A union rep at Bromley council has won her employment tribunal (ET) case which found she was victimised for trade union activities, Unite has announced. Unite Legal Services lodged claims…Read more…
Pressing ahead
Members of Unite employed by Mears in Manchester in housing maintenance roles will begin a programme of 49 days of strikes next week. The strike action begins with a 48-hour stoppage on…Read more…
‘Dismantle’ low pay call
One in five people are still earning less than the Living Wage a new report has found, just as the wage rate increased today (November 6) to £10.20 in London and £8.75 in the rest of the UK. …Read more…
PIP verdict victory
A man with a severe mental illness who was refused proper disability benefits has had the decision overturned at a tribunal thanks to the help of Unite Community volunteers. The vulnerable…Read more…
Disenfranchised
Every time a group of people is disenfranchised, the arguments justifying it are often the same – that they are too immature to vote, that they are politically ill-informed, that they themselves…Read more…
‘What a mess’
The incompetence of this Tory government is so palpable it is almost embarrassing. It’s an incompetence compounded by a heartlessness to those least able to resist. Chaos at the heart of the…Read more…
Access denied
Using the toilet is a great leveller of humanity – even the highest paid fat cats have to “spend a penny”. As such it almost beggars belief that in this age of unprecedented development and…Read more…
Pay justice delay
Unite which represents thousands of social care workers has sharply criticised the announcement by the government today (November 2) about how workers underpaid for sleep over shifts while on duty…Read more…
‘Bogus’ self-employment
The use of ‘sham and bogus’ employment practices and agency worker abuses in the road transport industry is going to be tested at an employment tribunal (ET) in Manchester. Unite today…Read more…
Commit to defence call
Unite today (November 2) called on the new defence secretary Gavin Williamson to reverse the ‘hollowing out’ of Britain’s sovereign defence capability and spend the UK’s defence budget to support…Read more…
‘Final wake-up call’
As the NHS suffers a growing retention and recruitment crisis, new figures reveal that Brexit may be compounding the problem. The number of EU nurses and midwives coming to the UK to work has…Read more…
‘Festive pay boost’
Hundreds of cleaners at Manchester Airport have called off industrial action having secured an extra 50p an hour or around an extra £850 a year, plus double time for working over Christmas and New…Read more…
Restoring our dignity
Unite has won a long–running campaign for the right of delivery drivers to use an employers’ toilets while conducting deliveries. From this week employers in control of non-domestic premises…Read more…
Asbestos workers at risk
Unite has warned that government proposals to water down vital life-saving asbestos regulations are risking the health of asbestos workers. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has consulted…Read more…
Sellafield strike on
Bosses at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant have ‘gone cold’ on the possibility of a pay deal as a one-day strike by more than 1,100 craft workers on Tuesday (November 7) is set to go-ahead….Read more…
Brexit secrets?
The government is refusing to release 58 secret Brexit impact studies in order to obstruct Parliament and hide the damage its “shambolic” handling of Brexit could cause the country, Unite has said….Read more…
‘Wage theft’
Macdonald Hotels stand accused of ‘wage theft’ today (October 31) in explosive evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs select committee’s inquiry into sustainable employment by Unite….Read more…
‘Obsessed with austerity’
The austerity-obsessed Jersey government won’t be allowed to slash the wages of its workers, Unite said today (October 31). The modernisation programme of States of Jersey Government, the…Read more…
Pay deal win
Cabin crew working for British Airways’ mixed fleet have overwhelmingly voted to accept a pay deal that brings their long running dispute to an end, Unite announced today (October 31). …Read more…
Mind the pay gap
The Prime Minister has said more companies should voluntary publish their gender pay gap figures, a move Unite said would “amount to very little” in the fight to achieve wage equality. Theresa…Read more…