More and more people are toiling into their old age new figures show, even as the government considers pushing the age of retirement further back for today’s young people. Plans to change the…Read more…
Show EU staff NHS needs them call
The number of EU nurses registering in England has fallen by 92 per cent since the Brexit referendum while the number of European NHS nurses who have quit their jobs has increased, new figures show….Read more…
Uber lobbying inquiry call
Black cab drivers’ union, Unite, today (March 27, 2017) echoed calls for an inquiry into links between senior Conservative figures and Uber and their role in lobbying against tighter private taxi…Read more…
Navigating ‘these stormy waters’
Representatives of Unite’s 95,000 auto members gathered for an emergency Brexit conference on Saturday (March 25), just days before Theresa May triggers formal negotiations over the UK’s EU exit….Read more…
Patient safety first
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined biomedical scientists in Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust yesterday (March 22) on the third day of a week-long strike over patient safety. The scientists,…Read more…
Turning its back on communities
Unite has expressed anger over plans by RBS Group to cut even more branches across the UK as it renewed calls for a moritorium on branch closures. The bank, majority owned by the UK…Read more…
Pensions row ramps up
Angry workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are striking today (March 23) in their long-running pensions’ dispute, with another seven days of strikes on the cards. …Read more…
Secure ‘open skies’ call
An agreement securing current freedoms for UK airlines to fly in Europe and beyond must be reached urgently during Brexit negotiations to ease job fears and end uncertainty in the industry, Unite…Read more…
Pensions deadlock
BMW workers at the home of the Mini in Cowley will be staging a second protest tomorrow (March 24) over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension scheme. Tomorrow’s protest from…Read more…
From trollies to Trident?
The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) – first formed after the 1989 Deal Barracks bomb attack over concerns that private security were not properly trained to guard MoD sites – is now under…Read more…
‘Astonishingly good’ figures
The latest record UK car production figures strongly reinforce the case that prime minister Theresa May needs to negotiate access to the European single market for the industry and membership of the…Read more…
Vauxhall update meeting
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will be updating Unite shop stewards at Vauxhall’s Luton plant on the current situation of the automaker’s sale to PSA when he visits the plant tomorrow (March…Read more…
Unite hails cab victory
Makers of the iconic London black cab, the London Taxi Company (LTC), launched a new state-of-the-art plant today (March 22) in the West Midlands to much fanfare in what’s been dubbed “one of the…Read more…
‘Too little too late’
Extra funding for suicide prevention is “too little too late” and will not prevent people dying unnecessarily, an influential parliamentary committee has warned. In a damning report the health…Read more…
‘Buy off’ slammed
Unite urged BMW Group bosses to break the impasse and negotiate meaningfully when talks aimed at finding a resolution to the ongoing pension dispute reconvene tomorrow (March 22). Accusing the…Read more…
‘Come clean on STPs’
New figures uncovered today (March 21) by the Press Association (PA) have sparked outrage, as it was revealed that controversial sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) to reorganise the NHS…Read more…
‘Backbone of this industry’
Unite is building an alliance between the workforce and the industry to secure a future for the UK automotive sector. At a conference this Saturday (March 25), Unite will bring together…Read more…
Built for Britain
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will warn the government that it risks betraying steelworkers and their industry, if it fails to guarantee the use of UK steel in major infrastructure projects…Read more…
Don’t ‘rip off’ our youth call
Just days before National Apprenticeship Week – designed by the government “to celebrate apprenticeships and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy” – an…Read more…
‘Radical action’ call
Unite, the largest union for construction workers, is calling on the industry to take radical action to reduce the high number of suicides among its workforce. New analysis by the Office for…Read more…