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Nearly 200 low paid East Kent Hospitals staff, employed by private contractor 2Gether, are being balloted for strike action over pay, Unite said today (December 1). 2Gether is a wholly owned subsidiary of East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and made £2m profits in 2021. The workers are being offered a pay rise of around […]
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December 1 will be a day that hundreds of thousands of hospitality workers in the Republic of Ireland will remember – it’s the day that they’ve reclaimed what’s rightfully theirs. Up until today, workers in Ireland’s hotels, restaurants and other establishments where tipping is customary, had long been the victims of theft on a grand […]
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Reacting to the Ofgem’s newly published price review on Wednesday (November 30) Unite has slammed the regulator’s failure to rein in rampant profiteering by energy distributors such as UK Power Networks. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Ofgem have utterly failed to protect the public from rapacious energy profiteers. This price review will allow distributors […]
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London’s Plant Based World Expo were warned that Quorn is not the ethical business it claims to be by protestors today (November 30). The protest was in support of Quorn’s Billingham factory workers who have been on strike over pay since September. The expo is being sponsored by Quorn and a representative from the company […]
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Members of Unite employed in engineering construction roles at Fawley oil refinery in Hampshire will step up strike action in a dispute over bonus payments. The 130-strong workforce, who are employed by three contractors Altrad, Bilfinger and Enerveo, are seeking a bonus payment of £2.37 an hour, the maximum allowed under the relevant industrial agreement […]
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A long-running pay dispute at the GE Steam plant in Rugby has ended after a pay deal was secured by Unite. More than 75 workers had been taking intermittent strike action since April this year over flexible working payments and other financial issues. The dispute was settled after the company agreed to provide a number […]
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the fourth and final day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the third day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the second day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Last week in Birmingham, Unite’s various sectors held their respective national industrial sector conferences, which occur every two years. In the video below, you can catch all the highlights from the first day of the conferences. Film by Nathan Darby
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Ahead of a Unite strike ballot of ambulance workers closing on Wednesday (November 30), the Mirror spoke to several Unite paramedics who’re at the end of their tether. A perfect storm of huge and rising patient handover wait times, high levels of staff sickness mostly due to stress — with many leaving the service altogether […]
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Thousands more NHS workers across London, Merseyside and Manchester have begun balloting for strike action, Unite, which represents some 100,000 NHS workers, said on Friday (November 25). Unite said its healthcare members are warning the NHS is on ‘life support’ and that without serious investment to stem the recruitment and retention crisis and save failing […]
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Long running strike action on the West Midlands Metro has ended after workers agreed an improved pay offer. The 170 members of Unite began strike action in mid-October. The new pay deal was offered after Unite announced that the workers would take all-out industrial action from the end of November. Under the pay deal, which […]
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Discussions between NHS leaders in Scotland on abandoning the health service’s founding principles by having wealthy patients pay for treatment are ‘sickening’, Unite said on Monday (November 21). The discussions, revealed by the BBC, were recorded in draft minutes of a meeting held by NHS Scotland health board chief executives in September. Unite general secretary […]
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The leader of Unite has slammed the automotive industry and the government for failing to prepare for the green transition. Joint research from the University of Birmingham and Unite reveals that almost a third (29.2%) of auto workers are ‘not confident’ that their workplace will survive the transition to electrification. Unite is calling for an […]
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Workers employed by Arrow XL will demonstrate outside the company’s head office in Liverpool this week, as they ramp up their industrial action campaign in response to the company’s poverty pay rates. The demonstration will take place on Tuesday, November 22 from 10.30 am at Logistics Group Holdings Ltd, Atlantic Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 […]
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There could be free parking for New Year sales shoppers across Hounslow, Ealing and Brent if workers employed by the ‘Scrooge’ outsourcer, Serco vote for strike action. The strike ballot for Hounslow opens today (November 21) and workers in Ealing and Brent begin voting on Tuesday, November 22. The ballot results are due from December […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham spoke out after last week’s Autumn Statement, in which chancellor Jeremy Hunt sent out a clear message that he was not on the side of working people or their communities. In the video below, Sharon explains: Sharon also commented: The Chancellor has made choices which put him on the side […]
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A recent letter from Steve Barclay, secretary of state for health and social care, to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), gives the strongest indication yet that NHS staff will be offered a two per cent pay rise for 2023. The letter, dated 16 November, states that ‘in the current economic context, it is particularly […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has written to the Ofgem CEO, Jonathan Brearley , and Chair, Martin Cave, to demand that the Regulator clamp down on excessive profiteering by energy distributors. ‘Unite investigates’ – the union’s research and investigation arm – has established that last year the major energy suppliers, distributors, and generators made £15.8 […]
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