Council houses are being sold off nearly three times as quickly as news ones are built, new figures reveal. Under the Tories’ right-to-buy scheme more than 12,000 council houses – worth more…Read more…
Paying the price of ‘bung parliament’
Shameless Tory MPs cheered as they blocked a bid to scrap the pay cap for struggling public sector workers including nurses, firefighters and police. The Conservatives managed to scrape…Read more…
Austerity’s end days?
Public support for austerity has collapsed, according to a new survey which found that Britons are overwhelmingly in favour of increasing health, education and policing budgets. The survey was…Read more…
True cost of gig work
Trade unions have rebutted claims by a government appointed chairman of a review into insecure work – including zero-hour, gig economy and agency roles – that most people “want to work that way.”…Read more…
‘Why are we waiting?’
Unite accused the government of dragging its feet over its failure to release its report into tips for restaurant staff, as the consultation closed for submissions a year ago today, Tuesday June 27….Read more…
The food we eat
Politicians are being urged to develop a progressive food policy for England that includes improved labour rights in advance of leaving the EU. A coalition of grassroots food and farming…Read more…
Public cash for future energy works
The report on the financing of the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point reinforces the case for public money to be committed to future large-scale energy projects, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
M&S ‘equal pay for equal work’ row
Deliveries to Marks and Spencer food stores in London and the south east will be disrupted if a strike over ‘equal pay for equal work’ at Hemel Hempstead goes ahead, Unite, the country’s largest…Read more…
End pay restraint call
Public sector workers in the UK were calling for the lifting of seven years’ of pay restraint as part of the European Federation of Public Service Unions’ (EPSU) campaign to mark public services day…Read more…
Stop BA ‘wet lease’ call
Unite today (June 23) is calling on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to turn down an application by British Airways to charter or ‘wet lease’ nine Qatari registered Airbus that it wants to provide…Read more…
Cruel cap ruled unlawful
In a damning judgement the Tories’ cruel benefit cap has been ruled unlawful by the High Court because it discriminates against single parent families with children under two. Delivering the…Read more…
What plans for HSE?
Today (June 22) Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail spoke out on HSE inspection cuts in the construction industry. “Sadly there remain far too many employers who are all too…Read more…
Tragic crane deaths
Unite is seeking urgent answers after a crane collapse in Crewe killed two workers and injured several other people. The accident happened yesterday (Wednesday June 21) at Dunwoody Way in…Read more…
Bin strike over jobs slash
Refuse workers at Birmingham city council are set to strike as the council swings the axe on 122 waste collection jobs amid claims of ‘a bullying culture’ and financial incompetence. The…Read more…
A ‘bad deal’ Brexit?
Despite being forced to exclude most of her manifesto policies from the Queen’s Speech, beleaguered Theresa May made sure her plans for a hard Brexit that will take the UK out of the EU’s single…Read more…
Saving Coventry City
Unite Community Coventry and Warwickshire branch members have thrown their weight behind a campaign to rescue the beleaguered Coventry City Football Club (FC). The branch has organised the…Read more…
‘Sooner the better’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey on the Queen’s speech: “The Tories had a chance today to show that they understand the issues of this country – growing poverty, insecurity,…Read more…
‘Proper’ pay rise call
Unite members employed by the private contractor Serco, working at Barts Health NHS Trust, have overwhelmingly voted to strike for a proper pay rise. A massive 99 nine per cent of workers that…Read more…
Stripped down plans
Shambolic Theresa May was forced to ditch huge chucks of her manifesto from the Queen’s Speech today. The blundering Prime Minister had to present a stripped-down plan for the next two…Read more…
Where’s the hope, Theresa?
It was an opportunity for Theresa May and her discredited government to heed the voice of millions who voted for a change of direction by ditching failing austerity for a brighter future. …Read more…