Today’s NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) report stands as a sharp rebuke to the government’s public sector pay policy. Though their recommendation is for pay to remain within the cap, their comments indicate dismay at the havoc the policy is wreaking on the health service. In 2011/12, the government…Read more…
Gross government incompetence
Taxpayers and workers will pay the price for gross government incompetence, after the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) announced on Monday (March 27) it would axe a multi-billion pound…Read more…
PM: change Brexit tack call
With UK manufacturers warning today (March 27) that a ‘no deal’ Brexit would be ‘simply unacceptable to an industry accounting for 45 percent of all UK exports’, Unite has…Read more…
‘Address gross injustice’ call
An agency supplying labour to Sports Direct’s warehouse in Derbyshire has yet to honour a deal it made to award back pay to workers who were illegally underpaid the minimum wage. The continued…Read more…
‘Pension robbery’ protest
A group of BMW workers from the UK will be handing in a petition and protesting outside the carmaker’s Munich headquarters in Germany tomorrow (March 29), demanding that BMW Group bosses stop their…Read more…
Pay deal result
Workers at Oxford Bus Company have agreed a settlement in their long-running dispute over pay and Christmas working, Unite said today (March 28). A pay deal for the year, starting on November…Read more…
Cutting the futures of the young
More and more people are toiling into their old age new figures show, even as the government considers pushing the age of retirement further back for today’s young people. Plans to change the…Read more…
Show EU staff NHS needs them call
The number of EU nurses registering in England has fallen by 92 per cent since the Brexit referendum while the number of European NHS nurses who have quit their jobs has increased, new figures show….Read more…
Uber lobbying inquiry call
Black cab drivers’ union, Unite, today (March 27, 2017) echoed calls for an inquiry into links between senior Conservative figures and Uber and their role in lobbying against tighter private taxi…Read more…
Navigating ‘these stormy waters’
Representatives of Unite’s 95,000 auto members gathered for an emergency Brexit conference on Saturday (March 25), just days before Theresa May triggers formal negotiations over the UK’s EU exit….Read more…
Europe’s response to Article 50: what unions want
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and fire the starting pistol on negotiations to leave the European Union. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has already adopted a statement setting out what unions here and in the res…Read more…
Protecting the car industry after Brexit: a frictionless supply chain
Today, Unite is holding a major conference in Birmingham called Securing the future of the UK auto sector. It will bring together workers, employers and experts from the British car manufacturing…Read more…
Why Thatcher’s think tank is probably right about pensions
The Centre for Policy Studies, which proudly proclaims its links to Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph, is perhaps not a natural ally of the TUC. But its latest proposals on retirement income show that on pensions, good policy proposals based on sound …Read more…
A Mother’s Day present Mums will really appreciate
With Mother’s Day approaching on Sunday, many of us will be trying to find the perfect gift for our hard-working mums or mother figures. Flowers, chocolates and perfume normally fit the bill. But if Ministers were thinking about really rewarding working mums this Mothering Sunday, then they might…Read more…
Patient safety first
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey joined biomedical scientists in Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust yesterday (March 22) on the third day of a week-long strike over patient safety. The scientists,…Read more…
Turning its back on communities
Unite has expressed anger over plans by RBS Group to cut even more branches across the UK as it renewed calls for a moritorium on branch closures. The bank, majority owned by the UK…Read more…
Pensions row ramps up
Angry workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are striking today (March 23) in their long-running pensions’ dispute, with another seven days of strikes on the cards. …Read more…
Secure ‘open skies’ call
An agreement securing current freedoms for UK airlines to fly in Europe and beyond must be reached urgently during Brexit negotiations to ease job fears and end uncertainty in the industry, Unite…Read more…
Pensions deadlock
BMW workers at the home of the Mini in Cowley will be staging a second protest tomorrow (March 24) over the carmaker’s plans to close their final salary pension scheme. Tomorrow’s protest from…Read more…
From trollies to Trident?
The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) – first formed after the 1989 Deal Barracks bomb attack over concerns that private security were not properly trained to guard MoD sites – is now under…Read more…