Plans to abolish ‘no-fault’ evictions are welcome, says union, but more needs to be done for private tenants
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Plans to abolish ‘no-fault’ evictions are welcome, says union, but more needs to be done for private tenants
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Unite has welcomed a new pledge made by Labour to restore swingeing cuts to bus services funding which have seen 3,000 routes axed under successive Tory-led governments. Announcing its pledge…Read more…
Unions publish joint claim which also calls for two lowest pay points to be deleted
The article Police staff publish 5% pay claim for England and Wales first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Workers Memorial Day is an annual opportunity to remember those whose lives have been lost at workRead more…
The purpose behind Workers’ Memorial Day has always been to “remember the dead: fight for the living” and unions are asked to focus on both areas, by considering events or memorials to remember all those killed through work but at the same time ensurin…Read more…
Baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London (formally Azzurra) at Heathrow airport have suspended strike action, due to have started tomorrow (Friday 26 April), to vote on a new pay…Read more…
Customer service assistants, employed by Sandwell council, who are members of Unite will begin industrial action on Friday, May 10, in a pay dispute over job grading. The 14 members of Unite…Read more…
Production workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater, where productivity is said to have ‘gone through the roof’, have voted for strike action over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. …Read more…
New funding must allow existing staff to develop their careers and a comprehensive and rewarding apprenticeship programme is needed to bring new recruits into the NHS
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Unite welcomed the decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which today (April 25) brings an end to the proposed merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda. The CMA said it had blocked…Read more…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is shamelessly hiding behind “commercial interests” in refusing to provide information about the asbestos scandal involving the maintenance of its Sea King helicopter…Read more…
Food bank use has skyrocketed by nearly 20 per cent over the last year, fuelled by Universal Credit delays, benefits cuts and low incomes. The largest food bank provider in the UK, the…Read more…
The Trussell Trust distributed a record 1.6 million emergency food parcels in the past year, amid renewed calls for government to end the five-week wait for Universal Credit
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Inviting foreign firms to bid on a £1bn government contract to build Royal Navy support ships abroad has turned Britain into a “laughing stock” and is a betrayal of UK ship workers, Unite warned MPs…Read more…
Twenty-six years ago this week, Stephen Lawrence, 18, was murdered in cold blood by a gang of young men who targeted him in a racist attack in south east London, stabbing him to death. While…Read more…
Low paid staff, contracted by outsourcing firm ISS, at Macclesfield District General Hospital are staging a second protest on Friday (April 26) against ISS’ plans to withhold up to a week of their…Read more…
Newham council is facing a third industrial dispute in as many weeks over the way it treats a key group of workers, Unite said today (April 24). Three gas managers working in the repairs…Read more…
New long-term authoritative research published in the British Medical Journal has revealed that workers in the tyre and rubber industry remain at significant risk of developing certain cancers due…Read more…
Lyra McKee’s death last week shocked us all. Today as her funeral takes place, we share in the collective grief and sadness at the loss of a friend of our union.
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There’s a huge amount of work to do, but I know that our union is up to the task – and that every time we build our union, we make it easier to support, defend and represent our members in the…Read more…