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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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Yesterday (Feb 6) Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham visited reps at Europe’s largest construction site, Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Sharon Graham was there to meet Unite reps and discuss key areas within construction and how the union can support them. While there she took the opportunity to push for investment for Sizewell C in […]
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Unite Live – Shorter working week workshop (400 words) Sign up now for “four-day week” training Unite is at the forefront of the campaign for a shorter working week, and a new pilot workshop from Unite Education, in conjunction with the Organising Department, will help reps understand the issues and explore ways that this can […]
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Unite South West have unveiled a brand new union banner for the region highlighting the areas working history and tradition of fighting for peoples rights. The banner recognises some of the trade union heroes from across the region, with images of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Bristol Bus Boycott and Tony Benn gracing the front and […]
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Unite ramped up its campaign to restore the Winter Fuel Allowance for all pensioners this week with a banner drop on Wednesday (January 29). The campaign called on the Labour government to release the latest figures for excess winter deaths. Last August, the Labour government announced it would be axing the previously universal Winter Fuel […]
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Unite sends its solidarity to all those affected by the devastating mid-air collision of PSA flight 5342 with a US military helicopter in Washington, DC today (January 31). The American Airlines regional passenger jet, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, collided with a Black Hawk helicopter at around 9pm local time. Emergency responders are […]
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Today (27 January) is Holocaust Memorial Day and when people across the world gather to remember the 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust. The day also commemorate the millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution, the communists, LGBT+ and disabled people as well as the millions more who were murdered […]
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Heart Union week is back next month – and we want to hear your stories about how Unite branches have been recruiting new members and spreading the word. This year Heart Unions week runs from 10-16 February 2025 and is a chance to join with Unite activists across the UK in celebrating unions and all […]
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As record breaking winds from Storm Eowyn tore across Ireland, leaving 725,000 properties without power, construction employers were busy trying to cheat workers out of a day’s leave. On Friday (24 Jan) winds of 113 mph were recorded near Galway, and hundreds of buildings across the country were damaged. However the very workers who will […]
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This feature first appeared in the autumn edition of the Landworker magazine. You can view the latest issue here. The UK’s hospitality industry is inextricably entwined with rural economies – in fact, rural tourism accounts for a whopping 70 to 80 per cent of all British tourism, and it adds around £14bn a year to […]
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