Unite is holding crunch talks with the management of Link 51 in Telford tomorrow (November 3) to mitigate the 69 job losses announced in the pallet racking business. Link 51, part of…Read more…
Living Wage changes lives
For thousands of workers up and down the country, the Living Wage – not the government’s bogus rebranding but the ‘real’ Living Wage – has changed lives to the tune of thousands a year. For…Read more…
Strike for justice
Strike action could be on the cards at a major cereal manufacturer in Wiltshire after a manufacturing operative was sacked unfairly. Justin Beckett, a Unite rep at Cereal Partners in…Read more…
Building a strong future
Construction workers will have one powerful union voice on their side fighting for them from January 1, 2017 as members of UCATT voted by 85.5 per cent to merge with Unite today (Wednesday 2). …Read more…
Save our libraries, museums and galleries
Unite will be joining librarians and campaigners in a joint march with Unison and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union to save our libraries, museums and galleries on Saturday (November 5)….Read more…
Massive vote for pension strike
Bosses at AWE Plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are being urged to have urgent talks, after staff voted overwhelmingly to strike over the threat to close the defined benefit pension scheme and…Read more…
Cut – sex scene censors?
The chances of scenes from sexually explicit films getting through the censors’ net, with serious implications for child protection, could increase if five examiners are axed, Unite warned today…Read more…
Do the right thing
“Supporting the accredited living wage is quite simply the right thing to do; it improves our employees’ quality of life but also benefits our business and society as a whole.” Everton FC…Read more…
Living wage: Everton FC signs up
Everton FC has become the second Premier League side to pledge to pay its staff a real living wage. The Liverpool-based club has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF), which…Read more…
BMW: ‘Pensions robbery’
BMW group car workers who make the iconic Mini and prestigious Rolls-Royce begin voting in a consultative action ballot today (October 31) amid accusations of a ‘pensions robbery’ over the carmaker’s…Read more…
Establishment ‘stitch up’ slammed
The home secretary Amber Rudd has today rejected calls for any kind of inquiry into violent policing at the Battle of Orgreave, in a move described as an “establishment stitch-up.” Rudd ruled…Read more…
‘Salami-sliced’ pensions ‘frenzy’
The UK has fallen out of the top 10 list of countries with the best pensions for the first time in history coinciding with an alarming swell of companies in an apparent ‘frenzy’ of defined benefit…Read more…
Assurances call
The UK’s auto industry workers are world-renowned for their craftsmanship — it’s thanks to them that the industry has largely flourished over the years. That Nissan pledged last week to…Read more…
Win for gig workers
Unite announced it would be setting up a special ‘bogus self-employment’ unit to pursue employers who were shamelessly dodging their responsibilities by classifying workers as self-employed. …Read more…
Release them now
Unite strongly condemned Tuesday evening’s (October 25) detention of the co-mayors of Diyarbakir Ms Gültan Kışanak and Mr Fırat Anlı and the subsequent police attacks on civilians who were protesting…Read more…
Equal pay fight
The gender pay gap has remained stubbornly high, as new figures released this week show that it stands nationally at 9.4 per cent, just barely below last year’s 9.6 per cent. At one company,…Read more…
STPs: ‘Slash, Trash and Privatise’
Struggling NHS patient services are under threat from stealth reforms that could see more closures and relocations of local hospitals and A&E departments, local councils have revealed. The…Read more…
A call to arms
For too many young working people today trade unions, and the principle of collective bargaining that underpins the movement, seem like a relic of a distant past – despite unionised workplaces…Read more…
Fast flight
Having backed a third runway at Heathrow the government is now being urged by Unite to ‘fast forward’ on the project to boost the economy and secure decent jobs. Expressing disappointment that…Read more…
Positive talks result
Unite reps at Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) are pleased to be engaging in positive talks with management a year after the union was re-recognised following strike action over a 22-month period….Read more…