Just days before National Apprenticeship Week – designed by the government “to celebrate apprenticeships and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy” – an…Read more…
‘Radical action’ call
Unite, the largest union for construction workers, is calling on the industry to take radical action to reduce the high number of suicides among its workforce. New analysis by the Office for…Read more…
Pay deal rejected
Members of Scotland’s biggest offshore trade union have voted to reject a pay offer. In a consultative ballot, 81 per cent of Unite members voted to reject the latest deal put forward by their…Read more…
Don’t tolerate racism
More than a third of the UK’s Black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) population have witnessed or been subject to racist abuse in the seven months since the referendum vote, a TUC poll has found….Read more…
‘Entirely inaccurate’
Responding to the claims made today (March 20) in the national media by Tom Watson MP, deputy leader of the Labour party, Unite’s acting general secretary Gail Cartmail said, “Tom Watson has made…Read more…
Battle of Grangemouth
The author of a new book on the Grangemouth refinery says it’s wrong that such an important national asset is in the hands of just one billionaire. In The Battle of Grangemouth, former…Read more…
BP/Ineos talks spark jobs fears
Fears over hundreds of jobs and pensions were stoked last night (March 16), as it unexpectedly emerged that oil giant BP has been in talks with the petrochemicals firm Ineos – a company with a…Read more…
Fujitsu jobs battle
Striking workers at the IT giant Fujitsu are to step up their industrial action with a further two days of strike action on Friday, March 24 and Monday, March 27 as they battle to defend their jobs,…Read more…
Save Bromley libraries
The Bromley public has been asked ‘to rise up and make their voice heard’, otherwise the borough’s 14 libraries will be privatised, with expected severe cutbacks in services. The call to…Read more…
‘End iniquitous practises’ plea
Lorry drivers across Europe and the UK have spoken out about exploitative working conditions and wage cutting in the industry, with some being forced to live in their cabs for months on end. A…Read more…
Emergency Brexit conference
With now daily reminders that a ‘hard’ Brexit will prove extremely challenging for the UK’s car manufacturing industry, Unite is building an alliance between the workforce and the industry to secure…Read more…
Sweet deal
Unite, the foremost experts on negotiating pay in Scotland have launched a blueprint for boosting workers’ pay amid rising inflation and slow pay growth in 2017. Unite negotiated an 8.7 per…Read more…
End ‘Brexit confusion’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey warned that employers and workers would be left ‘reeling’ by yesterday’s (March 15) evidence given by the Brexit minister David Davis MP to the select…Read more…
Toyota confirms investment
Unite welcomed Toyota’s confirmation of a platform upgrade at its Burnaston plant today (March 16), but urged the government to state now, that it will secure tariff free access to the European…Read more…
‘Vanity project’
David Cameron’s National Citizen Service (NCS) was always an ill-conceived ‘vanity project’, now that it’s been shown to be a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money, it needs a radical re-think if it’s…Read more…
NHS report claims ‘inappropriate rationing’
Patients are being left to die in pain because NHS treatment is being rationed, a shocking new report has found. Palliative care patients are being left for hours without treatment due to…Read more…
One in ten
Once thought to be a passing trend born of the financial crisis 10 years ago, zero hours contracts — where workers don’t know when or even if they’ll be working from one day to the next — now look…Read more…
‘Outlaw zero hours now’
Exploitative zero-hour contracts have rocketed in the north east of England in recent years, new TUC research reveals. Two thirds of all the new jobs created in the region since 2011 have been…Read more…
‘Stuck in a twilight zone’
Earlier this week, Unite helped uncover an all-too common practice in the restaurant industry at exclusive restaurant chain the Ivy Collection – management charging customers “service charges” that…Read more…
The health visitor vanishes?
After the government launched a concerted drive to recruit more health visitors – whose numbers had over the years become dangerously low – a disaster was averted, as targets set in 2011 to train…Read more…