People across Scotland are backing Unite’s Haud the Bus campaign to bring buses back under public ownership. Unite’s Community section set up the ‘Haud the Bus’ campaign to protest against…Read more…
Rethink bank branch closures
Unite the union has urged MSPs to back a motion calling on RBS and other banks to think again about ‘slash and burn’ branch closures. Last week, RBS announced plans to close a further 86…Read more…
Passenger safety threat
Plans to strip Network Rail of complete control of England’s railway tracks are a retrograde step that raises the spectre of the Hatfield train crash in 2000 which happened under the watch of…Read more…
Foodbank comes to parliament
Unite is calling on MPs from across the political divide to take a stand against UK hunger by supporting the Hope not Hunger pop-up foodbank when it comes to parliament on Wednesday (December 7)….Read more…
‘Forgotten face’ of insecure work
Unite and the TUC have called for stricter legislation to prevent the exploitation of agency workers, after a study found that 1m people will be working for employment agencies in Britain by 2020….Read more…
Blacklisting: justice fight goes on
While trade unionists spent years being monitored by construction firms in a shocking blacklisting scandal uncovered seven years ago, with many workers not being able to find work for decades, it is…Read more…
UPS parcel strike off
Strikes scheduled for Wednesday (December 7) and Friday (December 9) by UPS parcel workers at the delivery firm’s Camden depot have been called off Unite announced today (December 5). Over 140…Read more…
‘Draconian’ management style
Unite working at the Doncaster waste transfer station will be taking part in a one-day strike on December 12 over a ‘draconian’ management style and a ‘derisory’ pay offer which will leave workers 30…Read more…
Pension scheme ‘betrayal’
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – will be lobbying MPs over their pensions’ ‘betrayal’ at the Houses of Parliament tomorrow (December 6). The lobby will coincide…Read more…
‘More than tinkering at the edges’
Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner on buy-to-let tax loopholes: “Solving the housing crisis and protecting private tenants facing spiralling rents will require a lot more than…Read more…
At the mercy of landlords
Buy-to-let landlords are using loopholes to avoid new taxes which come into effect April of next year, with many saying that they intend to hike up rents, according to a new report. Chancellor…Read more…
Recognise our value
Shipbuilders on the Clyde breathed a sigh of relief when the UK government announced last month that work on the Type-26 frigate programme would begin in earnest next summer, after the project had…Read more…
Hope not hunger
Unite is teaming up with anti-poverty charity Trussell Trust and calling on the public to help families facing hunger this Christmas as foodbanks’ busiest month of the year begins. Find out…Read more…
‘They simply don’t care’
Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner on benefits sanctions: “There is not one shred of evidence showing that benefits sanctions help people get back into work. But for those who do…Read more…
‘Death by a thousand cuts’
Unite has expressed ‘bitter disappointment’ over further bank branch closures announced by RBS Group. Unite, the largest union representing RBS staff, said the taxpayer-owned bank was…Read more…
Bus dispute settled
The five-month old pay dispute involving bus drivers in Weymouth and Bridport in Dorset has been settled. The deal was thrashed out in talks between senior management from First Group, the…Read more…
Benefits sanctions a failure
The Tory government’s benefits sanctions regime, which has brought misery to millions and in some cases has even been fatal, continues unabated under the assumption that it works – that it gets…Read more…
Broken promises
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – will be staging a second 24-hour strike on Tuesday (December 6) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension…Read more…
BA staff shortage threat
‘Bargain bucket’ pay rates for Mixed Fleet cabin crew at British Airways could lead to recruitment and retention problems for the UK’s national carrier warned Unite. The warning follows an…Read more…
More wage pain
British workers are facing the worst long term decline of their pay for 70 years, a respected think tank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned that Brexit will stagnate wage…Read more…