Unite has called for Carillion not to keep its loyal workforce in the dark about the company’s future. There is increasing concern that the construction and outsourcing giant, which employs…Read more…
‘Massive’ strike vote
The workers at Cummins Generator Technologies in Stamford have voted by an overwhelming 93 per cent for strike action over the failure of management to negotiate constructively over plans to shed 300…Read more…
‘Predatory’ GKN bid
Unite today (January 12) urged the UK government to block a takeover bid of the engineering firm GKN by Melrose and for ministers to toughen up UK takeover rules so that national and social interests…Read more…
Reject pay offer call
Unite is to hold a consultative ballot of its members in local government covered by the “green book” with a recommendation that they reject the current pay offer. Members of Unite’s National…Read more…
Paying to work
In the latest example of shocking tipping practices at UK restaurants, it has been revealed that a chain of Italian restaurants operating in Bristol, Bath, Milton Keynes, Portishead, Worthing, and…Read more…
‘Brexatom’ threat
When British voters were asked in the EU referendum whether the UK should stay or leave, most didn’t know that they’d be voting on the future of the nuclear industry as well. But last…Read more…
UK manufacturing output and global demand
Figures issued earlier this week showed the best manufacturing performance for some time. But will it last?Read more…
To boost productivity and living standards, Britain needs more automation – not less
From Babbage and Lovelace to Berners-Lee, the UK has pioneered the development of digital technology.Read more…
Hidden from history: how trade unions championed LGBT+ equality
Unions stood against injustice even when it was unpopular.Read more…
‘Consider all options’ call
Unite is calling on the government to “consider all possible options” including bringing contracts in-house, as doubts continue to grow over the future of Carillion, the troubled construction and…Read more…
‘Not just a winter crisis’
In a symbolic victory, a Labour motion was passed yesterday (January 10) demanding that the government provide extra funding to tackle the winter crisis now engulfing the NHS. The Opposition…Read more…
Union reps victimised
More than 250 Unite members in Manchester have voted for 11 days of strike action at IT giant Fujitsu in one of the longest running industrial disputes in the UK. One of the features of this…Read more…
Real wages are still falling – so why is disposable income (just about) rising?
New ONS figures, released yesterday, show that working households’ disposable incomes have inched above the peak 2006/07 levels for the first time. But the meagre rate of increase – just 0.2 per cent…Read more…
Don’t close a healthy plant call
Len McCluskey has warned Peugeot-owner PSA that attempts to close the Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port will result in Unite making sure “their UK market is finished for good”. Unite’s general…Read more…
Don’t blame the flu
Politicians are over-egging the Australian flu outbreak to mask the underfunding destroying the NHS, a leading virologist has said. Fears have been expressed that the flu epidemic which swept…Read more…
‘Raising the white flag’
Unite warned the UK government that it was ‘raising the white flag’ without a fight to save Bombardier jobs today (January 10) as it said it was demanding an urgent meeting with the new secretary of…Read more…
Put passengers first plea
The government was today (January 10) slammed by an independent body over its botched handling of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise, which has seen hundreds of thousands of…Read more…
‘Constitutional outrage’
Unite has joined forces with manufacturers and other unions to urge MPs to protect manufacturing jobs by amending the controversial customs bill, a key part of the government’s Brexit legislation….Read more…
Stronger unions are vital
In one area after another, Unite is now leading the labour movement across Britain and Ireland. Politically our role is central. The part we have played in bringing a radical progressive…Read more…
‘Complete disarray’
More evidence of the chaotic introduction of the all-in-one benefit Universal Credit (UC) emerged last week, after a key part of the new system was taken offline. The ‘live service’ part of UC…Read more…