Coming up to Pride season, you’d be forgiven for thinking that being young and LGBT has never been more acceptable. Young LGBT role models in the media? Check. Music and fashion icons pushing the…Read more…
Justice at last for Shaun
An Isle of Man airport worker, unfairly dismissed from his job, has been unanimously vindicated by an employment tribunal – more than two years after his death. Unite hailed the decision in…Read more…
Lesson planning: The good, the bad and the ugly
Emma Parker is a newly qualified primary school teacher based in Durham and an ATL district secretary. As a supply teacher, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to lesson…Read more…
‘New dawn’ for Scunthorpe
The hard work and sacrifices of Tata Steel’s long products workers were lauded today (June 1), during a handover ceremony in Scunthorpe to the devision’s new owners, Greybull Capital. …Read more…
Drivers’ move to ESL sparks strike
The row over Argos’ plans to transfer 96 drivers in Leicestershire to controversial haulier Eddie Stobart Ltd (ESL) has now sparked two sets of strike action next week, involving more than 400…Read more…
The cost of Brexit for working people: Lost wages, lost jobs and lost rights
So far, much of the referendum campaigns have passed people by. Macroeconomic statistics and theoretical arguments have little relevance to their lives. So today we’re publishing new research underlining the real cost to workers. And we’ve taken a straightforward approach. As our new posters…Read more…
Government has nowhere left to hide on saving our steel
We haven’t seen the story make its way into the British media yet, but Italian media reported on Friday that the European Commission had issued ‘letters of comfort’ to the Italian government making it clear that state aid to the struggling Ilva steelworks in Taranto in Southern…Read more…
Workers’ rights in global supply chains debated at the ILO: fireworks predicted
The question of how to better protect workers in global supply chains is dominating discussions at this year’s ILO conference in Geneva. The 105th conference session of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) – the UN agency that sets international labour standards – opened today. The ILO…Read more…
Why the new Brazilian regime is illegitimate
I’ve written before about how developments in Brazil are bad for working people, but the situation is getting worse, and with the Rio Olympics less than 10 weeks away, the world’s gaze…Read more…
10 top Brexiteers explain why they’re a danger to our rights at work
From paid holidays to pregnancy rights, and from safety standards to protections from discrimination. Every right that’s guaranteed by European law is a right that trade unions fought for, to improve the lives of working people. Together they form a vital layer of protection to stop our own…Read more…
EU referendum campaign: hearing from women at last
Over the last week, a new group of voters has risen to some sort of prominence in the EU referendum campaign, despite previously being pretty much ignored in the coverage of the increasingly febrile…Read more…
Sad day for UK manufacturing
Unite has warned of a double blow to traditional UK manufacturing as workers prepare to leave Imperial Tobacco’s iconic Horizon factory in Nottingham for the last time today (May 27). The…Read more…
Worried and frustrated
Strike action on North Sea oil platforms moved a step closer today as talks over pay, proposed cuts and changes to working conditions by the Wood Group broke down. Wood Group is proposing pay…Read more…
Stop North Sea race to the bottom
The North Sea oil workforce suffered another blow this week (May 25) after Shell announced it would cut 475 jobs in the UK and Ireland. The latest announcement is part of a wider raft of Shell…Read more…
Who’s bankrolling the Tory Party?
Greedy Conservatives have received more donations this year than all the other political parties combined, new figures from the Electoral Commission show. Of the almost £12m reported to the…Read more…
Probation companies tell staff not to report sentence breaches, finds watchdog
A new report by the probation watchdog (HMI Probation) has found that the new private Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) are telling staff not to take action against offenders who breach sentence terms, due to the risk of being fined. The findin…Read more…
GDP figures show both investment and profits in negative territory: the first time for six years
Behind today’s headline GDP figures are signs of corporate stress, with both investment and profits showing negative growth on the year – the last time this happened was in 2010Q1, at the end of the global recession. Headline figures confirm the ongoing slowdown. GDP growth was unrevised at…Read more…
‘Ticking time bomb’ for NHS
Nurses form the backbone of the NHS – they’re often the first person you have contact with in the health service when you’re born and the last member of staff who attends to you when you die. …Read more…
Let women be heard
Women’s voices are being drowned out of the EU referendum debate and must be heard, senior Labour women have said. The call, made on the same day as the TUC published a report highlighting the…Read more…
Solid support for UK steel
Hundreds of Unite steelworkers from across the UK joined their colleagues from steel unions GMB and Community in a march in London today (May 25) to press on with their fight to save the industry….Read more…