The reasons why almost half the vets regularly think of leaving the profession – with nearly 10 per cent of young vets planning to leave as soon as possible – will be explored at the inaugural…Read more…
Stand and deliver!
Unite Community in Chesterfield staged on Monday (June 13) a protest outside the offices of Best Connection, one of two employment agencies that supplies Sports Direct with labour. Singing a…Read more…
‘Let’s carry on her work’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has offered Unite’s most sincere condolences to the family of Jo Cox, the MP who tragically lost her life in her constituency today (Thursday, June 16). …Read more…
Extra, extra, read all about it?
Newspaper deliveries to newsagents across the UK could be hit as staff at Menzies Distribution gear up for strike action for the first time ever over a ‘pitiful’ pay offer. Unite warned that…Read more…
‘You are welcome here’
Unite will join trade unions and social justice movements from across Britain in a “Convoy to Calais” on Saturday (June 18), to provide aid and show solidarity with desperate refugees prevented from…Read more…
For our children’s future
With less than a week left until the UK makes a historic decision on the day of the EU referendum on June 23, dozens of trade unions, including Unite, have stood together to make the case for Remain….Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Blue chip finance companies, serviced by Capita, will be hit as nearly 1,000 life and pension workers stage a 24-hour strike today (June 16) in a dispute over ‘poverty pay’. More than 920 life…Read more…
In solidarity
Following the Orlando massacre last week, Unite’s Executive Council has issued the statement below in solidarity with the LGBT community in Orlando and across the USA. Unite expresses…Read more…
‘Insulting’ pay inequality
Weymouth bus drivers in Dorset, fed up with being the ‘poor relations’ in the First Group ‘family’, will be going on strike for a week against ‘poverty’ wages. More than 110 drivers, based at…Read more…
Blacklisters’ public funds bonanza
Companies guilty of blacklisting workers have enjoyed a share in a £1.5bn bonanza of Scottish taxpayers’ money according to Unite. The figure is revealed as Unite Scotland prepares to present…Read more…
Don’t put UK manufacturing at risk
The country’s biggest manufacturing union Unite welcomed the interventions today (June 15) by some of the UK’s blue chip business as they seek to rally support for the UK to remain in the…Read more…
Daylight robbery
Campaigners were joined by Dick Turpin and Black Bess to accuse the employment agencies running Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire, of ‘daylight robbery’ on Monday (June 13), in a…Read more…
Safer to remain
The NHS is safer if the UK stays in the EU, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said today (June 14) at a TUC event, where he was joined by health workers, MPs and trade union leaders, including Unite…Read more…
Stronger in
Unite’s campaign is based on the message vote jobs, vote rights, vote Remain. Vote jobs – for the hundreds of thousands of our members, particularly in manufacturing, whose jobs depend on our…Read more…
‘Unacceptable’ pay deal
One thousand bus workers at First Bus in Leeds took strike action today (June 13) in support of a pay claim that would properly reward them for their efforts in making the company a profitable one. …Read more…
Poorest hardest hit by Brexit
Just as the axe of austerity has fallen hardest on the poorest, so too, will low income families have to pay the dearest under a potential Brexit, according to a new report from a prominent economic…Read more…
Brexit — a Republic of Ireland perspective
There are good reasons why people in the Irish Republic are concerned by the referendum in Britain and Northern Ireland to decide future EU membership. That they are concerned is confirmed by a…Read more…
Demand public inquiry now
As one of the stalwarts of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC), Joe Rollin, a Unite industrial organiser from Barnsley, wants Unite members who have been very supportive so far to help…Read more…
Brexit Tories ‘cannot be trusted’
As soon as the EU Out campaign was dubbed BREXIT you could hear broadcast journalists salivating with unadulterated pleasure. It’s a word that demands emphasis. The Remain campaign without an…Read more…
No ‘snooping’ allowed
The Tory government’s sinister agenda aiming to silence all opposition is having a harder time getting through the legislative process than some might have thought. After concessions and…Read more…