Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, will address representatives from the three Vauxhall plants today (February 27) on Unite’s fight to defend thousands of UK car industry jobs. McCluskey…Read more…
Stop bank closure call
The 72 per cent taxpayer-owned bank RBS – which benefited from a £45bn bailout after the financial crisis – today (February 24) reported its ninth consecutive year of losses, as it struggles to pay…Read more…
Further BA strikes
Members of Unite working as cabin crew for British Airways mixed fleet announced a further round of seven days of strikes today (February 24) in their ongoing pay dispute, taking the total number of…Read more…
‘Give hope for the future’
Unite says it is disappointed that the Scottish Government has failed to agree to invest in offshore infrastructure. The union was reacting following a Members Debate today (February 23)…Read more…
‘Hidden cuts’ agenda
Argos’ plans to transfer nearly 500 workers from its Lutterworth distribution hub in Leicestershire to Kettering, Northamptonshire are widening out to become a countrywide dispute. Unite is…Read more…
Sanctioned to sleeping rough
The government’s despised benefit sanctions regime has pushed people into sleeping rough, a scathing report by MPs has concluded. The cruel measures that punish claimants for missing or being…Read more…
A people’s Brexit
The government has “wrapped Brexit up in fake patriotic posturing” and must not be allowed to turn Britain into “bargain basement tax haven”, Jeremy Corbyn said today. Speaking at the Road to…Read more…
‘Relatively positive’ meeting
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey met with Peugeot boss Carlos Tavares this morning (February 24) to press the case for maintaining the two Vauxhall plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton and the…Read more…
Wage exploitation
Umbrella companies are a curse and in recent years they have spread from construction to many other sectors including logistics, warehousing, supply teaching and pharmaceuticals. Workers…Read more…
‘Speedy changes’ concerns
Worries over Vauxhall’s future were heightened today (February 23) after it emerged that Carlos Tavares, chief executive of French carmaker PSA Group which owns Peugeot, said he was hoping to…Read more…
Welcome committment
Unite Scotland has welcomed a commitment by the First Minister to look at bringing fair pay to the union’s members at Marine Scotland. Highland and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant raised the…Read more…
Bottom of the table
Poorer families in the UK are much less likely to own their home than their counterparts abroad, new research that highlights Britain’s chronic housing crisis shows. According to Organisation…Read more…
‘Strengthening our industrial voice’
Unite hosted a Migrant Workers Conference on Wednesday (February 22), which was held at the union’s central office in London and hosted a wide range of speakers including Unite executive…Read more…
‘Line in the sand’
A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS in London needs to be drawn, Unite has said. The latest cause for controversy is at King’s College Hospital (KCH) NHS Foundation…Read more…
Bus journeys plummet
Unite the union says new figures show that Scotland’s free-for-all privatised bus services are in chaos – with passengers getting a worse service despite increased public subsidy. New Scottish…Read more…
Undermining workers’ rights
Members of Unite at the Faslane and Coulport naval bases on the Clyde are to vote on industrial action, accusing their employer of attacking worker rights. Unite says that Babcock Marine is…Read more…
Buy a stake in our future
Unite is calling on the Scottish government to back a Holyrood motion calling for public investment in the oil and gas industry. A motion from North East Scotland Labour MSP Lewis Macdonald is…Read more…
‘Systematic undermining’
The NHS ethos is being further undermined in Yorkshire’s East Riding with the ‘whitewash’ awarding of a community health services contract to a ‘better profit business’, Unite said today (February…Read more…
Fallon – speak to us call
Unite members who work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (Aldermaston and Burghfield) took their campaign for pension justice to the MoD in Whitehall yesterday (February 21). On the ninth…Read more…
Bargaining table power
A study conducted by Unite across 50 of its biggest private sector workplaces throughout London and the East of England reveals that in 96 per cent of workplaces where Unite negotiates pay, the union…Read more…