Unite held three hours of talks with Sainsbury’s management yesterday (August 8) when, Unite national officer for the food industry Joe Clarke said, the union “made robust representations…Read more…
Unpaid leave plan slammed
Cash-strapped Somerset county council’s plan to ask its workforce to take two days unpaid leave in each of the next two years is a result of its own financial incompetence, Unite said today (August…Read more…
Worse off
Workers at a leading crane manufacturer in Sunderland will be starting a series of strikes tonight (August 9) in a dispute over an ‘inadequate’ pay offer. The workforce at the Liebherr…Read more…
‘Clear act of discrimination’
London bus driver Marcia Carty drives her bus every day wearing her standard work uniform. But like many people practicing certain religions, she also wears a symbol to observe her faith. In her…Read more…
‘Profit-hungry tentacles’
How the private sector has extended its profit-hungry tentacles across the NHS hoovering up lucrative contracts should come under the scrutiny of MPs when parliament returns in the autumn. The…Read more…
More funding for GP services call
Doctors in Unite (DiU) has joined the call for further investment in general practice, after the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) urged a £2.5bn cash injection on top of the extra NHS…Read more…
Are unions winning the US Mid-West?
On Tuesday, the mid-western state of Missouri voted two to one to reject a right to work law, a law common in the deep south that’s been credited with reducing wages and union organisation. It’s a…Read more…
‘Significant decision’
Unite has reached an agreement which bans workers from being employed via exploitative umbrella companies on a major highways contract in the North West of England. The agreement to ban…Read more…
Backing construction workers
Crawley Council is giving its backing to a Unite Construction Charter that seeks to ensure that conditions for workers on construction projects under local authority control in Crawley meet the…Read more…
End ‘fountain for profit’ call
Water may seem as natural and ‘free’ a resource as they come – it falls from the sky after all, and it’s essential to all forms of life. But in the UK and increasingly around the world, water has…Read more…
‘Outrageous attack on pay’
Unite has launched legal action on behalf of a group of low paid workers employed at Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishments in the Gosport area who have had their working year unilaterally cut by…Read more…
‘Battle for fair pay’
Over 100 low paid cleaners at Luton Airport employed by Sasse Group are calling for their pay to be brought in line with the real living wage of £8.75. The workers who are responsible…Read more…
‘Very good’ pay deal
Drivers working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink have accepted a ‘very good’ three year pay deal, Unite announced today (August 7). Unite hailed the package as ‘a great achievement’ which…Read more…
Left behind
Struggling families in the North are being locked out of job opportunities because of unreliable and unaffordable public transport, new research has shown. The study, commissioned by the…Read more…
NHS ‘not up for auction’
Virgin Care has hoovered up nearly £2bn of health service contracts over the last five years, new analysis that provides a worrying insight into the creeping privatisation of the NHS shows. In…Read more…
‘Sad state of affairs’
A rural charity is producing a “village survival guide” after a survey revealed that many countryside residents feel isolated and ignored. Unite welcomed the move but said real change to…Read more…
‘Never again!’
Vile right-wing thugs attacked a socialist and trade union bookshop in central London on Saturday (August 4), prompting an outpouring of solidarity for the bookseller and its staff. Around a…Read more…
Leadsom’s ‘ironic’ early years care ‘boost’
Unite has branded Tory plans to boost early years care services “ironic” given the party has spent years running them down. Tory MP Andrea Leadsom, who has been appointed chair of a new…Read more…
‘Exploited’
Unite has accused the government of washing its hands of thousands of workers who are experiencing the misery of being paid via an umbrella company. There has been a huge surge in the number…Read more…
‘Sign or be sacked’?
Unite is due to hold talks with Sainsbury’s bosses on Wednesday (August 8) over a collective grievance by the union’s members in the long-running ‘sign or be sacked’ contracts row affecting 123,000…Read more…