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…
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…
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…
‘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…
Sparks fly
London’s Crossrail project will experience major disruption this week as strike action is set to go ahead because of a refusal by Balfour Beatty to pay industry standard project completion payments….Read more…
‘Furious and determined’
Workers at a fork lift truck engineering company in Bolton are on strike today (January 8) in protest over a paltry pay offer which amounts to a real terms pay cut. 82 per cent of workers at…Read more…
New cars guarantee call
Unite called on PSA Group to provide investment guarantees on new models for Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant today (January 8) as workers were informed the carmaker was seeking 250 additional…Read more…
Read all about it!
As we begin a new year, UNITElive takes a look back at what you were reading last year. Below are the 10 most popular UNITElive stories of 2017 in reverse order. Thanks for reading! 10….Read more…
‘We won this’
McDonald’s workers who went on strike for the first time in the firm’s UK history celebrated last Thursday (January 4) after winning their biggest pay rise in more than a decade. The victory…Read more…