a speech that was dominated by cheers and applause. Moving a motion on critical infrastructure, Unite’s leader began by thanking workers in Britain who “fought the profiteers as well […]
The post Energy back into public hands call appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegates proudly represented their union on the first day of the Labour Party Conference on Sunday (October 8) in Liverpool. See highlights from the conference in photos below, including Unite general secretary Sharon Graham with delegates, Unite delegate Angela Duerden making a powerful intervention on Labour party democracy, and Unite delegates launching a new […]
The post Unite at Labour Conference – Day 1 appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite delegate Susan Matthews gave a powerful speech on the first day of the Labour Party Conference on Sunday (October 8), opposing the Constitutional Amendments group ‘Getting our CLPs election ready’. Susan highlighted that at the Labour Party Conference in 2018, she spoke in support of additional equality officers in Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) being […]
The post ‘Keep our equality voices’ appeared first on Unite Live.
Ahead of the opening day of Labour Party Conference today (October 8) Unite launched the latest iteration of its Unite for a Workers’ Economy campaign by asking “Who Should Our Economy Work For?” Unite general secretary Sharon Graham and the union’s delegation unveiled the campaign slogan just before the conference got underway. Unite is undertaking […]
The post Economy ‘not working for working people’ appeared first on Unite Live.
In the early 1970s the American liberal philosopher John Rawls wrote “A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place”. The quote sums up the aspirations of the age. Ever-rising living standards allowed ordinary workers to believe that their kids would […]
The post Labour ‘must be bold’ appeared first on Unite Live.
A Survation poll for Unite of over 1,000 adults in Red Wall seats reveals many voters share Unite’s concerns about Three’s owner, CK Hutchison, and its links to the Chinese state. If the merger is approved CK Group will have significant control over the privacy and security of 27 million UK mobile customers. As Unite […]
The post Today’s top stories…Red wall voter fears over Three-Vodafone merger appeared first on Unite Live.
Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at how Unite reps Dave and Istvan are shaking things using TikTok to recruit migrant workers to Unite. — Unite reps and cousins Dave and Istvan Imre are giving the union a much-needed […]
The post UniteLive stories of the year – The ‘TikTok recruiters’ appeared first on Unite Live.
In his office, ‘man make-up’ immaculate as ever Romanian-born Unite rep Dave Imre lays out scores of filled out membership forms, casually cooling himself with a flamenco fan.
The post ‘You can change everything in this factory…’ appeared first on Unite Live.