Unite said today’s (May 2) announcement that Liberty House had formally completed a £100m deal to acquire the speciality steel division of Tata Steel UK, was testament to the skills and resolve of…Read more…
Royal Mail pensions talks
The talks with the Royal Mail over plans to close its pension scheme in its current form are ‘complex and difficult’, Unite warned today (April 28). Unite, which has about 6,000 members…Read more…
May Day solidarity
As workers across the world prepare to gather on May Day (Monday May 1), Unite’s international director Simon Dubbins explains why now, more than ever, we must renew our commitment to…Read more…
Nestle U-turn slammed
Nestle is cutting up to 27 per cent of the Blue Riband workforce, as it moves production to Poland, despite promising not to make any ‘radical cost-cutting’, says Unite and the GMB. Earlier…Read more…
‘One death is one too many’
Just as Unite members, mostly in construction, gathered at the building worker’s statue in London to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) today (April 28), news broke that yet another of…Read more…
‘Ticking time bomb’
On International Worker’s Memorial Day, the motto is ‘Remember the dead and fight for the living’. In the fifth and final part of our Workers’ Memorial Day series, we…Read more…
Only point of contact
Health visitors play a vital role in identifying domestic slavery victims, a community nursing organisation has said. The Institute for Health Visiting (IHV) said health visitors may be the…Read more…
Ringfence the budget
Prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) in June’s general election will be invited to see the work community nurses do on a daily basis as part of the campaign to make the case for ‘public…Read more…
McDonald’s offers fixed hours
One of the world’s largest fast food chains, McDonald’s, will now offer its 115,000-strong UK workforce – all previously on zero hours contracts – guaranteed minimum hours on fixed contracts, with 1…Read more…
‘You wouldn’t believe the pain’
In part 4 of our Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite’s Gary Fairclough, who tells of a harrowing workplace accident that took him years to recover. When Gary Fairclough…Read more…
Work till you drop
Punishing long hours’ culture in many professional kitchens is putting the mental and physical health of chefs in London at risk, a snapshot survey by Unite has revealed. Almost half (44 per…Read more…
Window makers strike
Workers at Sierra Windows in Paignton, Devon started a 48-hour strike today (April 26) in a dispute over pay and an imposed change to shift patterns. Unite called on the ‘secretive’ management…Read more…
Workers’ lives at risk
Unite is warning that workers’ lives are being placed at risk due to the cut in the number of frontline health and safety inspectors. Figures obtained by Unite, via a Freedom of Information…Read more…
Jobs come first
Labour’s Brexit plan has been unveiled during a general election campaign speech by Sir Keir Starmer. The shadow Brexit secretary said yesterday (April 25) a Labour government would axe…Read more…
‘We didn’t come to work to die’
In part 3 of UNITElive’s International Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite shop steward Neal Hodkinson about his fight against asbestos. While accidents in the…Read more…
Export chocolate, not jobs
Unite and the GMB and have slammed Nestle for proposing 300 job losses as it moves production of the iconic Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to Poland. The confectionary giant is making the…Read more…
Acknowledge our proposals
Pension proposals by workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – to break the logjam in their long-running pensions’ dispute have been ignored, Unite said today (April 25)….Read more…
Fight for the living
Friends and families who have lost loved ones to workplace fatalities are having to wait an agonising 3 years 4 months to secure justice , according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request made by…Read more…
Food bank Britain
As families already struggling under a generation of austerity are doubly hit by the introduction of Universal Credit, food bank use has skyrocketed and now stands at an all-time high. The…Read more…
Never forget
In part 2 of our series in the run-up to International Workers’ Memorial Day on Friday (April 28), UNITElive hears from Andy Wilson, Unite senior shop steward at East Ayrshire, who recounts…Read more…