Unite has warned of a double blow to traditional UK manufacturing as workers prepare to leave Imperial Tobacco’s iconic Horizon factory in Nottingham for the last time today (May 27). The…Read more…
Worried and frustrated
Strike action on North Sea oil platforms moved a step closer today as talks over pay, proposed cuts and changes to working conditions by the Wood Group broke down. Wood Group is proposing pay…Read more…
Stop North Sea race to the bottom
The North Sea oil workforce suffered another blow this week (May 25) after Shell announced it would cut 475 jobs in the UK and Ireland. The latest announcement is part of a wider raft of Shell…Read more…
Who’s bankrolling the Tory Party?
Greedy Conservatives have received more donations this year than all the other political parties combined, new figures from the Electoral Commission show. Of the almost £12m reported to the…Read more…
‘Ticking time bomb’ for NHS
Nurses form the backbone of the NHS – they’re often the first person you have contact with in the health service when you’re born and the last member of staff who attends to you when you die. …Read more…
Let women be heard
Women’s voices are being drowned out of the EU referendum debate and must be heard, senior Labour women have said. The call, made on the same day as the TUC published a report highlighting the…Read more…
Solid support for UK steel
Hundreds of Unite steelworkers from across the UK joined their colleagues from steel unions GMB and Community in a march in London today (May 25) to press on with their fight to save the industry….Read more…
Holiday flights action backed
Unite cabin crew members working for Thomas Cook Airlines have backed strike action by three-to-one in a dispute over health and safety concerns and ‘dangerous’ changes to rest breaks it was…Read more…
Cancel all sell-offs call
Tory efforts to privatise Whitehall back office functions to save £500m a year have instead cost taxpayers an extra £4m – and are riddled with problems that will be expensive to fix, the National…Read more…
‘As reckless as it is ruthless’
More than 800 HSBC workers will lose their jobs today (May 25) to cheap labour abroad, in a move which Unite said “was as reckless as it is ruthless.” The banking giant announced 840 IT jobs…Read more…
Where racism fears to tread
One evening more than 20 years ago, Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was putting petrol in his car at a local garage, when four teenage boys across the street began shouting racist abuse at…Read more…
‘Their fight is our fight’
Unite sent a message of “solidarity” to university staff planning to strike tomorrow (May 25) amid warnings its members could take action if university bosses failed to make an improved pay offer….Read more…
Pay us our due
Workers at the 2 Sisters owned Pizza Factory in Nottingham started voting yesterday (May 23) on possible strike action in a dispute over an outstanding pay claim for 2015. Unite which is…Read more…
Bus stop
Tomorrow (Tuesday May 24) hundreds of Unite bus driver members, working for First Manchester Ltd will stage a one day strike over a series of serious breaches of longstanding industrial agreements….Read more…
‘Economic vandalism’
40 workers at Shepton Mallet’s historic cider mill will be clocking off for the last time today (May 20) as Irish drinks company C&C Group presses ahead with plans to close the profitable site,…Read more…
Overcoming austerity together
Volunteers from the County Durham Socialist Clothing Bank, which was set up with the assistance of Durham Unite Community in October 2014, have been presented with the Durham County Council…Read more…
What has the EU done for women?
What has the EU done for women? Unite speaks with women members who share why they’ll be voting to Remain.
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‘Boaty’ jobs fight
Unite has said it will fight dozens of compulsory redundancies at Cammell Laird, the Birkenhead shipyard set to build ‘Boaty McBoatface’. Unite had been holding meetings with bosses at the…Read more…
TTIP victory
In a major victory for Unite and other campaigners, prime minister David Cameron caved in to public demands to exempt the NHS from provisions in the massive, controversial EU-US trade deal known as…Read more…
‘Death knell for key industries’
The decision by the European Parliament recently to oppose granting Market Economic Status (MES) to China is very welome. It follows extensive lobbying by Unite and our global union with the US…Read more…