As the adverse impact of the ending of the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit (UC) looms, Coventry City Council has been praised for becoming a Right to Food city, despite Tory councillors voting…Read more…
‘They aren’t fixing anything’
When prime minister Boris Johnson unveiled plans to ‘fix’ social care this week, totally absent were those at the very heart of it – the millions of carers, both paid and unpaid, without whose…Read more…
Going green with Unite
With the recent report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) painting a stark picture of the future without immediate cuts to carbon emissions, and the CoP 26 in Glasgow only…Read more…
About Money
A new play written by a Unite member lays bare the consequences of divide and rule tactics in the workplace – and reflects “exactly what’s going on” in the real-life hospitality sector.
The post…Read more…
‘All rights to all workers from day one’
Unite is supporting a new parliamentary bill to be debated in the House of Lords on Friday (September 10) that would give “all rights to all workers from day one”. Lord John Hendy QC’s Status of…Read more…
‘Fair day’s pay for hard day’s work’
Unite has secured a huge pay increase for HGV drivers employed by Wincanton on the North West England Argos contract. Over 90 drivers based at the company’s Heywood depot in Greater Manchester will…Read more…
‘Climate change is a class issue’
As extreme weather events increase with ferocious force; as air pollution claims exponentially more lives; and as crop yields wither in once-abundant regions around the world, there’s a growing…Read more…
Key to UK’s clean fuel future
Ahead of MPs debating the future of Westinghouse Springfields in Preston, Lancashire, yesterday (September 7), in Westminster Hall, representatives of Unite held a small rally on College Green…Read more…
Weetabix workers ‘will not accept fire and rehire’
Production of some of the nation’s favourite breakfast cereals will be hit when engineers employed by Weetabix at its Northamptonshire factories begin walk outs this month in opposition to the…Read more…
A cap on care costs is not reform – we need a new deal for the workforce
The government’s announcement doesn’t deliver the new deal the care workforce urgently needs.Read more…
‘Our members stood firm’
Further strike action at an historic Shropshire wheel factory has been called off after workers voted to accept an improved pay offer from the company, Unite said today (September 7). Unite members…Read more…
Tax raid on young and low-paid workers
Unite has slammed the government for failing to adequately fill a gaping hole in social care funding as prime minister Boris Johnson today (September 7) announced a National Insurance hike which will…Read more…
Can your employer force you back into the office?
Over the past few weeks there’s been reports of people being forced back to their workplaces without proper consultation, even as Covid-19 cases remain high.Read more…
TUC North West Women in Leadership programme 2021
We are delighted to announce that we are now taking applications to join our TUC North West Women in Leadership training programme. The Women in Leadership programme has been designed for women who…Read more…
‘Keep our families fed’ call
A group of Universal Credit claimants, members of Unite Community, will stage a protest outside parliament on Wednesday, September 8 from 10:30am to urge Tory MPs to back Labour’s push to cancel the…Read more…
Thamesmead drivers vote to strike
The threat of severe disruption to deliveries to more than 1,500 convenience stores in London and the south east has moved a step closer after 40 drivers, employed by Booker Retail Partners at its…Read more…
Springfields nuclear fuel facility must be protected
MPs will debate the future of Westinghouse Springfields tomorrow (September 7), the UK’s only facility suitable for making fuel for nuclear power generation. Trade unions Unite and Prospect have…Read more…
‘Ill health making driver shortages even worse’
A nationwide lorry driver shortage continues unabated, with news stories every day highlighting the consequences of an estimated 100,000 HGV driver shortfall. From increasing reports of gaps on…Read more…
Bexley bins victory
Bin strikes in Bexley, South London, have officially ended following the ratification of a pay deal between refuse collectors and their employer Serco, Unite said today (September 2). The deal…Read more…
UniteLive’s stories of the year – Battle of Stockton remembered
Every day for the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ this year, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2021. Today, we look back at a story from September, when Unite members…Read more…