A call for high-level talks has been called for over the future of Northamptonshire luxury boat builders, Fairline Boats, which has just laid-off a third of its workforce for up to five weeks. …Read more…
Keep Redcar coke ovens alight
Unite urged ministers to intervene and keep the coke ovens at the Redcar steelworks warm so that production could be resumed in the future and warned that its support package for SSI steelworkers was…Read more…
Safety first
Millions of workers are well aware of the potentially devastating impact of the government’s ideologically-driven trade union Bill which is currently going through Parliament. Their…Read more…
Len says wear red
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey is asking members and staff to wear red on Friday, October 23, in support of Show Racism the Red Card. Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) is the UK’s…Read more…
Justice for Colombia
Unite delegate Jim Kelly spoke on the last day of the Labour Party Conference this week (September 30) in support of Colombian trade unionists whose struggle goes beyond anything we could even begin…Read more…
End pay discrimination
Unite secretary for Ireland Jimmy Kelly expressed his union’s dismay at the miserly increase in the UK National Minimum Wage which comes into effect today (October 1). “An increase of 20 pence…Read more…
Pay rise – no rise
More than a million workers earning the National Minimum Wage today (October 1) received a pay rise of 20p, with the adult rate going up to £6.70 an hour. Business secretary Sajid Javid said…Read more…
Jobs blow for printers
Telephone book printers RR Donnelley is set to close at the end of the year with a “devastating” loss of about 200 jobs. Unite is due to have talks with the management at the Flaxby plant in…Read more…
Learning with Unite
It’s only been open a few weeks but already the new Unite learning centre at Vauxhall Motors in Ellesmere Port is proving to be a “fantastic” success. When Unite general secretary Len…Read more…
Invisible suffering
Unite EC member Joyce Still spoke on behalf of Unite at the final day of the Labour party conference today (September 30) on the pressing need for mental health service provision. …Read more…
Justice for all
Unite delegate Niamh O’Brady on Wednesday (September 30) spoke on justice at Labour Party conference. Unite represents members who work across the whole range of advice and legal…Read more…
Break the cycle of war
Unite delegate Ivan Monckton spoke on behalf of the union at the Labour party conference on Wednesday (September 30) proposing an emergency motion on Syria. “It is likely that very soon…Read more…
Community tattoo!
Like many of us, Ruth Rollin, a tattooist and Unite community member from Leeds has been deeply saddened by the images of Syrian refugees in the media. The body of little Aylan washed up on…Read more…
Shot in the arm
Reacting to the speech by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn delivered to the party’s annual conference today (September 29), Unite general secretary Len McCluskey hailed it as a ‘shot in the…Read more…
‘Outrageous’ payout
While public sector workers — from nurses to civil servants and police officers — were dealt a blow in July after chancellor George Osborne announced another four years of public sector pay freezes,…Read more…
March to protect public services in Jersey
Unite is urging members of the public in Jersey to join in a massive protest over cuts to public services this Saturday (October 3). The States of Jersey government are planning huge cuts to public…Read more…
‘This country can’t run without us’
Unite Executive Council member and a bus worker James Mitchell spoke today (September 29) at the Labour Party conference on the Living Standards and Sustainability report regarding transport and the…Read more…
A new political movement
Yesterday (September 28) at the Labour Party Conference was a turning point in our battle against this vicious Tory government. Unlike previous Labour conferences I was riveted to my seat…Read more…
‘Very, very worried’
If the government wanted to help we’d have been the first steel plant in line for it, given the position of the company,” says Unite SSI convenor Kevin Cook. “Talk about a ‘steel summit’ is one thing…Read more…
Policies for working people
Unite political director Jennie Formby spoke today (September 28) at the Labour Party conference about the Work and Business Policy Commission annual report. Jennie spoke as Labour Party NEC…Read more…