Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature our May Day film, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey called for a new deal for…Read more…
‘Come fly with me’?
At the beginning of this year, no one could have foretold how the aviation industry in the UK – a huge contributor to the economy, supporting nearly 1m jobs – would have so suddenly been brought to…Read more…
Video of the year – ‘My one wish this Christmas…’
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today we feature a film promoting Unite Community’s Universal Credit online day of action earlier this month,…Read more…
Video of the year – Let’s keep our industry flying
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a Unite film from August about the aviation industry and what the union is calling on the…Read more…
Unite’s ‘food warriors’
It is true to say that this Christmas certainly won’t be like any other – but for all the wrong reasons. We see the adverts every day. While the shiny families enjoy idealised Christmas Days, and the…Read more…
Video of the year – Len’s message to striking Optare workers
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we hear from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, who earlier on this month sent a message of…Read more…
‘Now is not the time to batten down the hatches’
Over the last decade the importance of organising workers has been critical to building real workplace density. That means the union is heard and, crucially, workplaces can be strike-ready, vital to…Read more…
Video of the year – ‘Don’t get bullied into working longer’
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we’re highlighting our videos of the year. Today, we hear from Unite national officer Adrian Jones, who explains changes to driver regulations,…Read more…
Stepping up to the plate
The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged sectors across the British economy, with not a single industry spared. Manufacturing took a massive hit, with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost since March and many…Read more…
Three years of silence – the government’s response to electronic balloting must be lost in the post
You can order your shopping, pay your bills and even vote in many political party ballots online. But when it comes to voting in union elections, the government insists only paper postal ballots will…Read more…
Battle for Barnoldswick
The announcement in August that Rolls-Royce was shipping 350 jobs at its Barnoldswick Trent engine blade factory to Singapore was a gut punch to both its workers and the town. With a population of…Read more…
Unite History Project
Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelings, recollections, triumphs and losses,…Read more…
‘Fair day’s pay for fair day’s work’
Members of the Unite and GMB unions employed at International Paint in Gateshead have announced strike action and an overtime ban beginning early next year in a dispute over pay and national…Read more…
Heathrow fire safety concerns
Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed throughout Heathrow airport, is warning that Heathrow Airport Limited’s (HAL) contingency plans during the ongoing strike action have failed to…Read more…
‘The forgotten key workers’
This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
The struggle for workers’ rights cannot be separated from the struggle for equality for discriminated groups
Ministers should move away from ‘divide and rule’ – and tackle socio-economic inequality in all its forms.Read more…
BAE systems apprentices recruitment drive
Unite has welcomed the announcement today (December 17) that BAE Systems will recruit 1,250 new trainees in 2021 as much needed positive news for the UK’s aerospace sector, The trainees will be…Read more…
‘A fight for our lives’
If the common saying is anything to go by, you’d think lovers and fighters were mutually exclusive categories — but Unite member and health and safety campaigner Hilda Palmer is in fact both….Read more…
‘Social solidarity is what Unite is all about’
Big-hearted car workers belonging to the Unite the union’s Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Solihull branch have raised £50,000 for five charities in the Birmingham region, as thousands in the city face a…Read more…
Ports congestion warning
Unite has responded to a call by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) for an investigation by parliament into the congestion at Britain’s ports, to warn that…Read more…