Unite has warned that forcing construction workers in London onto bikes is potentially dangerous. Unite issued its warning after Transport for London (TfL) issued travel advice for construction…Read more…
Latest UK car production figures ‘worst in a generation’
UK car production last year plummeted by almost a third to fewer than one million cars, the biggest slump since 1984. New car industry figures highlight the massive toll the coronavirus pandemic has…Read more…
Quarantine hotels must be Covid-secure
Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hospitality and hotel sector, is warning that the government’s plans to introduce quarantine hotels must not risk the health of the workers in…Read more…
Fresh Babcock strikes at RAF Leeming
Strike action by Babcock Aerospace workers at RAF Leeming, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, over a £5,000 pay disparity will continue until the end of February, Unite said today (January 28)….Read more…
Government ditches workers’ rights review
Following pressure from Labour and trade unions, the government has taken yet another screeching U-turn after axing a review of EU-derived workers’ rights. Earlier this month, the Financial Times…Read more…
‘Incredible achievement’
Unite announced today (January 27) that British Airways cargo strikes had been called off after a deal had been struck, pending members’ vote. Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett…Read more…
‘Further blow to aviation sector’
Unite has reiterated its call for the government to support the aviation sector as home secretary Priti Patel announced a new hotel quarantine system for arrivals from high-risk countries. Patel…Read more…
‘We have a duty as trade unionists to remember’
On Holocaust Memorial Day today (January 27) Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner has a special message for members. Watch in the video below: Film by Martin Scanlon
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‘Tremendous result’
Unite has secured a deal, subject to a members’ ballot, to end the long running dispute over British Airways’ plans to fire and rehire the workforce in its cargo division. Members of Unite…Read more…
‘Be the light in the darkness’
Every year on January 27, people across the world join in solidarity to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), on the anniversary of the day Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death…Read more…
Time for certainty on worker protection as unemployment rises fast
The government must end the drip feed of worker and business protection, and announce the extension of the furlough scheme, including for the self-employed, to the end of the year.Read more…
‘Fix furlough and extend it now’
Urging the government to extend the job retention scheme, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey today (January 26) said, “The government mustn’t repeat the mistake of the last time round when it…Read more…
‘Please follow the guidelines’
Yet more frontline bus driver heroes have died in this current wave of the Covid pandemic.
Earlier today (January 25) Unite paid tribute to ‘well-loved and respected’ Brighton bus driver Christopher…Read more…
Manchester bus drivers fight fire and rehire plans
Unite will begin balloting its members at bus company Go North West in Manchester for strike action this week, in a dispute over the company’s decision to impose new contracts of employment by firing…Read more…
Labour forces vote on workers’ rights
Labour will today (January 25) force a vote on workers’ rights after reports last week that the government was mulling over plans to rip up employment protections now that the Brexit transition…Read more…
Workplace Covid outbreaks are at an all-time high. Where is the action?
The week to 14th January saw the highest number of reported Covid outbreaks since the pandemic began.Read more…
FE white paper – a missed opportunity to boost retraining and skills
We need far more from the government on skills to support the economic recovery.
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Fire and rehire tactics are levelling down pay
Employers have taken advantage of lockdown and cut-throat “fire-and-rehire” tactics to slash the pay and conditions of one in four workers, according to TUC polling.Read more…
Unite secures pay-out for former Halton Transport workers
Unite has welcomed an employment tribunal decision which sees 85 former Halton Transport workers, Unite members, receive a pay-out that could exceed £200,000 in total after the bus operator failed to…Read more…
Heathrow Airport strikes latest
Unite members at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) will undertake renewed strike action next month in the increasingly bitter dispute over the company’s decision to fire and rehire its entire workforce,…Read more…