Campaigners were joined by Dick Turpin and Black Bess to accuse the employment agencies running Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire, of ‘daylight robbery’ on Monday (June 13), in a…Read more…
Safer to remain
The NHS is safer if the UK stays in the EU, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said today (June 14) at a TUC event, where he was joined by health workers, MPs and trade union leaders, including Unite…Read more…
Our NHS is safer in Europe: #NHSsaferIN
Today I’m proud to be joining NHS staff and supporters at a rally at Congress House. We’re coming together to say don’t risk a leave vote – Don’t risk our NHS. And there’s a lot to concern us, whether we work in the NHS or rely on it for our families’ health care. To start…
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Stronger in
Unite’s campaign is based on the message vote jobs, vote rights, vote Remain. Vote jobs – for the hundreds of thousands of our members, particularly in manufacturing, whose jobs depend on our…Read more…
Brexit could cost us 1 in 9 doctors and 1 in 6 nurses – #NHSsaferIN
By the latest HSCIC statistics almost 10,000 doctors and over 18,000 nurses have been able to come from the EEA area to work in the NHS – that’s about 9% of all doctors and 6% of all nurses. 10,000 more EEA migrants are employed as support staff. While migrant workers should not be used…Read more…
Would you trust this bunch of Brexiteers with the NHS? #NHSsaferIN
One of the strangest sights in this referendum has been the line of Brexit leaders queueing up to piously claim they’re really in this to help save the NHS. From early on, they’ve touted that leaving the EU would free up £350m a week to spend on the NHS. It doesn’t take long to debunk…
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‘Unacceptable’ pay deal
One thousand bus workers at First Bus in Leeds took strike action today (June 13) in support of a pay claim that would properly reward them for their efforts in making the company a profitable one. …Read more…
Poorest hardest hit by Brexit
Just as the axe of austerity has fallen hardest on the poorest, so too, will low income families have to pay the dearest under a potential Brexit, according to a new report from a prominent economic…Read more…
Brexit — a Republic of Ireland perspective
There are good reasons why people in the Irish Republic are concerned by the referendum in Britain and Northern Ireland to decide future EU membership. That they are concerned is confirmed by a…Read more…
Demand public inquiry now
As one of the stalwarts of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC), Joe Rollin, a Unite industrial organiser from Barnsley, wants Unite members who have been very supportive so far to help…Read more…
Getting the work-football balance right
The 2016 European cup is already underway and a very sizable proportion of the country will be football fanciers for the next few weeks. So many people at work will want to watch the matches, so wise…Read more…
The case against left-Brexit: this is not a referendum on neoliberalism
A couple of weeks ago the IMF caused a minor sensation with a short article headed ‘Neoliberalism: Oversold?’. While the critique was limited in scope, its existence speaks volumes –front page news as far as the Financial Times was concerned. Something is now very obviously wrong with the economic…Read more…
Brexit Tories ‘cannot be trusted’
As soon as the EU Out campaign was dubbed BREXIT you could hear broadcast journalists salivating with unadulterated pleasure. It’s a word that demands emphasis. The Remain campaign without an…Read more…
No ‘snooping’ allowed
The Tory government’s sinister agenda aiming to silence all opposition is having a harder time getting through the legislative process than some might have thought. After concessions and…Read more…
If we want to continue the fight against climate change, Britain is ‘Stronger In’
Earlier this week, the former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson made a speech in which he argued that leaving the EU would improve our environment. The speech was little reported, even less debated, which is a shame. The economy, immigration and sove…Read more…
Keep defence work at home
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has serious questions to answer about the UK’s secretive procurement policy – the latest controversy being the decision to buy nine maritime patrol aircraft from…Read more…
Work/life balance attack
Faulty gas and electricity meters for households and businesses won’t be replaced as meter fixers working for energy giant E.ON go on strike in a ‘work/life balance’ dispute tomorrow (June 10)….Read more…
Swingeing pay cuts
Unite will ballot more than 200 North Sea oil rig workers for strike action in a dispute with the Wood Group over a swingeing 30 per cent pay cut. The ballot, in conjunction with the GMB and…Read more…
‘Zombie’ companies threaten millions of jobs
‘Zombie’ companies in China are selling goods lower than it costs to produce them are a threat to jobs in the UK and the rest of Europe, warned Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke as he…Read more…
Learning with Unite
Union-organised learning is a great way to recruit new members and highlight the benefits of being in a union – that was the message that came out of Community Learning Day in Bristol this week….Read more…