Changes need to be made to Wales’ Self-Isolation Support Scheme to make sure that all lower paid workers are getting the help they need to isolate.Read more…
Cadbury Bournville investment ‘credit’ to Unite members
Unite has praised its Cadbury Bournville members and representatives for their part in helping to secure a £15 million investment at the historic Birmingham site.
The post Cadbury Bournville…Read more…
‘Brutal’ Heathrow pay cuts
Heathrow Unite members took another day of strike action today (February 5) in addition to the four days of strike action they took in December. More strikes are planned for February 9, 13, 16 and…Read more…
‘I’ve forgotten what it’s like to just be free’
“I’m sad today. I have too much work. It stacks up so quickly and I don’t have the same support I’d have in school. I get easily overwhelmed and I got a consequence on my school record today because…Read more…
❤ Unions week is back
Next Monday, February 8 sees the fifth annual Heart Unions week where trade union members and workers across the country come together to celebrate the amazing things unions do. The last year…Read more…
The Poet
In the Rotunda where once Lincoln and Kennedy lay in state rioters carrying confederate flags spat in the eyes of democracy. He craved power. The flames of sedition lit by a crowd dangerously devoted…Read more…
Needlessly in danger of Covid exposure
Unite is warning that thousands of council and social housing tenants in Kent, as well as the housing maintenance workers who maintain their homes, are being put at unnecessary risk of Covid-19…Read more…
‘No option but to step up strike action’
The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders based at the site, announced a further six days of strike action in a dispute over pay. The workers have…Read more…
Workers at Heathrow renew strikes
Workers employed by Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) will renew strike action tomorrow (February 5) in a bitter dispute, over the company’s decision to fire and rehire its entire workforce on vastly…Read more…
Public Service Alliance: Key Worker Lobby
They are getting us through lockdown after lockdown — cleaning our hospitals, taking us to work and keeping food on supermarket shelves. But 2 million key workers right now live on minimum wage….Read more…
“I feel like I’ve been punished for following the rules.”
A zero-hours worker shares their experience of trying to obtain Test and Trace Support Payment.Read more…
Launching the Preston ‘Join a Union’ campaign
HS2 social distancing helmets warning
Unite has warned that hi tech hard hats which sound a warning when workers come within two metres of each other, should not be used as a disciplinary tool but as an education device. Unite issued its…Read more…
Unite joins forces with Day-Mer in ‘long overdue’ campaign
A new campaign has been launched to eradicate pay and employment abuses of members of the Turkish and Kurdish communities in London during the pandemic. Unite the union has joined forces with…Read more…
Mitie ‘targeting low-paid cleaners’ at Heathrow
Low paid cleaners, employed by multi-million pound outsourcing company Mitie, have been left fearing for their jobs after the company reneged on a previous agreement regarding training. The workers,…Read more…
‘Angry and frustrated’
Norwegian Air workers are ‘angry and frustrated’ after recent assurances from the company that they would receive the required redundancy payments if it failed proved to be entirely false. Instead,…Read more…
Portsmouth council ‘recklessly putting workers and tenants at risk’
Portsmouth council has been accused of needlessly exposing its council housing tenants and outsourced workers to potential exposure to Covid-19. Unite has become increasingly alarmed that workers at…Read more…
GE’s ‘financial torpedo’ on workers’ pensions
Nearly 3,000 workers at industrial conglomerate GE will be taking ‘a huge financial hit’ under proposals to close the defined benefit final salary pension scheme, Unite warned today (February 1)….Read more…
Pay promise broken
Merseyside glassmakers employed by Pilkington are being balloted for strike action over the company’s failure to deliver a promised 2.5 per cent pay rise, Unite said today (January 29). More than 100…Read more…
Security guards in ‘David and Goliath’ pay battle
Security staff at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, locked in a ‘David and Goliath’ pay battle with their employer, will be staging a third wave of strikes into early March. The 20 security…Read more…