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Members of Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, employed at aerospace company Honeywell, will begin strike action tomorrow (September 8) in a dispute over pay. Around Unite 20 members including production and assembly workers recorded a 78.6 per cent vote in favour of strike action on a 77.8 per cent turnout at Honeywell. The first day […]
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Unite members working at Langford Lodge, the successful Crumlin-based aeropspace and defence company in Northern Ireland, have voted overwhelmingly for strike action on the issue of pay and an equal…Read more…
Over 3,000 workers employed by Airbus at its factories in Broughton in North Wales and Filton in Gloucestershire have accepted an improved pay offer bringing a long-running dispute to a close. The…Read more…
Aerospace and shipbuilding – two high skilled UK engineering industries, have long been synonymous with quality and excellence. Nations across the globe have, for many years, sought out our…Read more…
Workers at Gloucester’s Hurricane Road GE Aviation factory will be striking every Friday until their call for a fair wage is honoured, Unite said today (March 29). Multinational GE Aviation has been…Read more…
More than 60 Radius Aerospace job losses in Shrewsbury, the first of which could occur on the day furlough ends, are a ‘hammer blow’ for staff, Unite said today (August 19). Radius Aerospace, which…Read more…
Strikes at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies have been called off after a deal was reached to end ‘fire and rehire’ threats that would have resulted in its Leicester staff losing up to £3,000 a…Read more…
Leicester workers at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies will strike over ‘penury-inducing’ fire and rehire cuts that will cost staff up to £3,000 a year, Unite said today (March 9). Around 200…Read more…
‘Shovel ready’ manufacturing job schemes to boost jobs, stave off rising unemployment and tackle the climate emergency are staring Boris Johnson and the cabinet in the face, Unite said today…Read more…
More than 650 Rolls-Royce jobs have been safeguarded from compulsory redundancies for at least five years after Unite secured agreements at the company’s plants in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire and Ansty,…Read more…
Striking workers and the local community will come together on Saturday (December 5) to hold a car rally in support of the Rolls-Royce workers at Barnoldswick who have been on strike since last month…Read more…
Workers at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies are being balloted for strike action over the company’s ‘opportunistic’ attempt to attack pay rates by as much as £3,000 a year, Unite said today…Read more…
Rolls Royce’s announcement that it will close its factory in Barnoldswick from this Friday (November 25) until after Christmas, while offshoring work around the globe, has been described as an act of…Read more…
Unite has cautiously welcomed this week’s defence spending announcement – but warned that it must be used to create and support jobs and communities in the UK amid a national employment crisis. On…Read more…
Workers at Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick took their first day of strike action on Friday (November 6). The Unite members are protesting plans by the company, announced in August, to cut 350 jobs at the…Read more…
Rolls-Royce was urged this evening (November 5) to make full use of the chancellor’s extension of the furlough scheme until the end of March to safeguard jobs at what is one of the jewels of British…Read more…
The news that 140 jobs at Magellan Aerospace’s operation in Bournemouth will be lost when the site closes next February is ‘a devastating blow’ to the Dorset economy, Unite said today (Tuesday 6…Read more…
It might not be business as usual for the Labour Party conference this year – but at lunch-time (September 21) Labour Connected treated online viewers to a full debate about the future of employment…Read more…
Unite’s manufacturing members sent a loud and clear message today (September 9) that the government must step in and extend the furlough scheme or else risk a tsunami of job losses. Dozens of workers…Read more…
With Spain becoming the latest country to extend its pay protection scheme “for as long as it takes” – following Germany, the Netherlands and France – the UK government continues to look on aimlessly…Read more…