RSPCA staff to hold consultative ballot on industrial action in pay and contracts’ row.
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Manufacturing matters
There’s no doubt that manufacturing in the UK has taken an extra pounding amid Brexit uncertainty. The latest October figures paint a bleak picture – Britain’s manufacturing plants have been…Read more…
‘Intolerable’ lack of access
Research by Unite has found that workers in the transport sector are being routinely denied access to toilets, which is creating health issues and in some cases forcing workers to leave their jobs….Read more…
Health visitors strike
Lincolnshire health visitors started a month-long strike today (18 November) as cracks appeared in the county council’s hardline ‘divide and rule’ policy over future job roles.
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‘Our big task’
Speaking at the opening of Unite’s national industrial sector conference today (Monday November 18) in Brighton, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey in his keynote speech, delivered an impassioned…Read more…
‘Terrible human cost’
Child poverty among working families has skyrocketed according to the latest figures, in a damning testament to the damage Tory-led governments have wrought during their last near-decade in power….Read more…
‘When Labour wins we all win’
Unite’s sector conferences meet this week at an extraordinary time in our politics. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to elect a government that gives working people hope. We must fight…Read more…
Manufacturing “menace”
Unite has rubbished Boris Johnson’s plan to ensure that no one will be further than 30 miles from an electric vehicle charging point as inadequate and accused the PM of being a “menace” to the UK’s…Read more…
‘Huge boost’ for rural communities
Unite has highlighted the boost free full-fibre broadband would bring to rural communities across the UK after the Labour party announced on Friday (November 15) its latest pledge. Unveiling…Read more…
‘Human chain to save NHS’
A ‘human chain’ to save the NHS and a rally are key features of a two day strike by staff at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust who face being transferred to a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) designed…Read more…
Fight against ‘damaging’ cuts in Bradford goes on
Bradford council bosses are being ‘obdurate and foot dragging’ in talks to resolve the dispute over swingeing cuts to the city’s 14 libraries and museums, Unite said today (November 14). Unite…Read more…
‘Left with no choice’
Bakkavor workers preparing popular meals for leading supermarkets have voted for strike action in a dispute over low pay at a time when the food manufacturer is raking in tens of millions in profit….Read more…
Under the acacia tree
On a Yemeni farm
it was the spring planting season.
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Dock drivers dispute
Volkswagen Group faces serious delays as Sheerness dock drivers ballot for strike action in pay dispute.
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Worst wait times on record
Patients in England are facing the worst wait times since records began, with one in six patients having waited longer than four hours in A&E to be seen in October. The latest figures…Read more…
Young people’s hopes for Labour
Unite’s national body for young workers met yesterday to talk about what they would like to see from a Labour government.
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Steepest rise ever
A major spike in food bank use has prompted the nation’s leading supplier of emergency food parcels to call on politicians of all parties to ensure they pledge to protect people from hunger —…Read more…
‘Precisely what is needed’
Unite has welcomed Labour’s rescue plan for the NHS, which will plough £26bn in real terms to resuscitate a health service on its knees after a decade of cuts under successive Tory governments….Read more…
‘Clear message’
Bromley library workers, who are in the sixth month of strike action against their controversial employer social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL), have unanimously…Read more…
‘Two-tier’ health service slammed
Unite will shine a spotlight on the accelerating privatisation of GP services and its detrimental impact on patients at a demo in Tower Hamlets in London on Thursday (November 21). Unite has…Read more…