Welcome news for workers – a pay rise is on the way via the new National Living Wage. Sadly though all is not quite what is seems. New research from the Resolution Foundation of George…Read more…
Stringfellow slammed
Unite has slammed strip club owner Peter Stringfellow after he admitted scantily clad waitress at his venues in central London only get to keep around half their tips. Stringfellow became…Read more…
Fairness call on agricultural pay
Unite has warned the Scottish Government that thousands of agricultural workers are set to swell the ranks of the working poor. Wage rates for 2015/16 were determined at the annual meeting of…Read more…
Choose life
Life expectancy at birth has increased by three years for every decade according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics. For men life expectancy at birth has increased from 51…Read more…
New Nissan model welcomed
Nissan’s decision to go-ahead with the next generation Juke car is ‘another positive step in the renaissance of the British car industry’, Unite has said. The estimated £100m investment in the…Read more…
Government must act on energy
Unite is calling on the government to investigate the adverse impact of the planned closure of the Eggborough coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire which will bring job losses in the region’s…Read more…
Zero hours jobs leap
At least 744,000 jobs in the UK come with zero hours contracts, a 20% rise in the last year alone, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The TUC estimates there are…Read more…
No to funding cuts
Unite has condemned the Northern Ireland Executive over the implementation of its budget which has forced brutal cuts on the Higher Education sector, resulting in almost 200 job losses at the…Read more…
Backing Corbyn – put on your tin hats
Every day seems to bring a new media-generated hoo-ha about what Jeremy Corbyn may or may not have said. As Owen Jones warns, we’d better get used to it. The vast armoury of the Tory press is trained…Read more…
Part-time poverty
Earning below the living wage is the norm for part-time women workers in more than 130 parliamentary constituencies, according to new research carried out by the TUC to mark Part-time Equal Pay Day….Read more…
Osborne Voodoonomics
The Chinese stock market bubble has burst and China has had its own “Black Monday” (on 23 August). Its economic growth is slowing down and the after effects of the turmoil in its stock market and…Read more…
Better than zero flashmob protest
On Friday (August 28) a group of young activists gathered outside trendy bars and restaurants on Glasgow’s Ashton Lane to protest at a multi-million pound chain paying staff below the living wage. …Read more…
Tory wage plans need leap of faith
Plans by the government to penalise businesses which fail to pay the national minimum way and the living wage have drawn a sceptical response from Unite. Britain’s largest union has warned it…Read more…
No to tipping cap
Unite has firmly rejected government proposals to cap the amount in tips restaurants can deduct from waiting staff. The union — which has led a campaign for tipping fairness…Read more…
At risk: your BBC
It’s the time in the decade when the BBC’s Charter, granted by Parliament, comes up for review. The BBC’s enemies in government and the commercial media combine to throw at it everything…Read more…
You can’t burn down our rainbow!
As soon as I stepped on the train I saw big bright dresses, suitcases full of make-up and a whole carriage full of singing drag queens, from this point on I knew Brighton Pride was going to be the…Read more…
Not even one per cent?
Just a month after Cameron’s post-election U-turn on a 10 per cent pay rise for MPs, Tories say public sector workers may not get their 1 per cent pay rise after all. Public sector workers…Read more…
Keep Goodyear in UK fight
The Goodyear Dunlop plant in Wolverhampton is productive, profitable and held up by the company as an example of how to do things right. So why do they want to close it and move production to…Read more…
Meter staff in pay loss protest
EDF Energy staff in London, southern and western England will be taking part in a 24-hour stoppage next Wednesday (September 2) following a breakdown in talks over proposals which could see some…Read more…
Fit to die?
The department for work and pensions’ (DWP) Work Capability Assessments aren’t fit for purpose and should be scrapped in their current form, Unite urged today as shock figures revealed over 4,000…Read more…