Chancellor Philip Hammond needs to use next week’s autumn statement to financially reboot the UK’s crisis hit youth services which have seen 3,000 jobs axed in the last decade. The call will…Read more…
Awareness is all
Unite member Paddy Cunningham, a transport worker, suffered from depression which adversely affected his job. He believes awareness of mental health conditions is the most crucial first step in…Read more…
Punished – for depression
Paddy Cunningham, a rail signal-box worker, fell seriously ill and, like any of us would, he took time off from work. He eventually recovered and was eager to return to the job. But his…Read more…
‘Truly regressive’
Employers in Northern Ireland have been instructed by the department of communities to act as benefit debt collectors with the power to deduct up to 40 per cent of people’s net earnings, Unite has…Read more…
Wrong and misguided
Struggling families in Nottinghamshire will suffer the most from plans to axe up to 60 health visitors in the area because of the government’s pressure on the NHS to make savings. Garry Guye,…Read more…
Reverse austerity call
Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner agreed with shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, today (November 15) when McDonnell urged the government to take concrete steps to bring shared prosperity…Read more…
Actions speak loudest
Prime minister Theresa May used her first speech following Donald Trump’s US election victory to castigate the financial elite for being out of touch with ordinary people – at an event where May and…Read more…
‘Step in the right direction’
A memorandum of understanding between the global trade union, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and Supreme Committee for the Delivery and Legacy (SC) of the 2022 Qatar World Cup is an…Read more…
Orgreave: ‘Shameful stitch up’
Ever since the Cabinet Papers relating to the Battle of Orgreave were published in 2012, campaigners have been calling for a full public inquiry into exactly what happened that day in 1984. But this…Read more…
Fujitsu strikes again
A third wave of strikes at IT giant Fujitsu in Manchester for 48 hours, starting tomorrow (November 16), in the pay, pensions and job security dispute will mar a top international company event….Read more…
Pilot strike looms
Unite today (November 14) announced that pilots at the Dublin-based airline CityJet are set to strike before Christmas. The vast majority — 82 per cent of pilots — represented by the…Read more…
End bullying call
An industrial action ballot involving 1,050 bus drivers working for Arriva Southern Counties opens today (November 14) over fears that a new ‘mystery shopper’ scheme will be used to fire experienced…Read more…
‘Don’t trash our NHS’
Unite’s response on learning that Virgin Care has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial £700m deal by Tory-led Bath and North…Read more…
Does the end of the NHS start here?
Virgin has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial £700m deal by a Tory-led council. Richard Branson’s Virgin Care is poised to…Read more…
Pensions fight
Unite South East regional secretary Jenny Formby (pictured right) joined hundreds of striking Unite members today (November 14) who are taking a stand against their employer, Atomic Weapons…Read more…
The bus stops here
Over 800 Unite bus drivers at five Arriva depots in West and North Yorkshire were today on strike (November 14). The 24-hour walk out was aimed – in a period of rising prices – at…Read more…
Give us a break
More than 850 Arriva bus drivers in West Yorkshire, members of Unite, went on strike today (November 14) in a dispute over pay and shifts. At the moment, bus workers drive up to five and half hours…Read more…
The freedom to organise
Fifty years ago – on November 10, 1966 an industrial dispute began in Stockport, which attracted national media coverage; saw mass picketing; international solidarity action and the eventual…Read more…
Hands off our pensions
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are staging a 24-hour strike today (November 14) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension scheme and…Read more…
Kept in the dark
The top management proposing 221 job losses at the Yeovil GKN plant, which makes airframes for helicopters, was accused of ‘supercilious behaviour’ in its treatment of the workforce. Unite…Read more…