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A housing campaign group is calling on Unite members to take part in a survey which is hoped will highlight the impact that poor quality housing can have on the workplace. Workers living in poor quality housing often suffer from sickness or stress that can result in them having to take time off from work. […]
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Unite has today (28 March) launched a new website to raise awareness on Prostate Cancer for reps, and to help them run campaigns and negotiate support measures with employers. Unite North East Yorkshire and Humber (NEYH) has partnered with Prostate Cancer UK to ask employers to run a prostate cancer risk awareness raising campaign in […]
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Unite NEYH today (28 March) launched a new prostate cancer guide in partnership with Prostate Cancer UK to help reps run campaigns and negotiate support measures with employers that will raise awareness of the disease. However some reps have already been working hard to negotiate agreements with employers in the region. Unite member Karen Daniels […]
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Unite Community activists from across the country are planning events as part of the the unions forthcoming nationwide Day of Action over energy price hikes – and they would love to see you join them on the streets. Unite branches are organising events in every corner of the UK to highlight the impact of the […]
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Did you miss Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement on Wednesday (March 26)? In the analysis below, Joy Johnson of Unite’s political department presents all the highlights, including Unite general secretary Sharon Graham’s reaction. This week is all about the Chancellor’s Spring Statement. There is of course a lot of other news about President Trump, for […]
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Yesterday (20 March) members of Unite South West’s regional disabled committee, in partnership with Plymouth City Council, launched the inaugural Neurodiversity Conference at the Council House in the city. The event was part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. The Plymouth Neurodiversity Conference aimed to celebrate […]
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Unite is encouraging members to take to the streets and get involved with a national day of action on 1 April to highlight the impact of the rising cost of energy on communities. Unite Community and Unite Retired Members Branches are organising protests nationwide in response to OFGEM’s 6.4% price hike on 1st April, and […]
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Unite members working at Veolia’s site in Sheffield continued their campaign for union recognition, holding demonstrations yesterday in the city (19 March), with around 150 members and supporters marching through the city centre. The demonstrations started with a picket line outside the Lumley Street depot of union-busting firm, before marching onto Sheffield Town Hall to […]
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Unite has warned that the government’s proposed cuts to the welfare budget must not pit “the poorest against the poorest”. There are in the region of 2.5 million people who are in employment and receiving some form of benefit, due to low pay or who require additional support, for example due to disability. Unite general […]
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IWMD is held on 28 April every year. It brings together workers and their unions from all over the world to remember all workers who lost their lives to workplace illness or injury. It is the day to recommit to fighting to keep workers safe. The International TUC chooses the annual theme. For 2025, the […]
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On International Women’s Day, Unite members mark the day with action. Unite Northeast Humberside and Yorkshire (NEYH) region embodied this spirit of action perfectly, as they hosted a development day for women members on the eve of International Women’s Day on Friday (March 7). Members flocked from across the region to attend the packed […]
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Unite Live – Sisters in solidarity (570 words) Unite activists gather at TUC Women’s Conference Unite delegates joined 300 women trade union activists from across the country at the 2025 TUC Women’s Conference this week (5 – 7 March) at Congress House in London. The annual event featured a packed agenda with over 35 motions […]
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Unite activists have been telling Veolia shareholders across Europe that they will not go away and will continue to fight for recognition at the French waste giant’s Sheffield waste depot. As Veolia continues to refuse union recognition for workers at the depot in Yorkshire, Unite has continued to escalate the dispute. This week activists travelled […]
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Unite organised an inspiring International Women’s Day Reception in Conway Hall this Wednesday (March 5th) to bring together members for an inspirational evening celebrating women in trade unions and highlighting the victories women activists have won. The evening gathering was hosted by Unite’s London & Eastern Women’s committee at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, […]
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Restore the differentials. Reverse the wage cuts. Keep pace with soaring living costs. This is the call from Unite to electricians as it continues to work on the latest pay claim. The Electricians United! campaign includes a new video to bring home the importance of backing the claim, a petition that will strengthen the Unite […]
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Unite turned up the heat on Labour politicians this weekend — and secured a commitment for £200m of additional investment in Grangemouth after months of campaigning. General secretary Sharon Graham led a demonstration of Grangemouth workers which placed 400 hard hats at the doorstep of Scottish Labour’s conference in Glasgow. These symbolised the 400 jobs […]
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Drax Power Station is the biggest biomass power station in the world. Its imposing cooling towers dominate the landscape along the river Ouse in North Yorkshire, with columns of water vapour billowing in the air like the smoke of sleeping dragons. It’s a place in which most people would dare not raise a challenge, but […]
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Unite is holding a Women’s Development Day in Leeds that will be packed full of workshops and speakers, as well as the chance to share ideas and experiences with fellow Unite women and learn about opportunities for women’s development and voices within Unite. The event “What in the World is Happening to Women?” is being […]
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Today (Thur 13 Feb) Unite Construction and Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council (BWTUC) got together at Battersea Power Station to celebrate the immense union role at the construction site. The quality and sheer scale of the work is obvious when seeing the riverside project. Converting the former power station into a massive housing project […]
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Before ‘Blue Monday’ entered our collective vocabulary, it started as a press release issued by a travel company. In 2005, Sky Travel declared the third Monday of January ‘the most depressing day of the year’ – and so began an unofficial day of observance that has been seized on by both big business and mental […]
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