The Olympics is over and the Paralympics has yet to start. Brazil’s Senate is using the break to start formal impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, and the illegitimate government…Read more…
Public buses before profit
Banton is a small village in North Lanarkshire. Like many places in Scotland, people there rely on local buses to get to work, to school, to college, to see friends and family, and to get to…Read more…
Career success?
Wealthy white male graduates are still more likely to have gained entry to the professional classes more than three years after leaving university, even when grades and other factors are taken into…Read more…
‘Boris bus’ builders’ jobs freeze slammed
Unite has slammed manufacturing firm Wrightbus’ recruitment freeze as the latest blow to Ballymena and Northern Ireland’s manufacturing sector. The bus builders are well known for…Read more…
Bus strike talks plea
Unite has expressed ‘bitter disappointment’ over the bus operator First Dorset’s ‘game playing’ on attempts to resolve a long running dispute as it confirmed a series of strikes hitting bus routes in…Read more…
Back the European campaign for Fair Transport!
I work in the transport sector. I am supporting the Fair Transport Europe Campaign. And I want you to join in. Let me explain what the campaign is about. Fair Transport Europe is a joint initiative…Read more…
Sports Direct: A ‘rare feat’
An investment group worth £14.5 trillion has taken the unusual step of joining Unite and MPs in calling for an independent review and “fundamental reform” at rogue employer Sports Direct. …Read more…
NHS: staff slam Hunt plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s own staff are worried that his deeply unpopular plans for a “seven-day” NHS service bring dangerous “risks”, leaked department of health documents reveal. The…Read more…
No smoking for street sweepers
Aberdeen’s refuse collection staff and street sweepers are being threatened with fines if they smoke within or outside their own depots. Unions say staff have been told that anyone caught…Read more…
‘No justification for cuts’
Campaigners against cuts to Bristol City Council will be holding a ‘snap’ protest from midday on Saturday August 27 at the water fountains, Broad Quay, BS1 4DA in Bristol city centre. The…Read more…
ONS migration statistics show action on low pay and deregulation needed across Europe and at home
The Office for National Statistics today published figures on the number of migrants in the labour market up to the end of June. Given that this only captures information from a few days after the referendum, it’s not possible to read from these findings any impact of Britain’s vote to leave the…Read more…
Global youth unemployment to rise to 71 million in 2016
Global unemployment is expected to rise to 71 million in 2016, an increase of ½ million from 2015. The unemployment rate is expected to reach 13.1% in 2016, up from 12.9% in 2015 and close to the 20-year peak of 13.2% in 2013. The ILO expects no improvement in 2017. The global youth unemployment…Read more…
Landlords: Raking in the rent
Private landlords pocketed £9.3bn in housing benefit last year, a shocking new report has revealed – double the amount claimed 10 years ago. Analysis by the National Housing Federation (NHF),…Read more…
Roster change bus strike
Unite London bus members working for Tower Transit will be staging the first of two 24-hour stoppages this Friday (August 26), over the imposition of roster changes and a failure by an increasingly…Read more…
‘Things have got to change’
London’s hospitality workers protested with outrage over the ‘unethical’ working conditions of the capital’s hotel industry yesterday evening, following the launch of Unite’s hard-hitting report…Read more…
Take Action! Stop the Government of Ecuador shutting down teachers’ union
The teachers’ union UNE of Ecuador (Unión Nacional de Educadores), an affiliate of global union federation Education International (EI), is facing the threat of being shut down by the…Read more…
NHS: Room at the top?
Race discrimination is alive and kicking in Britain’s workplaces two new reports have found, with black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers suffering underemployment across the economy as well…Read more…
Housing crisis in Ramsgate
The Unite Community ‘Housing Crisis Roadshow’ reached the seaside town of Ramsgate yesterday, where local people said unaffordable house prices and a shortage of social housing has left them unable…Read more…
Knocking down the barriers
Migrant workers at Sports Direct (SD) in Shirebrook have praised Unite for assisting them with learning English. The union has established eight English for Speakers of a Second Language…Read more…
‘The best job in the world’
It is hard not to take it personally. Rarely a week goes by without some keyboard warrior with a newspaper byline telling unions how they ought to do this, that or the next thing better. …Read more…