Crashing out of the EU without a deal will give Boris Johnson free rein to strip away workers’ hard-won rights and protections.Read more…
Trade unionists led the fight for LGBT rights, but the struggle for an equal world continues
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too, The Tories have staged a twenty first century coup He’s only in Downing Street because of a few Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too Wielding the axe to the…Read more…
Disruption at Drax
Construction members of Unite, the UK’s construction union, working at the Drax power station in north Yorkshire are to take strike action next month in a dispute over the recognition of national…Read more…
No-deal US deal could sound NHS ‘death knell’
A Trump trade deal after a no deal Brexit would be the NHS’ “death knell”, campaigners have warned. US pharmaceutical firms are intent on ending health service agreements that keep the cost of…Read more…
Fat cats still rule the roost
Fat cats at the UK’s biggest firms are still raking in 117 times more than the average worker, despite on overall drop in their pay. New analysis by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and…Read more…
‘Drop the threats’ call
Workers at Dulux paint producer AkzoNobel in Stowmarket, Suffolk are being balloted for strike action over a ‘paltry’ pay offer, as the bosses issue an ultimatum to withdraw an already rejected…Read more…
‘It’s going to create chaos’
Government plans to immediately end freedom of movement in the event of a no deal Brexit would dwarf the Windrush scandal, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has warned. Unite condemned the…Read more…
‘Fighting for the future of every child’
Health visitors and hundreds of their supporters, including Labour’s shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, marched through Lincoln’s cobbled streets on Saturday (August 17) to stand up for the…Read more…
A new reign for Greene King?
Unite is seeking urgent meeting with the new owners of Greene King, the UK’s largest pub and brewery firm, following an announcement that it is to be taken over by a Hong Kong-based multinational….Read more…
‘Discredited austerity regime’
Stoke-on-Trent city council has been accused of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” over plans to axe about 250 jobs so that it can give a financial boost to children’s services. Unite said the…Read more…
‘Deeply sinister’
Unite has accused Merseyside police of being heavy handed with union activists protesting against working conditions at a construction site near Ellesmere Port.
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H&W workers: ‘We will dictate who buys our company’
In a boost to workers occupying Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff, administrators have said there have been “positive discussions” over the site’s sale and have struck a deal with Unite to keep…Read more…
The Franchise system still isn’t working, regardless of who runs the west coast
Yesterday the government announced that Virgin Trains would not run the West Coast mainline for the first time since 1997. A consortium of FirstGroup and Trenitalia (the Italian state rail operator,…Read more…
Learning to put hope and power into the hands of young workers
Last Saturday, 20 young workers from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region came together in Sheffield for the first time to learn how to organise. Here’s what we learned.Read more…
The economy of the many is better than the economy of the few
200 years ago today (16 August), a public meeting on St. Peter’s Field in Manchester was savagely broken up by government forces. Shelly’s famous poem ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ commemorated those who…Read more…
‘Maximum support’
Labour’s shadow health and social care secretary Jon Ashworth will give Lincolnshire’s health visitors ‘maximum support’ when he addresses a well-supported rally in Lincoln tomorrow (August 17)….Read more…
‘Massive leap forward’
Unite has welcomed the news today (August 16) that the Turkish military pension fund Oyak has entered into exclusive talks with the government to buy British Steel. Oyak announced on Friday…Read more…
‘Who wants to eat bleach?’
“Of course we want to make sure the same [American] standards are used,” Zippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau told the BBC this week. Duvall is the latest in a line of American…Read more…
North West petrol shortage warning
Unite is warning that petrol shortages and delays to flights are likely to occur if tanker drivers employed by Hoyer Petrolog UK Limited based in Ellesmere Port take industrial action in a pay…Read more…