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Boosting workers’ voice can make the everyday economy work better for everyone
Barriers young BME workers face in the labour market
A new exhibition makes the case against the Private Finance Initiatives
Private Finance Initiatives have received a bad rap recently. And rightly so.Read more…
Judge makes ‘mockery of process’
Unite has backed today’s (Wednesday March 21) walkout of participants at the Mittings public inquiry into undercover policing. The walkout is a reaction to the refusal of Sir John Mittings,…Read more…
‘Truly appalling’
Tens of thousands of sick and disabled people have been denied benefits they were legally entitled to because of “shoddy administration”, according to an official report. A National Audit…Read more…
‘At long last’
After eight years of crippling pay freezes, more than one million NHS staff are being offered increases of a least 6.5 per cent over three years – with the lowest paid full time staff receiving an…Read more…
Shining a spotlight on structural racism in Britain today
Today is the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.Read more…
If Theresa May is serious about tackling racial inequality – it needs to be more than a £90m promise
PM announces £90 million programme to help tackle inequalities in youth unemployment highlighted by the Race Disparity Audit’s website.Read more…
Real wages far below where they were before the recession.
According to the ONS statistics, the average worker is now bringing home about £15 less each week than they were before the financial crisis. This adds up to just under £800 across a year.Read more…
When I see a promise from the government to help disabled people, I question it
DWP had underpaid approximately 700,000 disabled people since 2011 and owed around £340,000,000. They have promised to make repayments, but when I see a promise from the government to help disabled…Read more…
Follow the money
Thousands of Unite union reps are using the union’s powerful online tool to generate pay claims as part of the union’s growing campaign to fight for increased pay and a fair share of company profits….Read more…
‘Get NHS back on feet’ call
A Tory Brexit will hurt NHS funding, increase waiting times and make staff shortages worse, a new report has warned. Instead of the extra £350m a week Conservative leave campaigners promised…Read more…
‘Responsible must be held to account’
Two of Carillion’s former finance chiefs are to be investigated by the UK’s accounting watchdog for their roles in the firm’s spectacular implosion. Unite welcomed the move, but said the sheer…Read more…
‘Very disappointing news’
North Sea oil giant Total has announced that 250 workers in Scotland will lose their jobs following its multi-billion pound takeover of another firm. The losses come despite claims that the…Read more…
The government’s benefit uprating policy is hitting the poorest families hard
Tampering with uprating mechanisms to reduce the value of benefits was a political decision taken in 2010 to slash the welfare budget.Read more…
Pensioners’ relief as government sees sense on RPI, with hopeful signs of wider U-turn on statistics
Inflation measurement has hit the headlines again.Read more…
Adapt or die?
It was their horrific workplace conditions that brought them together – and now the three nightshift workers at a London hotel are the best of friends. Within a few months of starting,…Read more…
‘Rising anger’
Unite said it had ‘no confidence’ in Melrose’s vision or strategy for GKN after the firm refused to give guarantees on jobs, skills and investment today (March 19). In a full and frank…Read more…
Pensions White Paper: bullets dodged but opportunities missed
Inadequate pensions, expensive pensions, pensions going to the lifeboat scheme: there is a long list of hot topics in UK retirement provision. But today’s long-awaited Defined Benefit White Paper is…Read more…