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‘Liverpool’s potential is huge’
The city of Liverpool may have made upwards of £40m from hosting this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, with UK and overseas visitors spending millions in hotels, pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues. It’s an economic boon that any city should be proud of – but just how much of those untold millions have landed in […]
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Heathrow ‘cynically suppressing pay’ for lowest earners
Unite has accused Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) airport of cynically attempting to suppress pay for its lowest paid workers. HAL, which is a living wage employer, is seeking to finally pay the London Living Wage (LLW) foundation increase (which came into effect in January) to its lowest paid staff, increasing pay to £11.95 an hour. […]
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Learning at Work Week – Create the Future
Learning at Work Week, 15-21 May 2023, is an annual event which gives organisations, trade unions and ULRs the opportunity to raise the profile of adult education and celebrate the power of lifelong learning to transform lives.
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Government does U-turn but rights still at risk
The deregulatory dreams of Tory extremists have collided with reality, forcing the government to overhaul its much-criticised Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
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Trade unions are fighting for trans rights
The workers’ movement has now established the Trade Unions for Trans Rights Network, a campaigning network that will organise for trans rights at work and in wider society – alongside LGBTQ+ charities and community organisations.
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68 is too late!
Unite has joined forces with the National Pensioners’ Convention (NPC) and the Scottish Pensioners’ Forum (SPF) to launch a campaign to demand that the government rules out any further increases to the state pension age. In the first of many demonstrations, Unite, NPC and SPF activists mobilised outside Parliament alongside Labour MPs on Tuesday (May […]
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Government’s anti-strikes bill defeated in the House of Lords – where next for the campaign to protect our right to strike
Last week saw a string of defeats for the government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill in the House of Lords. A combination of Labour, Lib Dem, crossbench peers and bishops vote in support of amendments that neutered the worst bits of this terrib…Read more…
Ninety years on from the Nazi ban on free trade unions, the lessons remain relevant to us today
Ninety years ago, the Nazis banned free trade unions. Nine decades later, we remember this step towards tyranny and recommit ourselves to the defence of free trade unions in thriving democracies.
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‘We refuse to accept poor pay’
Striking health workers were joined by hundreds of protestors at a May Day NHS demo in London outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Monday (May 1) to collectively demand a decent pay rise for NHS staff. Unite members employed by Guys and St Thomas’ Trust and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, who had begun a first […]
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This May Day, let’s fight to win
This May Day, let’s resolve to fight for all working people, in all our wonderful diversity. Ultimately, that’s the best way to win the change we need.
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UniteLive stories of the year – ‘Change starts in the workplace’
Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at Unite general secretary Sharon Graham’s inspiring May Day message. – May 1st is an important date for trade unions. For us it marks International Workers Day. It is time to reflect on […]
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Welsh workers remember their colleagues who were killed at work while the UK government plans to remove British laws which make workplaces safe
On 28 April, workers across Wales who lost their lives at work will be remembered in a national ceremony in Cardiff attended by the First Minister.
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NHS strikes resume
After roundly rejecting the government’s pay offer, Unite members at Guys and St Thomas’ Trust in South London, and the Yorkshire Ambulance Trust, will strike on Monday (May 1). Meanwhile, Unite members at South Central, South East Coast and West Midlands ambulance trusts alongside workers at Christies NHS Foundation Trust, Christies Pathology Partnership, East Lancashire […]
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UniteLive stories of the year – ‘This can’t continue’
Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at our International Workers’ Memorial Day story, where we highlight the issue of suicide in construction and how Unite is making a big difference. — The construction sector has made significant strides in […]
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Lesbian Visibility Week
Lesbian Visibility Week is an opportunity to show solidarity with our lesbian members and friends.
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Asbestos is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in Britain #IWMD
More than 5,000 people every year are losing their lives to asbestos-related illness, caused by exposure at work. This is something unions are working every day to highlight – and to change.
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Giving control away: why the new Pacific trade deal threatens our rights and laws
Giving control away: why the new Pacific trade deal threatens our rights and laws
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In Turkey trade unionists face politically motivated injustice
TUC report on the international trade union trial observation delegation to Ankara, Turkey.
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Rana Plaza – Ten Years Later
Rana Plaza killed 1,136 people, many of them knowing they were working in an unsafe factory but – without unions to guarantee their rights – powerless to do anything about it.
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