Despite a drop in overall revenue caused in part by a fall in the number of letters Britons sent, the Royal Mail had a successful Christmas, with Royal Mail CEO Moya Greene praising staff today…Read more…
Where have all the banks gone?
Bank branches once played a central part in many local communities, but each successive year after the financial crisis has seen more and more of their doors close as banks attempt to cut costs….Read more…
‘Landmark ruling’
A total of 56 Unite members at a South Yorkshire firm are set to receive ‘compensation’ payments of up to £7,600 each, after bosses tried to by-pass their recognised union and put a pay offer…Read more…
First-class pay deal
Pay for thousands of Virgin Atlantic Airlines crew has taken off after constructive negotiations between Unite and Virgin delivered a pay deal worth more than double the current rate of inflation…Read more…
Workforce betrayed
Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey will tell striking workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – tomorrow (January 19) that defence secretary Michael Fallon needs to honour…Read more…
BA strike goes on
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey and shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP will be joining British Airways’ mixed fleet cabin crew on picket lines at Heathrow tomorrow (January 19), on the first…Read more…
Welcome wheelchair ruling
Unite called on bus companies to put in place guidance and procedures for bus drivers following today’s (January 18) Supreme Court ruling over wheelchair spaces on buses. While welcoming the…Read more…
Yet more uncertainty
Prime minister Theresa May gave her clearest picture yet of what the government will be seeking as it leaves the European Union yesterday (January 17) in a landmark speech. But still more…Read more…
Keep your pensions promises
Tomorrow, 600 workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) will start staging two 48-hour strikes this month in the long-running ‘broken promises’ pensions’ row. To fight for…Read more…
Empowering workers
Unite has launched a powerful new online tool to help workers across Britain protect themselves from attacks on their pay following the fallout from Brexit, and rising inflation. Rising…Read more…
‘On the edge of collapse’
GPs, already facing unconscionable workloads working for an underfunded and understaffed NHS, were threatened by prime minister Theresa May at the weekend (January 14) with even more cuts to their…Read more…
More than just one ‘blue’ day
Yesterday (January 16) was Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year and it falls each year on the third Monday of January. For many the end of the Christmas period is hard –…Read more…
Don’t throw our jobs under a bus
It is time to stop the posturing. Far too many people in public life are discussing Brexit as if it is a parlour game all about political positioning. It is not. Jobs are at stake and with…Read more…
Hunt ‘come clean’
The cash-strapped NHS could be spending up to £15m on management consultants for advice on the secretive shake-up of the health service in England, Unite has warned today. Unite, with 100,000…Read more…
Credit debt blues
As millions of Britons settle back into the first few weeks of work following the festive season, we know all too well that the party’s over, the feasts have been eaten, the presents opened and we’re…Read more…
‘No time to waste’
As prime minister Theresa May continues to ignore the mounting funding problems faced by the NHS — whose ongoing crisis was most shockingly exemplified by the story of a sick baby being treated on…Read more…
Decent basic rights call
Angry dock workers at Liverpool’s Seaforth container terminal working for Peel Ports have had enough and pictured today (January 13) are Unite members protesting over the atrocious poor conditions…Read more…
Justice fight goes on
Up to 300 workers, members of Unite are continuing to take strike action today (January 13). But in a goodwill gesture, Unite is suspending the strike action scheduled for Thursday (January…Read more…
Anti-austerity’s frontline fighters
Volunteer benefits adviser John Kelly has got used to seeing people on the breadline in distress because their welfare has been stopped or sanctioned, but that doesn’t make it any easier in the heart…Read more…
Members fight on for pay justice
British Airways’ ‘mixed fleet’ cabin crew working on long and short haul flights out of Heathrow Airport will be taking part in a three day strike next week in their dispute over poverty pay, Unite…Read more…