The cash-strapped NHS could be spending up to £15m on management consultants for advice on the secretive shake-up of the health service in England. Unite, with 100,000 members in the health…Read more…
Unite slam council leader’s double standards
Tory-controlled Portsmouth city council seems ‘hell-bent’ on worsening industrial relations by slashing the funding for trade union reps who represent workers, Unite said today (February 3). …Read more…
Burton bus deal good news
Bus drivers working for Midland Classic at the Burton on Trent bus garage can look forward to a strong collective voice at work, Unite announced today (February 3), after it signed a recognition…Read more…
Income inequality worst since Thatcher
This Conservative government looks set to usher in an era of rising income inequality not seen since the time of Margaret Thatcher, according to a new report published yesterday (February 1). …Read more…
Unite’s first Brexit conference – GS speech
(Check against delivery) Good morning and thanks to our North West Region’s invite to speak at this important conference on Brexit – and the effects leaving the European Union will have on our…Read more…
‘Trump Tower’ deals spell harm
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has warned that working class communities face the `fight of their lifetimes’ to fend off a ‘hard’ exit from the European Union. He issued the warning…Read more…
Working for the best Brexit
Workers from leading companies across the north west are gathering in Liverpool for a conference today (February 2) specially convened by Unite, the UK’s biggest manufacturing union, to press for…Read more…
Working class musn’t pay for Brexit
Workers from leading companies across the north west will gather in Liverpool for a conference tomorrow (February 2) specially convened by Unite, the UK’s biggest manufacturing union, to press for…Read more…
Out of the mouths of babes
Croydon NHS is being forced to take the milk out of babies’ mouths in an attempt to save £30m this financial year. According to Croydon Council Commission Group it spends £395,000 per year on…Read more…
Priced out of justice
The government today (January 31) published a review into the introduction of Employment Tribunal (ET) fees and their impact, which showed a dramatic fall in the number of cases brought forward….Read more…
‘Bonkers’
Although trade unions are at the forefront of delivering and supporting apprenticeships across all industrial sectors, it was revealed on Friday (January 27) that not one trade union representative…Read more…
Community nurses’ jobs slash shocker
Demonstrators will gather outside the East Yorkshire headquarters of the Humber NHS Foundation Trust tomorrow (February 1), to protest against plans to slash health visitors and school nurses by 25…Read more…
Tata jobs – at a price
Tata steelworkers are set to vote in a ballot that opened today (January 30) over the company’s proposals to rescue the Port Talbot steelworks, commit to investment and save thousands of jobs across…Read more…
Choppers chopped out?
Business secretary Greg Clark is being asked why there is no mention of UK helicopter production in the government’s much-heralded industrial strategy. Unite has written to Greg Clark,…Read more…
Invest in HMRC call
Britain’s richest people seem to be getting preferential treatment from the taxman and are not being properly pursued for their outstanding tax bills, according to parliament’s spending watchdog….Read more…
Common cause
The leaders of Unite and a major global auto-maker have agreed to build common cause in defence of UK car manufacturing’s access to the European Union’s single market post-Brexit it was announced on…Read more…
End class pay bias call
The gender pay gap is well known and well documented – it now stands at just over 18 per cent in the UK. Likewise, the pay gap between white and black and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers has also long…Read more…
Get round the table call
Unite announced today (January 27) that its cabin crew members working for British Airways mixed fleet would take a further six days of strike action in their ongoing dispute over poverty pay, unless…Read more…
‘Matter resolved’
The dispute involving Morrisons’ supermarket petrol stations in London, the South East and East Anglia has been settled. Unite said today (January 27) that the 19 drivers, employed by…Read more…
Hebden’s hub!
Unite Community volunteers in West Yorkshire have come to the aid of a flood-hit Trades Club in the town of Hebden Bridge. Around 10 volunteers from across the region have been travelling to…Read more…