Labour will fight for a Brexit which delivers “strong relations” with the EU and preserves the UK’s ability to trade in goods and services with the continent. In a major speech in London, Keir…Read more…
‘Excellent’ Nissan pay deal
A two-year pay deal for about 7,400 employees at car giant Nissan was hailed by Unite today (December 13), as ‘excellent news’ that rewards a dedicated workforce. The workforce accepted the…Read more…
‘Paying over the odds’
Bringing Scotland’s crisis-hit bus industry back into public hands could generate up to £76m a year to improve services, according to research for Unite. Unite commissioned Transport for…Read more…
Christmas ‘havoc’
The delivery of Christmas gifts from Argos, such as iPhones, could be seriously disrupted as drivers are set to strike for 72 hours over the failure to honour holiday back pay, Unite warned today…Read more…
Sacked for grieving
There’s nothing more difficult than losing a family member. Grieving takes time – time for which most bosses will give their workers off from work. But not so for Shaun Bate of Liverpool,…Read more…
Surgery performed with plasters
Desperate ministers considering hiking council tax in order to ease the social care crisis have been told their plan will not work by Tory party colleagues, because of “out of control” funding…Read more…
Fujitsu strike continues
About 300 workers at IT giant Fujitsu in Manchester will strike for 72 hours, starting tomorrow (December 10), in the long-running dispute over pay, pensions and job security. The strike,…Read more…
Wot, no Tories?
Dozens of Labour MPs came out to support Unite’s foodbank Christmas appeal in conjunction with the Mirror’s Real Britain and the Trussell Trust on Wednesday (December 7) just outside Parliament….Read more…
‘People deserve better’
At Unite’s ‘pop-up’ foodbank outside Parliament this week (December 7), we spoke to Labour MPs Ian Mearns and Lisa Nandy (pictured), as well as foodbank manager Nathan Jones. …Read more…
Making a difference
Unite has teamed up with the Trussell Trust and the Mirror’s Real Britain in a Christmas appeal in support of foodbanks. On Wednesday (December 7), Labour MPs came to support the appeal…Read more…
When work doesn’t pay
More than 7m people from working families are living in poverty with high rents and insecure tenancies often to blame, a damning new study has found. The report, carried out by the New Policy…Read more…
Get Glasgow moving
Campaigners are to lobby councillors at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport demanding affordable, joined-up public transport in Glasgow. And the Get Glasgow Moving campaign is also taking…Read more…
Legal action threat
Unite has threatened to take legal action after staff working on Glasgow’s new waste power plant were locked out of the the site and paid off with just a week’s notice. Glasgow City Council…Read more…
People before profit
Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control. Members of Unite Community’s Dundee branch set up…Read more…
Step in the right direction
Unite along with other steel unions have yesterday (December 7) secured a commitment from Tata Steel to secure the future of jobs and production at Port Talbot and other steelworks across the UK….Read more…
Justice for Colombia
Theresa May should use her freshly renewed ties with Colombia’s president to aid the fragile peace process and help secure the release of political prisoners in the South American nation, said a…Read more…
‘Lots of work to do’
Karen Debouze (pictured, right), who has used foodbanks, on her experience of having her benefits stopped for five months: “What most people don’t realise about people whose benefits are…Read more…
‘We must help each other’
Unable to work, Karen’s only lifeline has been Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the disability and illness benefit which allowed her to get by. But her life suddenly turned upside down when her…Read more…
‘Don’t mess with our pensions’
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – who staged a successful lobby of MPs today (December 6) over their pensions’ ‘betrayal’, have pledged to continue the fight into…Read more…
‘In the hands of the membership’
The Executive Council of Unite has today (December 6) agreed that the timetable for the election of the union’s general secretary will be brought forward to the first months of 2017. This will…Read more…