A memorandum of understanding between the global trade union, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and Supreme Committee for the Delivery and Legacy (SC) of the 2022 Qatar World Cup is an…Read more…
Orgreave: ‘Shameful stitch up’
Ever since the Cabinet Papers relating to the Battle of Orgreave were published in 2012, campaigners have been calling for a full public inquiry into exactly what happened that day in 1984. But this…Read more…
Fujitsu strikes again
A third wave of strikes at IT giant Fujitsu in Manchester for 48 hours, starting tomorrow (November 16), in the pay, pensions and job security dispute will mar a top international company event….Read more…
Pilot strike looms
Unite today (November 14) announced that pilots at the Dublin-based airline CityJet are set to strike before Christmas. The vast majority — 82 per cent of pilots — represented by the…Read more…
End bullying call
An industrial action ballot involving 1,050 bus drivers working for Arriva Southern Counties opens today (November 14) over fears that a new ‘mystery shopper’ scheme will be used to fire experienced…Read more…
‘Don’t trash our NHS’
Unite’s response on learning that Virgin Care has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial £700m deal by Tory-led Bath and North…Read more…
Does the end of the NHS start here?
Virgin has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial £700m deal by a Tory-led council. Richard Branson’s Virgin Care is poised to…Read more…
Pensions fight
Unite South East regional secretary Jenny Formby (pictured right) joined hundreds of striking Unite members today (November 14) who are taking a stand against their employer, Atomic Weapons…Read more…
The bus stops here
Over 800 Unite bus drivers at five Arriva depots in West and North Yorkshire were today on strike (November 14). The 24-hour walk out was aimed – in a period of rising prices – at…Read more…
Give us a break
More than 850 Arriva bus drivers in West Yorkshire, members of Unite, went on strike today (November 14) in a dispute over pay and shifts. At the moment, bus workers drive up to five and half hours…Read more…
The freedom to organise
Fifty years ago – on November 10, 1966 an industrial dispute began in Stockport, which attracted national media coverage; saw mass picketing; international solidarity action and the eventual…Read more…
Hands off our pensions
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are staging a 24-hour strike today (November 14) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension scheme and…Read more…
Kept in the dark
The top management proposing 221 job losses at the Yeovil GKN plant, which makes airframes for helicopters, was accused of ‘supercilious behaviour’ in its treatment of the workforce. Unite…Read more…
Any deliverance for the deliverers?
When we think of someone who is self-employed, we often imagine an enterprising entrepreneur, someone who decides exactly when they themselves work, and for how long. It might be hard…Read more…
‘Cruel and unnecessary’
“The bedroom tax is a cruel and unnecessary policy. It is widely despised by the British public, who see it what for what it is; a callous attempt to punish low-income, social housing tenants. …Read more…
‘Poverty pay’ vote
Thousands of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ will begin voting on strike action next Wednesday (November 16) in a dispute over ‘poverty’ pay levels which are leading to crew…Read more…
Bedroom tax win
The Supreme Court has delivered a blow to Tory welfare policy by ruling that two families were discriminated against by the government’s hated “bedroom tax”. The ruling, in favour of a spina…Read more…
‘We should not have to wait’
“It’s been estimated that if we continue on the same path we have been, it’ll take another 170 years before women finally achieve equal pay. We’ve already waited nearly 50 years since the Equal…Read more…
Because you’re a woman…
One of the biggest misconceptions about the gender pay gap – which remains stubbornly high at nearly 14 per cent – is that it’s all a myth. There’s this idea that women earn less because they…Read more…
Pay and safety strike
Over 850 Arriva bus drivers operating out of five depots across West Yorkshire will be taking part in a 24-hour strike on Monday, November 14 in a dispute over pay and shifts which see them being…Read more…