Workers from leading companies across the north west are gathering in Liverpool for a conference today (February 2) specially convened by Unite, the UK’s biggest manufacturing union, to press for…Read more…
Working class musn’t pay for Brexit
Workers from leading companies across the north west will gather in Liverpool for a conference tomorrow (February 2) specially convened by Unite, the UK’s biggest manufacturing union, to press for…Read more…
Out of the mouths of babes
Croydon NHS is being forced to take the milk out of babies’ mouths in an attempt to save £30m this financial year. According to Croydon Council Commission Group it spends £395,000 per year on…Read more…
Priced out of justice
The government today (January 31) published a review into the introduction of Employment Tribunal (ET) fees and their impact, which showed a dramatic fall in the number of cases brought forward….Read more…
‘Bonkers’
Although trade unions are at the forefront of delivering and supporting apprenticeships across all industrial sectors, it was revealed on Friday (January 27) that not one trade union representative…Read more…
Community nurses’ jobs slash shocker
Demonstrators will gather outside the East Yorkshire headquarters of the Humber NHS Foundation Trust tomorrow (February 1), to protest against plans to slash health visitors and school nurses by 25…Read more…
Tata jobs – at a price
Tata steelworkers are set to vote in a ballot that opened today (January 30) over the company’s proposals to rescue the Port Talbot steelworks, commit to investment and save thousands of jobs across…Read more…
Choppers chopped out?
Business secretary Greg Clark is being asked why there is no mention of UK helicopter production in the government’s much-heralded industrial strategy. Unite has written to Greg Clark,…Read more…
Invest in HMRC call
Britain’s richest people seem to be getting preferential treatment from the taxman and are not being properly pursued for their outstanding tax bills, according to parliament’s spending watchdog….Read more…
Common cause
The leaders of Unite and a major global auto-maker have agreed to build common cause in defence of UK car manufacturing’s access to the European Union’s single market post-Brexit it was announced on…Read more…
End class pay bias call
The gender pay gap is well known and well documented – it now stands at just over 18 per cent in the UK. Likewise, the pay gap between white and black and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers has also long…Read more…
Get round the table call
Unite announced today (January 27) that its cabin crew members working for British Airways mixed fleet would take a further six days of strike action in their ongoing dispute over poverty pay, unless…Read more…
‘Matter resolved’
The dispute involving Morrisons’ supermarket petrol stations in London, the South East and East Anglia has been settled. Unite said today (January 27) that the 19 drivers, employed by…Read more…
Hebden’s hub!
Unite Community volunteers in West Yorkshire have come to the aid of a flood-hit Trades Club in the town of Hebden Bridge. Around 10 volunteers from across the region have been travelling to…Read more…
In solidarity
Woolwich Ferry workers took the first day of a 12-day strike action today (January 27) in support of a colleague who has been allegedly sexually harassed and over health and safety issues on the…Read more…
Pressure on MoD mounting
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are full of confidence as they gear up for their second 48-hour strike this month in their pensions’ dispute on Monday (January 30),…Read more…
Fighting ‘tooth-and-claw’
The plans to slash up to 1,100 jobs at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Ltd – 22 per cent of its UK workforce – will be fought ‘tooth-and-claw’, Unite pledged today (January 27). The union…Read more…
Together across borders
Workers Uniting — the global union formed by the United Steelworkers (USW) in North America and Unite the Union in the U.K. and Ireland, representing more than 2m workers in Canada, Ireland, the…Read more…
Stand by me
For many who work for the free Woolwich Ferry service – which has been in operation for 127 years – it’s in their blood. Just ask Unite member Gemma Drury, whose father was a ferry captain for…Read more…
A patient’s progress
I am relatively lucky in that I enjoy fairly good health and rarely have to use the NHS. In fact since moving to my current home over two and a half years ago I have yet to make a personal…Read more…