Unite has condemned moves by the government to change a law which will now allow employers to bring in temporary agency workers to break strikes, branding it a “political stunt”. The government…Read more…
Stagecoach Merseyside bus strikes off
A strike of bus workers employed by Stagecoach on Merseyside scheduled for this Thursday (June 30) has been suspended after workers received a revised pay offer. The dispute involves 370 members of…Read more…
‘Workers can and should demand a pay rise’
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham writes for the forthcoming Unite Landworker magazine*. She says: As I write this column, we are in the midst of a cycle of crisis. And once again the rich and…Read more…
‘Unions are setting the agenda’
A recent surge in Google searches for joining a trade union has been matched by rising membership numbers across the union movement. iNews reported today (June 24) that Google searches for ‘join a…Read more…
Stagecoach Worthing bus drivers in pay win
Unite has secured a pay rise worth 15.8 per cent for Stagecoach Worthing drivers. The drivers will benefit from the one year pay deal, which sees a backdated five per cent rise to March this year, a…Read more…
BA check-in staff vote to strike
Workers employed as check in staff by British Airways (BA) at Heathrow airport have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay. Over 500 members of Unite, the UK’s leading union…Read more…
CNH tractor factory workers to strike
Production at Basildon’s biggest employer, the CNH Industrial tractor factory, will come to a standstill as workers take action for better pay, Unite said today (June 22). More than 500 workers,…Read more…
RCA members fight for fair pay
Unite members at the Royal College of Art (RCA) stood proudly on picket lines on Wednesday (June 22) as they took strike action for fair pay. They are currently taking industrial action over an…Read more…
Merseyside Stagecoach bus workers to strike
Bus passengers across Merseyside are set for severe disruption and delays beginning next week as a result of bus operator Stagecoach failing to make workers a fair pay offer. The dispute affects 370…Read more…
Runaway profits driving inflation
UK inflation has again skyrocketed to nearly 12 per cent, now reaching a 40-year record high, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS published figures…Read more…
Caterpillar workers protest company’s investors
Unite has brought Caterpillar workers’ campaign to London offices of Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street, who hold more than a fifth of Caterpillar’s stock. Unite said that Caterpillar’s pay cut and…Read more…
‘Let our heroes be the collective’
Unite members joined tens of thousands of demonstrators at a TUC march and rally on Saturday, June 18, to send a loud and clear message — that ordinary workers will not be made to pay for the…Read more…
‘The trade union movement must be reborn’
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave a rousing speech on Saturday (June 18) after the TUC cost of living march, which culminated in a rally at Parliament Square. She called on the trade union…Read more…
‘It’s now down to trade unions to step up to the plate’
When both the Governor of the Bank of England and the Prime Minister called for ‘pay restraint’ it was clear that workers were being set up for a fall. Once again we were being asked to pay the price…Read more…
Royal Mail managers ‘holding the business together on unpaid overtime’
Managers at the Royal Mail, currently being balloted for industrial action over threatened job losses, work ‘nearly 1,800 jobs’ worth of unpaid overtime a year’, Unite has said. A Unite survey of…Read more…
Leicester Citybus drivers in pay win
Leicester Citybus drivers are at least £45 a week better off – £2,450 a year – thanks to a pay rise won by their union, Unite said today (June 17). A two-year deal will see wages rise by…Read more…
Couldn’t buy blueberries
I couldn’t go into John Lewis. Not from that door. The door fromthe Square, Cavendish Square. It was the menswear that did it.Scarves. Hankies. That sweater you liked and the blue shirt. No matterthe…Read more…
Unite investigates profiteering
If you believed what the likes of prime minister Boris Johnson and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey had to say, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the cost of living crisis is all…Read more…
‘Time to demand profit restraint’
When both the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and prime minister Boris Johnson said recently that workers shouldn’t ask for pay rises because it may set off an inflationary spiral, he got one…Read more…
“If you don’t fight you will always lose”
New Wales TUC President, Brendan Kelly, tells us about his priorities for the year ahead and why he’ll be marching in London on 18 June.Read more…