UK inflation has again skyrocketed to nearly 12 per cent, now reaching a 40-year record high, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS published figures…Read more…
Caterpillar workers protest company’s investors
Unite has brought Caterpillar workers’ campaign to London offices of Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street, who hold more than a fifth of Caterpillar’s stock. Unite said that Caterpillar’s pay cut and…Read more…
‘Let our heroes be the collective’
Unite members joined tens of thousands of demonstrators at a TUC march and rally on Saturday, June 18, to send a loud and clear message — that ordinary workers will not be made to pay for the…Read more…
‘The trade union movement must be reborn’
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave a rousing speech on Saturday (June 18) after the TUC cost of living march, which culminated in a rally at Parliament Square. She called on the trade union…Read more…
‘It’s now down to trade unions to step up to the plate’
When both the Governor of the Bank of England and the Prime Minister called for ‘pay restraint’ it was clear that workers were being set up for a fall. Once again we were being asked to pay the price…Read more…
Royal Mail managers ‘holding the business together on unpaid overtime’
Managers at the Royal Mail, currently being balloted for industrial action over threatened job losses, work ‘nearly 1,800 jobs’ worth of unpaid overtime a year’, Unite has said. A Unite survey of…Read more…
Leicester Citybus drivers in pay win
Leicester Citybus drivers are at least £45 a week better off – £2,450 a year – thanks to a pay rise won by their union, Unite said today (June 17). A two-year deal will see wages rise by…Read more…
Couldn’t buy blueberries
I couldn’t go into John Lewis. Not from that door. The door fromthe Square, Cavendish Square. It was the menswear that did it.Scarves. Hankies. That sweater you liked and the blue shirt. No matterthe…Read more…
Unite investigates profiteering
If you believed what the likes of prime minister Boris Johnson and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey had to say, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the cost of living crisis is all…Read more…
‘Time to demand profit restraint’
When both the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and prime minister Boris Johnson said recently that workers shouldn’t ask for pay rises because it may set off an inflationary spiral, he got one…Read more…
Moy Park Randalstown workers paid ‘chicken feed’ wages
As Moy Park profits touch £90 million Unite exposes how poverty pay at Randalstown has left workers borrowing to ‘make ends meet’. A Unite survey of striking Moy Park workers has revealed that eight…Read more…
Tipton CabAuto workers to strike over pay
West Midland workers making interiors for elite autos McLaren, Aston Martin and Bentley, are due to start a period of seven one-day strikes in June and July over a real terms pay cut. More than 100…Read more…
‘We need to make a lot of noise’
As Unite is mobilising like never before for the TUC’s cost of living march on Saturday (June 18), UniteLive speaks to bank workers who, just like all of us, are struggling to keep up with the rising…Read more…
Ten giant pay leaps – in just one month
Unite is streets ahead, winning giant pay rises for our members – as Chris Jarvis of Left Forward Forward wrote on the site’s webpage yesterday (June 14). He writes, Trade unions have already shown…Read more…
Croydon refuse workers in pay win
Strike action involving refuse workers employed by Veolia on the outsourced Croydon council contract has been called off after workers accepted an improved pay offer. Strikes were due to begin this…Read more…
Thirteen Housing Group workers to strike
Workers at major housing association Thirteen Housing Group, which has over 35,000 properties in the North East and Yorkshire, will be striking for over three weeks in a dispute over an ‘insulting’…Read more…
Victory for Unite Lloyds bank workers
Unite, the union representing staff at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has today (June 13) confirmed that staff across the bank will be awarded a £1,000 bonus to help them to deal with the cost of living…Read more…
Gatwick pay win
Over 300 workers at Gatwick airport will benefit from a 21 per cent pay increase thanks to Unite, the UK’s leading aviation union. The workers are employed by Wilson James on the mobility contract at…Read more…
‘Brilliant result’
Unite has secured a pay deal for around 50 cleaners employed by ABM based at Glasgow Airport, the UK’s leading aviation trade union confirmed. The deal will raise basic pay to £9.90 per hour, an…Read more…
Moy Park shamed amid strike
Unite are workers now on their fourth day of strike action at Randalstown plant. Unite has determined that Moy Park is paying its workers there £5,000 a year less than workers at other company sites….Read more…