And action and support for our courageous BA ‘Mixed Fleet’ members are not limited to Heathrow. Pictured are Unite members at Manchester Airport taking part in the fight for pay fairness. …Read more…
Health visitor jobs threat recedes
The threat to axe up to 60 health visitors in Nottinghamshire appears to have receded, after intervention by Unite. In November, Unite, which embraces the Community Practitioners’ and Health…Read more…
‘Another nail in the coffin’
More questions about the future of the Post Office were raised today (January 10) as Unite condemned the latest round of job losses and plans to franchise more high street post offices. Unite,…Read more…
‘Courageous step’
Protesting against low pay injustice are Unite’s BA ‘mixed fleet’ members as they start their 48-hour strike over poverty pay levels at the UK’s national carrier. Unite members are pictured at this…Read more…
“Worst job ever”
As British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew take 48-hour strike action over poverty pay commencing today (January 10), UNITElive speaks to former crew members who tell the real story of the conditions…Read more…
‘Surviving on Pot Noodles’
As BA Mixed Fleet cabin crew begin their 48-hour strike today (January 10) over poverty pay, UNITElive speaks to Jorge*, a former crew member who explains the struggles he faced in a job that he said…Read more…
Staff can’t afford to be sick
It might have been a dark, wintry, early start for Unite’s BA ‘mixed fleet’ members but their spirits were undeterred as they started their 48-hour strike today (January 10) over poverty pay levels…Read more…
We won’t be misled on the #SouthernStrike
Further strike action on Southern Rail take place this week, and the disruption this will cause for passengers is regrettable. But we won’t be misled by the industry on why the strikes are taking place. The extension of driver only operations by Southern Rail is at the heart of the dispute between…Read more…
Crisis, what crisis?
When is a humanitarian crisis not a humanitarian crisis? Apparently when the health secretary and prime minister choose to reject the analysis of crisis care professionals. On Friday January…Read more…
Nuclear pensions ‘raid’
Energy minister Jesse Norman should step up to the plate and meet the unions over the proposed £600 million ‘raid’ on the pensions of 16,000 nuclear industry workers – otherwise, industrial action…Read more…
Unite BA membership surge
Unite revealed today (January 9) that over 800 cabin crew from British Airways’ ‘mixed fleet’ had joined Unite since the start of the dispute over poverty pay, taking the union’s membership to over…Read more…
Why liberal approaches to migration won’t work
While he was a member of the coalition government, Vince Cable was one of the main proponents of a liberal immigration policy, in particular arguing for greater openness to Indian migration as a necessary and even beneficial component of an EU-India tr…Read more…
Household debt is higher than in 2008, is history repeating?
The latest TUC figures on household debt show that consumer credit is still filling the gap left by anaemic wage growth. Data from the Bank of England shows that total consumer credit (that is excluding both mortgages and student loans) grew by 10.8% in November 2016 compared with a year before….Read more…
Public sector employment under Labour, the Coalition and the current government
As we get used to writing “2017” on our letters, one of the fundamentals of UK politics hasn’t changed since (at least) 2010: Labour isn’t trusted on the economy. This seems to be as stubborn a public perception as belief in Conservative economic incompetence was for 15 years after the 1992 “Black…Read more…
‘Skimming profits’ from workers’ pockets
Although nearly 700 firms have been fined a total £1.4m for paying staff below the minimum wage since 2013, MPs and Unite said today (January 6) that the penalties are not enough of a deterrent to…Read more…
Confidence vote for young
Defence firm BAE Systems is now offering a record number of high quality, highly paid apprenticeships and last week committed to offering hundreds more this year. At the moment, the…Read more…
A ‘fair slice of the pie’?
Greedy FTSE 100 bosses made more money during the first two and half days of 2017 than most people earn all year, new research has found. Fat Cat directors on a rate of more than £1,000 an…Read more…
‘Cause for concern’
Today’s (Thursday January 5) announcement that the Royal Mail has started a consultation process on the future of its pension plan is ‘a matter of concern’, Unite said. The Royal Mail said it…Read more…
BA: New strike dates
Unite cabin crew members working for British Airways ‘mixed fleet’ have announced a 48-hour strike starting Tuesday January 10, after the airline refused to extend the mandate of the strike vote to…Read more…
Three key messages from Sir Ivan Rogers’ resignation
The headlines yesterday and today focus on “muddled thinking” as the key phrase to stand out from the leaked resignation e-mail of the civil service’s top man in Brussels, Sir Ivan Rogers. But in fact, that’s only the third most important part of the story around the shock…Read more…