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Striking workers at Princes Food factories across the country are standing firm as the current wave of industrial action enters its second week. The strikes are the result of new owners at Princes revoking a pay offer from the previous employer for Unite members who work as line operatives and engineers. Paul Russell is Unite […]
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The January blues can hit anyone and The Samaritans are encouraging workers to grab a cuppa and have a chat next week as their “Brew Monday” campaign returns for 2025. The Samaritans, who provide emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope or at risk of suicide, are reminding everyone to reach out […]
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Unite has slammed a decision by the Irish Government which will see the majority of migrant health care assistants (HCAs) on general employment permits paid less than the new national minimum wage. Migrant health care assistants on existing contracts will not benefit from the new government-mandated minimum annual remuneration of €30,000. This took effect on […]
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Workers at Princes Food have escalated strike action at the food production company following the withdrawal of an agreed pay offer, and a lack of movement from the employer. Princes produce tinned goods for the nation’s supermarkets and shops, who could be hit with shortages during the strikes in Bradford, Cardiff, Glasgow, Long Sutton and […]
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Wrexham Council has shown solidarity with workers on strike at food manufacturer Oscar Mayer, and backed their campaign against the producers planned fire and rehire policy. Around 600 Oscar Mayer workers, the vast majority of the factory’s workforce, have been striking since September over the company’s plans to fire and rehire them to slash pay […]
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Retired Unite members from Bristol have taken their concerns over the cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance to their MP – who just happens to be Treasury Minister Darren Jones. Members of Unites Bristol Retired Members branch lobbied the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Bristol North West MP on December 14, 2024 as he […]
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UniteLive is thrilled to announce that Unite national health and safety adviser Rob Miguel has won the prestigious Safety and Health Practitioner (SHP) award for Most Influential in 2024. UniteLive caught up with Rob, who said he was “honoured and proud” to have won the award, but he emphasised the award was the culmination of […]
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A protest was held outside the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum meeting in Bournemouth yesterday (4 December) calling on councils to divest from Pemberton Asset Management over its role in firing and rehiring Oscar Mayer ready meal workers. Unite activists were joined by members of the Unite Tolpuddle Branch outside the Hotel where the forum […]
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Unite was out in force on Friday morning (29th November), organising colourful and noisy protest in support of a member who has been removed from his workplace simply for highlighting the dangers of onsite asbestos. Danny Thomas is an electrician who had been working for Llorets at the large Victoria House refurbishment site on Southampton […]
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Unite Community activists in Somerset have been organising the tenth anniversary of the annual Bridgwater Together festival, an event which aims to challenge divisions and bring communities together. The free cultural festival celebrates the town’s diversity, and this year took place on . Saturday, November 16, with over 500 people packing into Bridgewaters recently renovated […]
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Knowsley Livv Housing workers have intensified their strikes in their fight for fair pay. After workers endured years of below inflation pay rises, they’ve now rejected a pay increase of five per cent because it fails to reverse the real terms pay cuts they’ve suffered. Livv Housing, which manages and maintains over 13,000 properties primarily […]
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Unite has been handing out the latest BuildingWorker to construction workers on their way to work in Islington. Activists were up early at Angel tube station to hand out the Autumn edition and talk to workers about the benefits of joining Unite. Darren Goldstone is a convenor at a construction site in London, and said; […]
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Members from Unite Hospitality held fringe meetings at this week’s Sector Conferences to highlight their current campaigns, and tell members from other sectors how they can support them. The group also held a highly active stall throughout the week and explained some of the issues facing workers across the sector to delegates. On Monday (18 […]
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The second day of 2024’s sector conferences encompassed Unite’s service sectors including construction, finance and health. Below we feature pictorial highlights from general secretary Sharon Graham’s speech and questions in the plen…Read more…
UPDATE: This is a reminder that voting for the SHP awards closes on Monday, November 24. We urge you to get your vote in for Unite national health and safety adviser Rob Miguel via the link here. You can read more about the awards and Rob’s nomination in the article below: — This year’s Safety […]
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“Verbal abuse is a daily occurrence while driving a bus…It can range from basic insults of being told you are rubbish at your job to personal insults to racial insults to threats to your personal safety.” This is just one anonymous experience from a Scottish bus driver who responded to a Unite survey of over […]
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Unite activists and members have taken the fight for fair pay at food processing company Bakkavor to Reykjavik, Iceland this week (6 November) taking the opportunity to explain the industrial dispute to comrades from Efling, one of the largest unions in Iceland. Bakkavor’s biggest shareholders are Icelandic “tycoons” Agust and Lydur Gudmundsson. Lydur Gudmundsson was […]
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London bus drivers organised a march and rally on Tuesday (5 Nov) to highlight the unsafe and “intolerable” working conditions they are expected to put up with, and Unite has supported them all the way. Hundreds of drivers gathered outside Ron Todd House in Moreland Street before marching through the streets of the capital to […]
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Members have voiced their support for Unite taking action, by launching a judicial review process on behalf of the union and its retired members, to overturn the government’s decision to cut the winter fuel payment to all but the poorest pensioners. Unite has sent a pre-action protocol letter to Liz Kendal the secretary of state […]
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On Friday night (Oct 25) Unite Equalities hosted the 2nd Unite National Black History Month Gala Awards which celebrated all the hard work from BAEM members and allyship to the BAEM community. After the success of last year’s event the return of the Gala was never in doubt and hundreds of Unite reps, activists and […]
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