Just a month after Cameron’s post-election U-turn on a 10 per cent pay rise for MPs, Tories say public sector workers may not get their 1 per cent pay rise after all. Public sector workers…Read more…
Keep Goodyear in UK fight
The Goodyear Dunlop plant in Wolverhampton is productive, profitable and held up by the company as an example of how to do things right. So why do they want to close it and move production to…Read more…
Meter staff in pay loss protest
EDF Energy staff in London, southern and western England will be taking part in a 24-hour stoppage next Wednesday (September 2) following a breakdown in talks over proposals which could see some…Read more…
Fit to die?
The department for work and pensions’ (DWP) Work Capability Assessments aren’t fit for purpose and should be scrapped in their current form, Unite urged today as shock figures revealed over 4,000…Read more…
Intervene before it’s too late
Unite called for government action to help Britain’s steel industry as Tata Steel announced it would be mothballing its Llanwern steel mill with the loss of 250 jobs. Today’s (August 26) job…Read more…
Will the new Immigration Bill throw foreign students that work too many hours in jail?
The Immigration minister James Brokenshire yesterday announced more details about the forthcoming Immigration Bill. He stated that: “Through our new immigration bill, illegal workers will face the prospect of a prison term and rogue employers could have their businesses closed, have their licences…Read more…
Festival fights intolerance
A vibrant festival shows that celebrating diversity and fostering equality can be fun and inclusive to everyone in the community. And that was certainly the case on Saturday August 22 when…Read more…
‘No Minister’
The independent watchdog given the job of monitoring government legislation by business secretary Sajid Javid has told him his own Trade Union Bill is “not fit for purpose”. The watchdog gave…Read more…
Displaced and dispossessed
Imagine you have lived on a large estate as part of a community for almost 10 years. You raise your two daughters there alone but you have the support of friends you have made close by. One by…Read more…
TV tips debate
Watch Dave Turnbull, Unite National Officer for food and drink talking about fair tips on ITV’s This Morning. If you haven’t already please sign the petition here
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Culture of fear
Contractors building the energy-from-waste plant at Wilton on Teesside are undercutting pay rates and using ‘exploitative’ employment practices say unions. Construction unions Unite, the GMB…Read more…
The largest one-day fall on FTSE since 2009 in its historical context
Yesterday global stock exchanges had their worse day for many years, for some unmatched since the financial crisis of 2008. The FTSE fell by 4.55%, the largest daily fall since 2 March 2009 (when down 5.3%); when markets shut the index was at 5899, its lowest ‘close’ for almost three…Read more…
Tube strike: Unite suspends action
Over 400 members of the Unite union have suspended industrial action at London Underground as a gesture of goodwill following progress in talks over the introduction of Tube night running. The…Read more…
Revisit public inquiry plea
Ahead of the second anniversary of the Sumburgh offshore helicopter tragedy, Unite has called on the UK government to urgently revisit the recommendation of the previous parliament’s Transport Select…Read more…
Meals of justice
Congratulations to Unite organiser Ewa Jasiewicz and the Unite activists who staged the first ‘Meal of Justice’ at Pizza Express recently. As part of the campaign to get Pizza Express to…Read more…
Gas bills a lot of hot air?
With wholesale gas price close to hitting record lows, will the energy giants pass on savings in lower bills or bank higher profits? For some, it might still be a question of ‘heat or…Read more…
‘Teetering on edge of abyss’
Workers from nine sub-contracting companies will be staging a wave of industrial action in the escalating dispute at Sellafield in Cumbria to improve health and safety and productivity at the nuclear…Read more…
Cambodia’s minimum wage: employers plead poverty despite global brand pledges to pay
Cambodia is one of the main sources of textiles for Europe and North America, and it’s on the front line of the campaign for a living wage in global supply chains. So the forthcoming review of…Read more…
Small gains, big pains
A newly issued briefing from the influential Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has said that the potential gains from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would…Read more…
“There are growing fears about the health of the global economy”, headlines BBC News at Ten
Yesterday (20 August) Robert Peston’s report on the growing crisis in emerging market economies was given top billing on the BBC News at Ten (you might still be able to catch it here). Motivated mainly by the slowdown in China, and covering an array of stock market, exchange rate and other economic…Read more…