This week’s public sector pay announcement – where less than a fifth of public sector workers were granted a pay rise – was followed almost immediately by the government warning of continued…Read more…
Fix broken tipping system now
Repeat a lie often enough, and people will think it’s true – this is the mantra successive Tory governments have adopted, after pledging countless times for more than four years now to introduce…Read more…
easyJet staff ‘losing faith’ in airline
easyJet staff will hold socially distanced demonstrations this week at Newcastle, Southend and Stansted airports over the firm’s plans to close its operations at those locations and shed 1,290 cabin…Read more…
‘Save our Jobs’ call
Dozens of workers in the hospitality industry, Unite members, stood together in socially distanced solidarity at a pair of demonstrations today (July 21) to call on employers and the government to…Read more…
Millions of public sector workers denied pay rise
Millions of workers have been left out of the latest public sector pay increase announced today (July 21), which is to cover only about 900,000 workers, or 20 per cent of the public sector workforce….Read more…
Protect our steel jobs call
Speculation has emerged that Tata is in talks with the UK government to replace the plant’s blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces as a condition of its investment in the site.
The post Protect…Read more…
UK govt ‘not doing enough’
Unite has commented on business secretary Alok Sharma’s new announcement today (July 20) of £200m worth of grants for the aerospace industry – saying that despite these grants bringing some support –…Read more…
‘Fighting back against tyranny’
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunctional, fragile, exploitative, wholly…Read more…
‘Every death is a tragedy’
“Independent, credible studies such as ones by the University College London and the University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed how one of the tragedies of…Read more…
Southbank Centre support call
The prospect of London’s Southbank Centre – the UK’s largest arts complex – not receiving a generous slice of the government’s £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts would be ‘a national…Read more…
Unite: Govt must ‘step up to the plate’
Unite is urging the government and industry’s major employers to step up to the plate and act responsibly to save jobs, invest in skills and employee development programmes through the creation of…Read more…
Scrap ‘queen of the skies’ call
Unite believes that while the 747 jet is held in high regard, it is now time for the ‘queen of the skies’ to relinquish her throne. The entire aviation industry’s stock of older, more polluting…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE we bring you the latest heroes – those who are keeping the country going through a devastating time – and the zeroes, those who are failing the just when we…Read more…
‘They’re left totally in the dark’
Ahead of this year’s online Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival event this weekend (July 17-19), UniteLIVE earlier this week explored the issue of rural poverty – and what we can do to fight it. Investment…Read more…
Buyers seek to purchase Appledore
Unite has welcomed the revelation that there are now three consortiums actively seeking to purchase the mothballed Appledore shipyard in North Devon. Unite understands that a final announcement on…Read more…
UK payrolls dwindle by 640,000 under lockdown
Pressure is growing on chancellor Rishi Sunak to take further action to avert a growing jobs crisis after new figures published today (July 16) show the number of people on UK payrolls plummeted by…Read more…
Here’s why you should fix the apprenticeship levy, Chancellor
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their workforces or those of their supply…Read more…
More BBC job losses announced
The latest round of job losses announced today (July 15) by the BBC in response to the coronavirus pandemic has been deplored by Unite. The BBC said that increased financial pressure, as a result of…Read more…
‘Stay upbeat and determined’
Every year we celebrate our union’s history at rural trade union festivals all around the country – the women Chainmakers, Tolpuddle, Burston and others. We come together in lanes, fields and tents…Read more…
Vote of no confidence in easyJet executive
Unite , which represents thousands of workers at easyJet, has begun a ballot of no confidence in the company’s Chief Operating Officer Peter Bellew. The ballot of Unite’s membership at easyJet is in…Read more…