Unite has urged the government to carefully examine the pitfalls, as well as the advantages, of requiring care home staff to be compulsorily vaccinated for Covid-19.
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Outlaw fire and rehire plea to Mayors
Unite today (Thursday April 15) called on the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to publicly back a declaration to outlaw fire and rehire on bus…Read more…
GS election 2021
Yesterday (April 14) the Unite Executive Council set in hand the election process for a new Unite general secretary.
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Hospitality is back – but job loss pain remains
After a long winter in lockdown, Britons today (April 12) will celebrate the re-opening of pub and restaurant gardens in England, in a significant milestone in the government’s roadmap out of…Read more…
‘Strength and solidarity’ of members hailed
Strikes at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies have been called off after a deal was reached to end ‘fire and rehire’ threats that would have resulted in its Leicester staff losing up to £3,000 a…Read more…
Remote sign on should be ‘jettisoned’ call
More than 4,000 bus drivers working for Metroline in London have overwhelmingly voted for strike action over the controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy, Unite said today (Monday April 12).
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Unite warns Amazon against using anti-union tactics
Unite, the union which has launched the campaign to give Amazon workers a real voice, is warning Amazon not to use union busting tactics in the UK and Ireland. Workers in Bessemer, Alabama lost their…Read more…
Urgent support for aviation call
Commenting on the government’s plan to force holidaymakers to pay around £120 each for Covid tests to travel abroad this summer, Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland said, “We recognise…Read more…
Don’t push workers into poverty
A London tour guide approached me recently near to the office. He was a Unite member and wanted to know what we have been doing for the past year to help self-employed workers such as him.
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St Mungo’s maintenance staff to strike
Maintenance workers at the St Mungo’s housing charity will begin indefinite strike action from Thursday 22 April in response to ‘appalling treatment’ by senior management, Unite said today (Thursday…Read more…
Estate agents using Goodlord ‘facing further pain’
London estate agents using services from Goodlord are ‘facing further pain’ after striking workers from the lettings software provider were balloted for fresh industrial action over £6,000 pay…Read more…
Hotel hit ‘is not journalism’
Responding to the piece broadcast by Sky News in relation to the Birmingham hotel, conference and education facility built for Unite, the union said today (Wednesday April 7):
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We will remember them
A once imposing war memorial dedicated to members of the print union Natsopa has been restored to its former glory and takes pride of place in a new peace garden in Wellsborough, Leicestershire.
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‘Groundhog Day’ at the Woolwich Ferry
Workers operating the Woolwich Ferry, now run by Transport for London (TfL), are holding a ballot for strike action over the victimisation of a Unite rep, the union announced today (Wednesday April…Read more…
‘Toxic’ firm’s threat to ‘fire and rehire’ 300 staff
Coffee-drinking supermarket customers will be a key element in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute affecting nearly 300 employees at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) site in Banbury, Oxfordshire, as the firm…Read more…
Tugboat crew strike in roster row
Two days of strike action this week by Plymouth tugboat crews in a rostering dispute will cause serious disruption to naval traffic in the docks, Unite warned today (Tuesday April 6).
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Green light to racists
It’s not genetics, vitamin D, underlying conditions, or lifestyle choices causing disproportionate deaths of black and Asian people from Covid-19. It is poverty and racism, says a report by Doctors…Read more…
‘Here for you’
Exactly year ago last week, the UK entered its first lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has a special message for all members who have made the…Read more…
Amazon campaign hits the streets
Unite began a major newspaper and digital advertising campaign yesterday (March 31), to alert Amazon workers about a confidential whistle-blowing hotline which has opened in the UK and Ireland.
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‘NHS staff are there for us all’
In March, the government announced it would be recommending a disgraceful 1 per cent pay rise for NHS staff – despite staff having sacrificed so much during the pandemic and having suffered a…Read more…