Today sees the launch of a new TUC report mapping insecurity at work in Britain today, and how key risks associated with work have been transferred to working people, while the financial rewards from flexibility accrue to employers. We find that 3.2 mi…Read more…
Working holiday
While most people will spend time with their friends and family over the Christmas season, nearly a million workers will have to work. Among these are faith workers, many of whom do not have…Read more…
No Mr Grayling, the #SouthernStrike is very much about safety
Chris Grayling and Southern Rail are trying to convince us that the Southern strike is not about safety. They insist that extending driver only trains, which is at the heart of the dispute between…Read more…
Women pay for austerity
While almost every group outside those on the top end of the income distribution have suffered immeasurably under nearly a decade of austerity, it is women who are footing the largest bill. …Read more…
Poor students frozen out
Unite community members from Durham University held a festive campus demonstration on Tuesday (November 13), to protest against accommodation costs and price increases that are leaving poorer…Read more…
For the last two years London per capita income was DOUBLE the rest of the UK
Despite all the rhetoric about rebalancing and powerhouses, new regional figures show how far London has moved from the rest of the country. In 2014 and 2015 gross value added (GVA) per capita was more than double in London compared to the average over the rest of the UK. In cash terms: £43,600…Read more…
Trying not to read too much into today’s employment figures
The latest employment figures show that the labour market recovery hasn’t reversed, but the story of the last six months hasn’t changed much either: little improvement and some worrying signs of weakness. The latest figures, for August to October, show the employment level down 6,000 and the…Read more…
Christmas delivery strike off
Both parties have come to a mutual agreement on the treatment of the historical pay issues specific to the Barton site which will be put to the Unite members in a ballot. As a result, all…Read more…
BA: Poverty pay and broken words
Thousands of cabin crew working for British Airways’ ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Nearly 80 per cent of the…Read more…
Saved – bin workers’ tips
There are jobs that are important – which everyone recognises – and they rightly get the pay and social esteem they deserve. Then there are workers whom none of us could live without, but…Read more…
Let’s talk about racism at work
The increase in racist and xenophobic attacks post-Brexit created a public outcry and highlighted the fact that racism is still an issue in modern Britain. This came as no surprise for many Black…Read more…
Christmas pain
Families up and down the country will be desperately struggling at the worst time of the year as thousands will feel the full force of the government’s new benefit cap which many in Manchester were…Read more…
Queen’s grocer staff tips ‘Scrooge’ shame
Fair tips campaigners will target the Queen’s grocer, Fortnum and Mason tomorrow (December 15) over its Scrooge-like raid on staff wages and service charge payments which has left staff seriously…Read more…
Brexit battle
Labour will fight for a Brexit which delivers “strong relations” with the EU and preserves the UK’s ability to trade in goods and services with the continent. In a major speech in London, Keir…Read more…
Qatar labour ‘reforms’: actions speak louder than laws
Qatar’s new labour laws will not end abuse, warns Amnesty, and FIFA must act to force real change. Hot on the heels of the deal between Qatar’s World Cup Supreme Committee and the international construction unions to allow the latter to keep an eye on workers building World Cup stadiums, comes…Read more…
‘Excellent’ Nissan pay deal
A two-year pay deal for about 7,400 employees at car giant Nissan was hailed by Unite today (December 13), as ‘excellent news’ that rewards a dedicated workforce. The workforce accepted the…Read more…
‘Paying over the odds’
Bringing Scotland’s crisis-hit bus industry back into public hands could generate up to £76m a year to improve services, according to research for Unite. Unite commissioned Transport for…Read more…
Something we can (almost) all agree on: the #right2remain
Yesterday the immigration think-tank British Future launched a report setting out hot to put into effect the right for EU citizens living and working in the UK to remain in the UK after Brexit. The report was drawn up by a panel chaired by Labour MP an…Read more…
Christmas ‘havoc’
The delivery of Christmas gifts from Argos, such as iPhones, could be seriously disrupted as drivers are set to strike for 72 hours over the failure to honour holiday back pay, Unite warned today…Read more…
Sacked for grieving
There’s nothing more difficult than losing a family member. Grieving takes time – time for which most bosses will give their workers off from work. But not so for Shaun Bate of Liverpool,…Read more…