More than 300 bus drivers employed by First West Yorkshire in Bradford are ready to announce strike dates, unless the bosses up their ‘truly pathetic’ two-year pay deal, Unite the union warned today…Read more…
‘Inflation has not been caused by working people’
Unite has condemned comments by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, who has said workers should not ask for pay rises to avoid a so-called ‘wage-price spiral’ – a theoretical scenario dismissed…Read more…
‘Catastrophe for millions of people’
The cost of living crisis facing households across the UK is set to intensify drastically after the energy regulator Ofgem today (February 3) confirmed a unprecedented 54 per cent increase in the…Read more…
Levelling Up White Paper leaves low paid workers behind
Creating new and better jobs is important; but this Levelling Up White Paper has left those in low paid, insecure work behind.Read more…
Construction workers pursue pay rise
Unions, led by Unite, the UK’s leading construction union, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in a bid to redress pay cuts…Read more…
Skills, schools and levelling up
Today the Department for Education trailed some of the major measures on education and skills that will be announced in the levelling up white paper imminently. There is little disagreement on the…Read more…
Government must step up and deliver the public transport system the North East deserves
There is a real link between public transport and a person’s ability to get on in life. But our local buses and trains are failing the communities they are supposed to serve.Read more…
‘It’s about time somebody took a stand’
This week refuse collection drivers employed by Coventry council have embarked on a new round of all-out strike action after council leaders went back on their pledge to make a fresh offer in the…Read more…
GB Terminals staff beat back fire and rehire
Strikes by Sheerness dock workers employed by GB Terminals have ended after the company backed down over fire and rehire plans, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (February 1). More than 30…Read more…
Bus strikes on cards over ‘pitiful’ pay offer
Bus passengers across London, Essex and Kent are facing severe disruption this spring, as bus drivers employed by Arriva ballot for industrial action following a ‘pitiful’ pay offer. Over 1,300…Read more…
Gov’t mandatory NHS jab U-turn welcomed
Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said NHS staff can breathe a sigh of relief for the moment with the confirmation that health and social care secretary Sajid Javid was now…Read more…
Ford cleaners pay win
Cleaners at Ford Dagenham and the Ford Dunton Technical Centre in Essex have accepted a 5.1 per cent pay rise for 2022, Unite the union announced today (January 31). Over 150 cleaners, employed by…Read more…
Coventry bin strikes begin
An all-out continuous bin strike began today (January 31) in Coventry after council leaders reneged on a commitment to make a fresh offer in the dispute over pay. Representatives from Unite met with…Read more…
Unite leads fight against health and social care bill
Unite has joined with Your NHS Needs You to force a debate in parliament, after over 135,000 people signed a petition calling for the health service to be renationalised. It also demands that…Read more…
Outsourced Serco workers at Barts begin two-week strike
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, began a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust today (January 31). Meanwhile, a rally coinciding with the…Read more…
Profit-hungry Royal Mail plans to axe 900 jobs
You’d think that the Royal Mail would want to celebrate and value its’ staff. After all, didn’t they pull out all the stops for the nation – and earned huge profits for the shareholders? They most…Read more…
Never again
Read and hear Davy Kettle’s moving tribute to Holocaust victims
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One day without genocide
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) when people across the world gather to remember the more than 6m Jewish people who were massacred in the Holocaust, as well as the millions more who were…Read more…
People must have confidence their workplace is safe as we learn to live with Covid
At long last a new normal is emerging in workplaces across the UK, as the vaccine programme provides greater protection against the threat of coronavirus.Read more…
British Volt factory welcomed
Unite has welcomed news that British Volts’ Northumberland gigafactory will go ahead. The British Volt factory, being built on the site of the former Blyth power station, is great news for the region…Read more…