HSBC will axe 840 jobs in IT departments in a ‘reckless’ drive to offshore jobs to India, China and Poland said Unite, today (May 16). The announcement of 840 job cuts is the first wave of IT…Read more…
‘Dehumanising’ trial extended
Hardworking families are now being targeted by the government’s vicious benefit sanctions regime, a major new study has found. As well as finding that vulnerable unemployed people are being…Read more…
Vital bus to be cut
Government cuts to the NHS have led to the axing of an essential hospital shuttle bus service for sick and elderly patients and their families and friends. The 15-seat, 22-mile service that…Read more…
Culture of fear
Unite is warning of a “culture of fear” stalking North Sea offshore workers as the industry braces itself for more cuts. The union is deeply concerned about the health and safety of workers,…Read more…
‘Backwards vision’ Wales can’t afford
UKIP’s move into Welsh politics was facilitated by fear-mongering and empty promises “in areas that feel abandoned”, according to the campaign group, Hope Not Hate. The right wing party made…Read more…
Shotton spirit
Unite steel reps from Shotton rejoiced in the community spirit that’s kept the steel town optimistic, even as the local steelworks faces uncertainty in the shadow of crisis. Schoolchildren…Read more…
Stobart ballot
The simmering row over Argos’ plans to transfer 96 drivers in Leicestershire to controversial haulier Eddie Stobart Ltd (ESL) has now escalated to a strike ballot of more than 400 workers at the…Read more…
Maths of the impossible
The government’s convoluted maths outlining NHS spending is beginning to unravel, as fresh revelations show the health service achieved only £1bn of its £22bn in planned efficiency savings scheduled…Read more…
No justice, no peace
One chapter closed in the Royal Courts of Justice today (May 11) but another opened as the long fight for blacklisted workers continues. Although the case was settled – Unite helped secure…Read more…
Squeezing out every last hour?
Leaving the EU would put around a million workers at risk of excessive working hours, new research from the TUC has shown. The TUC analysis found that since the EU introduced the Working Time…Read more…
Defying all justice
The boss of a Birmingham drug and alcohol charity, which sacked health and safety rep Alison Morris for raising concerns with her manager over fire safety, has received nearly 3,000 emails calling…Read more…
Pushed out for being pregnant
Two years ago at Sports Direct’s infamous warehouse in Derbyshire, where working conditions have been described as ‘Victorian’ a woman gave birth in a toilet at work. That this is something that…Read more…
Keep ferries public
One of the first actions of the new Scottish government’s transport minister should be to ensure that the Clyde and Hebrides ferry routes remain in public hands Unite today (May 9). With a…Read more…
Victory for blacklisted workers
Unite has secured a victory for hundreds of construction workers embroiled in the biggest blacklisting scandal in UK history, after the union has helped its members win more than £10m in…Read more…
Unite’s ‘tough cookies’
After the floods brought by Storm Desmond’s wrath in December devastated Carlisle, entire neighbourhoods were turned into giant building sites. And as well as wrecking more than 2,000 homes,…Read more…
Fatigue factor
Over a thousand Thomas Cook airlines cabin crew began voting in a ballot for industrial action on Friday (May 6) in a dispute over health and safety concerns and ‘dangerous’ changes to rest breaks…Read more…
Crucial to communities
The aerospace and defence industry has joined Unite in making a clear call for Britain staying inside the European Union ahead of the referendum on the 23rd of June. ADS Group – the industry…Read more…
Keep NHS bursaries
Unite is continuing to call on the Tories to ditch plans aimed at replacing NHS bursaries with loans amid warnings that it will cause workforce crisis and turmoil within the health service. …Read more…
Housing bill ping-pong
The government is struggling to push through its housing agenda as its Housing Bill enters into a furious game of parliamentary ping-pong between the Commons and the House of Lords. Peers…Read more…
Paltry pay
Around 70,000 local government workers who are members of Unite have shown their defiance of a ‘paltry’ one per cent offer by not signing the two-year pay deal. The union has conceded that it…Read more…