As Moy Park profits touch £90 million Unite exposes how poverty pay at Randalstown has left workers borrowing to ‘make ends meet’. A Unite survey of striking Moy Park workers has revealed that eight…Read more…
Moy Park shamed amid strike
Unite are workers now on their fourth day of strike action at Randalstown plant. Unite has determined that Moy Park is paying its workers there £5,000 a year less than workers at other company sites….Read more…
Moy Park workers down tools
Unite members at the Moy Park site on the Moneynick Road, Randalstown have established pickets at the feed mill in a strike to win pay parity with other Northern Ireland sites. Strike action at the…Read more…
Farm worker shortage can be solved with better pay
Difficulties finding seasonal agricultural workers could solved by improving notoriously bad pay and conditions in the sector, Unite has said in response to complaints by UK fruit farmers.
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UniteLive’s stories of the year – nature and mental health
Every day for the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ this year, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2021. Today, we look back at a feature from Mental Health Awareness Week back in…Read more…
Gene edited food rules to be relaxed
Unite, the UK’s leading union, is urging caution over moves by both the UK and the EU to relax rules governing the commercial use of gene editing in agriculture. Last week, the European Commission…Read more…
Deeply disturbing
Agriculture has long been considered the most dangerous sector in the UK, with fatality rates 18 times the national average.
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Unite challenges plans to abolish NI agricultural wages board
Agriculture Minister Poots, a member of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, has been challenged by Unite over compliance with the Ministerial Code of Conduct over his decision to deliver on longstanding UFU…Read more…
Solidarity with Indian farmers
The Punjab farmers dispute is the biggest dispute and the largest protest in the world and other states in India have joined in. There are a lot of people in the Punjabi community posting this on…Read more…
Video of the year – Our proud rural history
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…
Poultry factory ‘disregarded Covid-19 concerns’
Bernard Matthews bosses ‘disregarded coronavirus concerns’ at its Great Witchingham factory in Norfolk, where 75 staff have tested positive, Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, said today…Read more…
A ‘terrible, retrograde step for UK farming’
What is more important than the safety of the food we put into our mouths each day? UK farming is renowned for its stringent standards, but now, with yesterday’s (October 12) passing of the…Read more…
Burston memories
There’s no doubt that the annual Burston rally, held on the first Sunday of September in the village of Burston, Norfolk is one of the favourite events of the trade union calendar.
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Rural jobs at risk
The urgent need for an extension of the furlough scheme across all sectors has become more apparent as new research shows hundreds of thousands of jobs in rural communities are now at risk once the…Read more…
Meat plant deep clean after new Covid cluster found
After 35 staff tested positive for the virus the pork meat processing plant will now close for a deep clean this weekend. It’s understood testing and tracing will take place among the 500 employees…Read more…
‘Fighting back against tyranny’
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunctional, fragile, exploitative, wholly…Read more…
‘They’re left totally in the dark’
Ahead of this year’s online Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival event this weekend (July 17-19), UniteLIVE earlier this week explored the issue of rural poverty – and what we can do to fight it. Investment…Read more…
‘Stay upbeat and determined’
Every year we celebrate our union’s history at rural trade union festivals all around the country – the women Chainmakers, Tolpuddle, Burston and others. We come together in lanes, fields and tents…Read more…
‘We will overcome’
This year’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival 2020 starts Friday, July 17 and runs through till Sunday July 19. The festival is for many the highlight of the trade union year, and has special resonance for…Read more…
The struggles of rural poverty
Every year, or at least every normal year, the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival takes place in the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, where trade unionists from across the UK gather to commemorate…Read more…