Unite has described the decision by Intelligent Processing Solutions Ltd (iPSL) to close seven sites across the county resulting in approximately 600 job losses as “tragic”. Staff across the…Read more…
Back to work help
Unite is teaming up with employers and the employment charity, Tomorrow’s People in the South West to hold its first ever jobs and training open day in Bristol tomorrow (November 9). The event…Read more…
Priced out of justice
The coalition government’s legacy of injustice was made startlingly clear last week when new TUC figures revealed that the number of employment tribunal claims has plummeted after fees were…Read more…
BMW strike: one step closer
Production of the iconic Mini and prestigious Rolls-Royce motor car could be disrupted in the coming months after BMW group car workers massively backed industrial action in a consultative ballot…Read more…
Saving for self-reliance in Cambodia: Credit unions helping garment workers to organise
There is no minimum wage in Cambodia, despite the Labor Law requiring one to be set in the private sector through sub-decree. More than 10 years after the law was passed, this has not been done. The…Read more…
Cereal production at risk
Production of some of the nation’s favourite breakfast cereals could be hit by possible industrial action, unless a union rep working for Cereal Partners in Trowbridge, Wiltshire with an…Read more…
European steel protest
Steelworkers from Unite working for Tata Steel UK and British Steel will be joining thousands of fellow steelworkers from across Europe to march through Brussels tomorrow (November 9) to demand…Read more…
Equality watchdog on strike
Members of Unite working for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be taking part in the first of two one-day strikes tomorrow (November 9), after talks over the implementation of…Read more…
Safeguards and strong unions
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey’s spoke at the CLASS conference in London, on November 5. Unite is proud of the part it played in establishing the movement’s very own think-tank…Read more…
The return of the squeeze?
This is the latest in our regular round-up of the state of the economy. Last month my colleague Silkie Cragg discussed the contradictory nature of data regarding the state of the economy as we entered Quarter 4 of 2016. This month the picture seems to …Read more…
Three quarters of the people hit by the Benefit Cap are children. Today, things got worse
Today, the government took another step to increase the number of children in poverty. They have done this by cutting the Benefit Cap, first introduced by the Coalition government. Outside London, the number of people in need whose benefits are cut is …Read more…
‘Heartless move’
The introduction of a “heartless” new benefit cap that will leave some families more than £100 a week worse off has been slammed as “cruel” and “hypocritical”. The cap, announced by George…Read more…
‘Major blow’
Unite is demanding to see the financial figures to justify the loss of 389 jobs at Muller’s milk plant at Chadwell Heath in east London. Muller Milk & Ingredients bought Dairy Crest’s milk…Read more…
‘Strongly supported’ strike
The two-day strike at IT giant Fujitsu in Manchester, which started earlier today (November 7), has been strongly supported by about 300 workers in the continuing dispute over pay, pensions and job…Read more…
Pensions betrayal
Workers at AWE Plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – will stage a 24-hour strike on Monday (November 14) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension scheme and…Read more…
Quintuple reasons for the triple lock
The State Pension triple lock has taken another bashing. A committee of MPs released a report calling for the picking of the so-called triple lock, dating back to 2010, which guarantees that pensions will rise by the higher of inflation (measured by the Consumer Prices Index), average earnings…Read more…
Young worker’s Challenge #3: Lack of training opportunities
This month we’re counting down the ten most significant challenges faced by young workers. If you think about it, you’d expect younger workers to get more training than older workers – after all,…Read more…
The Econocracy: the stunning new book from Rethinking Economics
The ‘rethinking economics’ student movement has been one of the few highlights of the dismal years since the financial crisis. In their new book The Econocracy: The perils of leaving economics to the experts, three of their number – Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins – set out in full…Read more…
The independent review of online voting for trade unions is finally happening
As someone working in digital services in trade unions, the legal ban on using online voting for union statutory ballots has always wound me up. So I’m very pleased at the news that the government are finally starting their promised independent review into online voting for unions. Sir Ken Knight,…Read more…
Welcome announcement
Caving in to pressure from all sides, including lobbying and campaigning from Unite, the UK government has finally announced today (November 4) that work on the long-awaited Type-26 frigates would…Read more…