Unions representing police staff, including control room operatives, 999 calls handlers and forensic specialists, have written to the home secretary Priti Patel asking her to urgently reconsider the…Read more…
General secretary ballot results
Sharon Graham has been confirmed as the next general secretary of Unite the union. Unite the union has today (August 25) announced the final results of its members’ vote for each of the three…Read more…
Bexley bin strikes suspended
Bin collections in the London borough of Bexley are to resume from tomorrow (August 25) while a deal between refuse collectors and their employer Serco is ratified. Unite said its members have voted…Read more…
Slave trade history ‘must be condemned and never forgotten’
August 23 has been designated by UNESCO as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. From 1562 when slavery began with the first English slaving expedition…Read more…
‘Fair day’s pay for fair day’s work’
Crunch talks to resolve the long-running Woolwich Ferry rep victimisation dispute last week between Transport for London (TfL) bosses and Unite the union broke down with the union accusing TfL of…Read more…
Radius Aerospace job losses
More than 60 Radius Aerospace job losses in Shrewsbury, the first of which could occur on the day furlough ends, are a ‘hammer blow’ for staff, Unite said today (August 19). Radius Aerospace, which…Read more…
‘Sheer lunacy’
Unite has branded as ‘lunacy’ the announcement that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the only body able to licence Covid-19 vaccines in the UK, is set to cut 20 per…Read more…
Council workers ‘furious’ at pay offer
Unite the union is to hold a consultative ballot to see if its 70,000 workers in local government want to proceed to an industrial ballot, with options up to strike action, following the ‘derisory’…Read more…
GKN Birmingham strike ballot begins
Workers at the GKN Automotive factory in Birmingham will begin receiving ballot papers from today (August 16) in the dispute over the decision by parent company GKN Melrose to close the site next…Read more…
London bus drivers ‘entirely opposed’ to remote sign-on
A survey of London bus drivers by Unite has found overwhelming opposition to proposals to move to a system of remote sign-on for buses in the capital. A number of London bus operators are keen to…Read more…
Homeworkers must be protected
Unite, Britain’s leading union, has produced a blueprint to protect homeworkers from attacks on their pay and conditions from unscrupulous employers. The union has vowed to support its members…Read more…
Lancashire biomedical scientists strike latest
Biomedical scientists at a Lancashire NHS trust will strike until the middle of November in an upgrading pay row, as the bosses drag their feet over holding constructive talks, Unite the union said…Read more…
DHL workers at JLR plants prepare for strike ballot
DHL workers at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plants in the West Midlands and Merseyside are preparing to be balloted for strike action over wage arrears and an ‘insulting’pay offer, Unite said today…Read more…
‘Fight tooth and nail’
Workers at the GKN Automotive factory on Chester Road in Birmingham, owned by venture capitalists Melrose, are being balloted for strike action after the company confirmed its intention to close the…Read more…
Fears for London Underground
The Transport for London (TfL) pension review has raised fears that the government could have plans to privatise the London Underground, Unite said today (Tuesday 10 August).
The post Fears for…Read more…
‘Sweet’ result in pay deal
A wage dispute between domestic sugar producer British Sugar and its workers at factories across east England has ended after staff accepted a ‘sweet pay deal’, Unite said today (August 10).
The…Read more…
Humber ‘on course to become green energy powerhouse’
Unite hailed the news that a wind turbine manufacturing in the Humber region will see significant expansion as the government commits to financial support. Wind manufacturers Siemens Gamesa and GRI…Read more…
End union busting at HS2
Unite construction members staged a significant protest at outside the HS2 Skanska-Costain-Strabag Joint Venture site on Friday (August 6) over the consortium’s flouting of the HS2 agreement by not…Read more…
‘Too little, too late’ NHS pay offer
Unite will recommend members not to support the UK government’s “too little, too late” three per cent pay award. The union will hold a consultative ballot of its health service members to see if they…Read more…
Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick demo
A protest at the historic Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick plant will be held on Monday (August 9) at noon as strikes resume over the company’s lack of concrete commitments to the site’s future. A group of…Read more…