Unite has launched a workplace gambling charter, which has been created to provide a framework for employers and unions to assist workers who are having gambling problems. It is estimated that…Read more…
‘Our jobs matter’
‘Our jobs and our communities matter’ will be the message from Unite manufacturing shop stewards from across the UK when they travel to parliament on Wednesday (July 24) to meet MPs and demand that…Read more…
‘The start of something big’
Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire County Council are standing firm against the erosion of their pay and conditions as they took a fourth day of strike action on Monday (July 22). At a…Read more…
‘We won’t be fooled’
Unite has lambasted a limited public sector pay rise as a “last gasp attempt by a failed government” after the Times reported that some groups of public sector workers are set to be in line for a…Read more…
Latest offer rejected
About 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire will hold two 24 hour strikes after pay talks broke down today (July 18), Unite said. Unite said that its members, employed by First South Yorkshire…Read more…
‘Up against the biggest’
As the longest strike in Australia’s modern history carried on month after agonisingly-long month, the number of workers on the picket line dwindled. Although almost broken, AMWU union rep…Read more…
‘Playing with fire’
Unite accused the government of ‘playing with fire’ over the privatisation of the Defence Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS) after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced today (Thursday 18 July) that…Read more…
Crunch pay talks
Crunch pay talks are due to be held tomorrow (July 18) in a bid to avert strike action by about 900 bus drivers in South Yorkshire, Unite said today (July 17). Unite said that its members,…Read more…
Future pensioner homelessness crisis?
Millennials are facing a homelessness crisis once they retire as the shortage in affordable housing reaches breaking point. More than half a million people under 40 who are unable to afford to…Read more…
‘Guarded welcome’
Unite has given a guarded welcome to a commitment made today (July 17) by pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to provide funding to ensure workers at its former site in Avonmouth, Bristol, receive their…Read more…
‘Insulting’ pay offer
Unite has today (July 16) confirmed that it will move to ballot its members at Diageo for strike action following the overwhelming rejection of a derisory pay offer of 2.5 per cent made to the…Read more…
‘Latest victims of bandit capitalism’
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is facing pressure from MPs to handover £12m in promised redundancy payments to staff who worked at its former Avonmouth site. The calls came as Unite called…Read more…
Health visitors’ pay fight
Health visitors employed by Lincolnshire county council are striking for 48 hours from today (July 15) over not getting paid the rate for the job and the erosion of their professional…Read more…
Extreme poverty rising
More than half of families visited by child support workers are destitute, a new survey of social workers and health visitors has revealed. The survey of 1,200 frontline support professionals…Read more…
Unity call at 135th Durham Miners’ Gala
Unite members from across all regions and sectors joined this year’s 135th Durham Miners’ Gala, where it is estimated that 200,000 people attended on Saturday (July 13). At one of…Read more…
‘Brexit won’t divide us’
While the Durham Miners’ Gala is always a highlight of my year, every time I come here my mind goes back to the evil of Margaret Thatcher and how she set out to destroy the miners. That memory isn’t…Read more…
‘Deepening anger’
Summer travel chaos at Heathrow Airport is looming large Unite warned today (July 12) after workers across the airport’s five terminals announced a series of strikes in a dispute over pay. …Read more…
‘Catalyst for real change’
The shocking extent of bullying and harassment of parliamentary staff was laid bare this week (July 11) in a new report — and Unite’s parliamentary staff branch are hopeful it will bring…Read more…
‘Universal Credit has broken me’
A disabled Unite health care worker, who is a survivor of marital rape and psychological coercion, has spoken out about the inhuman way domestic abuse victims and other vulnerable people are treated…Read more…
‘Not a one-off’
Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed by the Ministry of Defence and its subcontractors, has written to members cautioning them that their employer is failing to warn them about the…Read more…