Working people can take little comfort from Theresa May’s promise this week to transfer over rights when Britain leaves the EU. There may be a change at the top but, on workers’ rights, the…Read more…
JLR hit by fine
Birmingham crown court has fined Jaguar Land Rover £900,000 after a Unite the union member was crushed at its vehicle plant in Solihull in 2015. Mark Widnall, aged 59, from Coventry, had been working…Read more…
‘Percy Pig’ joins fair pay fight
Striking members of British Airways’ mixed fleet cabin crew will be enlisting the help of Marks and Spencer’s Percy Pig in their fight against poverty pay tomorrow (January 21) outside the retailer’s…Read more…
BA Strike support – on film
Day one of a three-day strike by cabin crew working for British Airways’ mixed fleet was strongly supported yesterday (January 19), with striking crew members joining picket lines at Heathrow…Read more…
Offer on the table
An offer aimed at settling the long-running dispute on pay, pensions and job security at Fujitsu in Manchester will be put to Unite’s 300 members. The workers are set to vote on the offer in…Read more…
Ferry rocked by strike action
More than 40,000 car journeys that rely on the Woolwich Ferry are set to be disrupted as the workers announce 12 days of 24-hour long strikes going into the spring over a bullying culture. …Read more…
‘Bargain basement Britain’
Jeremy Corbyn has blasted Theresa May’s “demeaning” Brexit plan as one that will create a “bargain basement Britain”. During prime minister’s questions the Labour leader launched a withering…Read more…
Determination
Pictured are Unite BA cabin crew members on day one of a three day strike beginning today (January 19), with striking crew members joining picket lines at Heathrow Airport to protest over poverty…Read more…
Driver’s pay docked
Car drivers, who use Morrisons’ supermarket petrol stations in London, the South East and East Anglia, face the possibility of shortages, if a dispute over a driver’s ‘docked’ £5,200 pay leads to…Read more…
Strong support
Day one of a three day strike by cabin crew working for British Airways’ mixed fleet was being strongly supported today (January 19), with striking crew members joining picket lines at Heathrow…Read more…
‘Mowing’ workers’ pay?
Over 60 members of the Unite union working for the high end chainsaw and lawnmower maker, Husqvarna are beginning a continuous work to rule and overtime ban today (January 19) in a dispute over pay….Read more…
Broken pensions promises protest
Pictured are some of the six hundred Unite members that took strike action today (January 19) at the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s (AWE) two sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire,…Read more…
More than warm words
Despite a drop in overall revenue caused in part by a fall in the number of letters Britons sent, the Royal Mail had a successful Christmas, with Royal Mail CEO Moya Greene praising staff today…Read more…
Where have all the banks gone?
Bank branches once played a central part in many local communities, but each successive year after the financial crisis has seen more and more of their doors close as banks attempt to cut costs….Read more…
‘Landmark ruling’
A total of 56 Unite members at a South Yorkshire firm are set to receive ‘compensation’ payments of up to £7,600 each, after bosses tried to by-pass their recognised union and put a pay offer…Read more…
Xi Jinping is right: the Paris climate agreement must not be derailed
In an important week for global affairs, Chinese president Xi Jinping has given a major speech at the United Nations in Geneva, arguing that the world must not allow the Paris climate deal to be “derailed”. Demonstrating the neat turn of phrase associated with his predecessor, Deng…Read more…
Act now to defend food worker unions in Egypt
In Egypt, twenty-seven edible oils factory workers and leaders and members of their union face crippling fines and jail terms for the ‘crime’ of striking to defend their wages, with…Read more…
First-class pay deal
Pay for thousands of Virgin Atlantic Airlines crew has taken off after constructive negotiations between Unite and Virgin delivered a pay deal worth more than double the current rate of inflation…Read more…
Workforce betrayed
Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey will tell striking workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – tomorrow (January 19) that defence secretary Michael Fallon needs to honour…Read more…
BA strike goes on
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey and shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP will be joining British Airways’ mixed fleet cabin crew on picket lines at Heathrow tomorrow (January 19), on the first…Read more…