Just a day after BMW justified its pension scheme closure plans by calling the scheme “unsustainable and unaffordable” in a statement on Wednesday (April 19), the car firm posted skyrocketing…Read more…
Protect public health call
Health visitors and school nurses are holding a campaign meeting in the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday (April 26) to hammer out a checklist for prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs), which…Read more…
Where do you stand?
A new film by Unite is highlighting the need to protect the United Kingdom’s crucial automotive sector from the uncertainty of a hard Brexit during the run up to the general election on June…Read more…
Hidden power
As the shock subsides, the reality sets in – little more than two years after having had a general election, Britons brace themselves for yet another one on June 8. Election fatigue may make…Read more…
‘Excellent turnout’
Japan’s ambassador to the UK has been asked to intervene in the current dispute involving the IT giant Fujitsu which could see 1,800 job losses. Unite today (April 21) handed in a letter to…Read more…
Open skies?
The UK aviation industry’s chance of a successful post-Brexit takeoff could be hindered because of Theresa May’s shock announcement of a general election on June 8, Unite has warned. Even…Read more…
Stop pensions robbery
Watch Unite plant convenor Norman Gough explain why workers have been driven to hold the first ever strikes yesterday (April 19) by BMW’s UK workforce in our exclusive video below. There were also…Read more…
Ferry strike called off
Tomorrow’s strike (April 21) that would have hit travellers using the Woolwich Ferry has been suspended, as ‘positive progress’ has been made in talks today (April 20) in the dispute over a bullying…Read more…
Hinkley Point delay risk
Delays to the construction of the Hinkley Point nuclear power station could be on the cards, if a dispute over bonus payments flares up into industrial action, the unions have warned. Unite…Read more…
Lives uprooted
Hundreds of homeless families from London are being forced to uproot their lives and move to private rented accommodation miles outside the capital or else face having their support cut off, new…Read more…
Fighting for respect
For hundreds of workers at the BMW Mini plant in Cowley, just outside of Oxford, today (April 19) was their first ever day of strike action after working loyally for the same company for decades….Read more…
Solid support
A 24 hour strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini was being solidly supported today (April 19), as workers mounted picket lines and production lines lay idle over the luxury carmaker’s…Read more…
Weetabix takeover
Unite has asked for an urgent meeting with the new American owner of Weetabix to seek assurances about job security. Unite represents more than 110 members, including engineering and technical…Read more…
Choice for positive change
Responding to today’s (April 18) announcement by prime minister Theresa May of a general election on June 8, Unite acting general secretary Gail Cartmail said, “The prime minister has gone back on…Read more…
‘First ever’ strike
BMW production lines making the Mini and car engines face disruption tomorrow (April 19) with car workers starting a series of 24 hour strikes as part of a programme of industrial action stretching…Read more…
‘Partners in productivity’
As the deadline for responses to the government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper closes, it’s worth taking stock of the extent to which things have moved on and how much further there is still to…Read more…
‘Short changed’ over pay
Thousands of trainee bus drivers in London have been ‘short changed’ by the majority of bus companies not paying the agreed London living wage, Unite has said. The union said it had evidence…Read more…
War on late payments
Jeremy Corbyn said on Tuesday (April 11) that a Labour government would “declare war” on the late payment of invoices, describing the issue as a £26bn “national scandal”. The Labour leader…Read more…
Ferry strike off
Tuesday’s 24-hour strike (April 18) that would have hit travellers using the Woolwich Ferry has been suspended, as talks in the dispute over a bullying culture make progress. Unite said today…Read more…
Harry’s first podcast
Friend of Unite, Second World War veteran, bestselling author and anti-austerity campaigner Harry Leslie Smith has at 94 years of age decided to try his hand at his very own podcast. In his first…Read more…