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…
‘Dog-whistle’ racism claim
The Conservative party is regularly beset by allegations of racism against its MPs, councillors and candidates but even the most offensive comments rarely result in serious disciplinary action, a…Read more…
Maximum justice
Unite is continuing to seek maximum compensation and justice for members ahead of a High Court trial next month over blacklisting in the construction industry. Britain’s biggest union…Read more…
Poole food firm workers win
Unite has successfully defeated an attempt to de-recognise the union at the Poole food manufacturer, Addo Food Group. Just 24 hours after Unite publicised the group’s plan, Addo’s bosses…Read more…
Send a message
If anybody is thinking of sitting out the local council elections, I sincerely urge you to think again. May 5 is the first opportunity we voters have to send a message that we are fed up with…Read more…
Think again
Talks between Unite and Unipres have broken down at the automotive company’s facility in Sunderland over proposed changes to a profit-sharing scheme. Unite had requested a meeting with…Read more…
‘Dark day’ for workers
The government’s controversial trade union Bill was granted royal assent this afternoon (May 4) – and now is officially made law. The Bill – which will now as law severely hobble the ability…Read more…