“We’ve got a brilliant, diverse community here – everyone from retired miners to young families call Midlothian home, and my job is to fight hard for a better future for everyone.”…Read more…
Line in the sand
A Unite workplace rep – blacklisted by his employer, Interserve Industrial Services because of his union activities while working at a power station at Runcorn, Cheshire – has won his…Read more…
Hope is back on the agenda
Let us finish the job. “These,” Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, “are the scariest words in the English language.” These words are also the Tories’ favourite mantra – a…Read more…
Fighting ‘culture of fear’
Last night (April 27) hundreds of thousands of viewers watched Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, The secrets of Sports Direct, which exposed a zero hours contract workforce in constant fear of losing…Read more…
Tory win could see HSBC leave UK
Not even the sound and fury of a general election campaign could obscure the magnitude of worry in recent days over HSBC’s future in this country. The banking giant has indicated it is giving…Read more…
Working UK-style 2015
Some of the stories coming out of billionaire Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct warehouse are barely credible. But the stories remain undocumented because many of the staff – most of them from…Read more…
Incalculable human cost
On Workers Memorial Day we remember the dead and fight for the living. With only days to go for the most important general election in a generation today’s (April 28) Workers Memorial Day has…Read more…
We will remember them
A Unite member who won an International Women’s Day award from Manchester City Council for campaigning for safer workplaces wants her fellow union members to participate in today’s…Read more…
Save our bus services
First West Yorkshire bus workers at the First Bradford bus depot are taking part in a two-day strike (April 27 and 28) in a protest over services. Click here to see a short clip from earlier today….Read more…
£2 an hour priests win pay justice
Sikh priests who were paid only £2 an hour and were victimised when they complained have won a stunning victory at an industrial tribunal, last week. The Guru Arjan Dev Gurdwara temple in…Read more…
Inequality rules
Welcome to Britain – the most unequal country in Europe and nearly the most unequal in the developed world. Figures released recently have shown that while the vast majority of people in the…Read more…
Ambulance workers in pay strike
A 24-hour stoppage on May 6 has been confirmed by Unite’s ambulance service members in Northern Ireland – the only health area in the UK where workers have not received an offer of a pay rise….Read more…
Sell off must be stopped
GP surgeries run by the private sector underperform compared to NHS-run surgeries on nearly all counts, a new study released today (April 24) has found. It’s only the latest in a growing mountain of…Read more…
The election of stark choice
The choice in this election is stark. While all the parties are involved in a bidding war there are nevertheless major differences not least on values. Lynton Crosby, George Osborne,…Read more…
End NHS market experiment
Hundreds of trade unionists last night (April 23) rallied to Save the NHS at Leeds Town Hall. The event was organised by Unions Together, the campaigning voice of the 14 trade unions,…Read more…
Fighting to keep NHS in public hands
“The care and treatment I have received from the NHS and the support I have received from Unite has both been amazing, ” says 21 year-old Callum Stanland, a Unite member from Grimsby who began work…Read more…
Envy of the globe
Polls have consistently shown, both months ago and now, with the election only two weeks away, that the NHS is the issue of highest concern to voters. And there’s a reason why the…Read more…
£132 a month wage disgrace
“Keir Hardie was my kind of socialist” says Sandra Osborne and not only because of what she describes as the “outward and progressive” views of one of the towering figures in the early history of the…Read more…
Building a growing economy
At the last election, Labour lost Ipswich to the Tories by 2,079 votes. Then Labour held less than half the borough council seats and only four out of 13 Suffolk county council seats. But…Read more…
Hounded over the edge
The word is ‘cruelty’. That’s the only way to describe how people on benefits are treated, says Unite Community activist Colin Hampton. The current benefits regime seems to operate like a…Read more…