The economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2017, down on 0.7% in the final quarter of 2017. More than 80% of the first quarter growth was driven by business services and finance. As the chart shows, the increased contribution here (in light grey)…Read more…
Only point of contact
Health visitors play a vital role in identifying domestic slavery victims, a community nursing organisation has said. The Institute for Health Visiting (IHV) said health visitors may be the…Read more…
Workers Memorial Day – Remembering the dead and fighting for the living
Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die in tragic “accidents”. They die because an employer decided their safety or health just wasn’t that…Read more…
Ringfence the budget
Prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) in June’s general election will be invited to see the work community nurses do on a daily basis as part of the campaign to make the case for ‘public…Read more…
McDonald’s offers fixed hours
One of the world’s largest fast food chains, McDonald’s, will now offer its 115,000-strong UK workforce – all previously on zero hours contracts – guaranteed minimum hours on fixed contracts, with 1…Read more…
‘You wouldn’t believe the pain’
In part 4 of our Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite’s Gary Fairclough, who tells of a harrowing workplace accident that took him years to recover. When Gary Fairclough…Read more…
Work till you drop
Punishing long hours’ culture in many professional kitchens is putting the mental and physical health of chefs in London at risk, a snapshot survey by Unite has revealed. Almost half (44 per…Read more…
Window makers strike
Workers at Sierra Windows in Paignton, Devon started a 48-hour strike today (April 26) in a dispute over pay and an imposed change to shift patterns. Unite called on the ‘secretive’ management…Read more…
Workers’ lives at risk
Unite is warning that workers’ lives are being placed at risk due to the cut in the number of frontline health and safety inspectors. Figures obtained by Unite, via a Freedom of Information…Read more…
Jobs come first
Labour’s Brexit plan has been unveiled during a general election campaign speech by Sir Keir Starmer. The shadow Brexit secretary said yesterday (April 25) a Labour government would axe…Read more…
‘We didn’t come to work to die’
In part 3 of UNITElive’s International Workers’ Memorial Day series, we speak to Unite shop steward Neal Hodkinson about his fight against asbestos. While accidents in the…Read more…
Insecure work is like standing for election every week. We need a new deal for working people
MPs aren’t the only ones feeling insecure in their jobs right now. If nothing changes, by the 2022 election hundreds of thousands more Brits could be stuck in insecure work, being treated like…Read more…
A quarter of a million more in insecure work by end of next Parliament?
New analysis by the TUC shows that if current trends continue, 290,000 more people could be trapped in insecure work by 2022. The figures show that by the start of 2022, 3.5 million people could be in insecure work such as zero-hours contracts, tempora…Read more…
Address to Congress by Kezia Dugdale MSP, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
Kezia Dugdale MSPLeader of the Scottish Labour Party120th STUC Annual Congress
Let me begin by paying tribute to the STUC, to Helen and to Grahame Smith, your General Secretary.
The STUC has…Read more…
Export chocolate, not jobs
Unite and the GMB and have slammed Nestle for proposing 300 job losses as it moves production of the iconic Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to Poland. The confectionary giant is making the…Read more…
Acknowledge our proposals
Pension proposals by workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – to break the logjam in their long-running pensions’ dispute have been ignored, Unite said today (April 25)….Read more…
Fight for the living
Friends and families who have lost loved ones to workplace fatalities are having to wait an agonising 3 years 4 months to secure justice , according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request made by…Read more…
Food bank Britain
As families already struggling under a generation of austerity are doubly hit by the introduction of Universal Credit, food bank use has skyrocketed and now stands at an all-time high. The…Read more…
What we want from the Busses Bill wash up
The Bus Services Bill is due to complete its passage through parliament this week, because of the election it will be agreed through wash up. It was initially due to enter Ping Pong on April 26 following its third reading in the Commons. The snap election called last week means that the bill has…Read more…
Trade Unions Place Women’s Voices Centre Stage
Annette Drylie, GMB Scotland
Chair, STUC Women’s Committee120th STUC Annual Congress
Congress, it is my honour to address you as Chair of the STUC Women’s Committee. I would like to begin…Read more…