Moves to halve the funding for face-to-face debt advice services across England have been suspended after a campaign by Unite.
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Scots Covid hospitality support ‘drop in ocean’
Unite has welcomed the Scottish government’s ‘more more’ proactive approach to supporting the Covid-hit hospitality industry but said the £66 million in support for business will not stop mass job…Read more…
South Yorkshire bus strikes on cards
Fresh bus strikes will hit South Yorkshire in January after Stagecoach refused to offer a ‘reasonable’ pay deal to staff, Unite said on Wednesday (December 15). More than 560 bus workers are involved…Read more…
Economic forecasters in strike vote
Economic forecasters at the NIESR (National Institute for Social and Economic Research) are predicting a high probability of strike action at the leading think tank in a dispute over inflation. The…Read more…
Nottingham bus strikes threat
Bus drivers at council-owned Nottingham City Transport (NCT) are being consulted over strike action after they rejected a ‘subpar’ pay offer, Unite, the UK’s leading, union said today (December 16)….Read more…
Below inflation pay rises are a wage cut
Sharon Graham says below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham says the union will continue to base claims on the RPI…Read more…
Biomedical scientists strike latest
Bosses at East Lancashire NHS Trust must shoulder the blame for a new 12 week strike which started on Wednesday (December 15). Blackburn and Burnley biomedical scientists restarted strike action on…Read more…
‘They should spend a day in our shoes’
When the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit went into effect in October, the Tory MPs who pushed it through thought that was the end of it – that they could, with the stroke of a pen, consign…Read more…
‘Bring back furlough at 100% now’
As Unite Hospitality reps and front line workers in the hospitality, tourism and events industries, we are facing yet another unnecessary period of uncertainty that mirrors the start of the pandemic…Read more…
‘They need help now’
Unite is calling for a hospitality support package to be brought forward urgently amid a skyrocketing increase in Omicron cases, which has abruptly precipitated mass cancellations in bookings….Read more…
Luton airport contract workers in poverty pay fight
Luton airport passengers face disruption to their Christmas travel plans as workers employed by contractor Wilson James take industrial action in an effort to earn more than poverty pay. Strike…Read more…
Aston Martin industrial action threat
Industrial action is threatened at the prestige Aston Martin carmaker as workers face losing about £100,000 in retirement income if the defined benefit (career average) scheme is closed from February…Read more…
Stagecoach National Express takeover latest
Unite, which represents tens of thousands of workers across the bus, coach and rail industry, has warned that workers must not suffer following the announcement today (December 14) that National…Read more…
Unite: Covid jabs should not be mandatory
As a health trade union representing over 100,000 workers in the NHS, Unite has strongly encouraged our members to be vaccinated through our “Get a jab campaign”. Despite this, Unite, believe…Read more…
‘Alarming’ lack of lorry safety inspections
A UK based lorry can, on average, travel the equivalent of three and a half times around the world without expecting to undergo an on-the-spot check. Unite, the UK’s leading union, which represents…Read more…
‘Fundamentally flawed’
Unite, the union representing staff at the Financial Conduct Authority has today (December 13) raised grave concerns about the City regulator’s pay and grading consultation, due to close in 7 days’…Read more…
‘A testament to the breathtaking strategic approaches’
Fifty years on veterans of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) “work-in” have called on young workers to take inspiration from their legendary dispute when fighting pandemic redundancies.
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Ford Dagenham pay win
A significant pay victory for contract workers employed at Ford Dagenham has been notched up by Unite the union. More than 300 workers assembling engines, employed by Lineside Logistics at the Ford…Read more…
‘Act of bad faith’
The dispute involving drivers employed by the Tesco-owned Booker Retail Partners at its Thamesmead site has flared up again with a two-day strike, including Christmas Eve, which will hit deliveries…Read more…
Outsourced Barts Trust workers vote to strike
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company, Serco, have voted for industrial action across Barts Health NHS Trust in a battle against low pay and exploitation. With a 97%…Read more…