Last week, workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast celebrated the first anniversary of one of the most stunning success stories of industrial fightbacks in the history of the trade union…Read more…
‘Significantly improved’ offer
Unite shop stewards have agreed to suspend all-out strike action, due to start on Friday (January 24), after the bread and flour firm Hovis made a new pay offer. Ahead of the strike that has…Read more…
Deal struck over Glassmullin green
A long running dispute between residents on a West Belfast housing estate and a nearby school over a community field has come to end with the help of Unite Community. Residents kept vigil over…Read more…
‘New future’
Triumphant Harland and Wolff staff on Thursday (October 3) walked back into work at Belfast’s historic shipyard after a nine week occupation that saved the firm. The workers, who garnered…Read more…
‘Save our yard’
Belfast shipyard workers occupied the Harland and Wolff site ahead of a rally that took place today (July 30) calling on the government to save the historic shipyard from closure. In dramatic…Read more…
‘Destructive approach’
Up to a hundred compulsory redundancies are planned at Bombardier in Northern Ireland despite large numbers having their applications for voluntary redundancy rejected, Unite has highlighted. …Read more…
‘Strength in numbers’
A campaign to give a big pay boost to workers employed by social enterprise leisure services’ giant Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) in London and Belfast has been launched by Unite. Unite is…Read more…
‘Only the start’
Unite deputy convenor at Bombardier Dougie Jamison lives right beside the factory where he works – a proud bulwark of highly skilled jobs and good wages in an area of Belfast otherwise blighted by…Read more…
UNISON elects catering assistant from Northern Ireland as president
UNISON’s National Executive Council has elected Margaret McKee, a catering assistant from Belfast, as president at the union’s annual national conference in Brighton. Margaret has been a…Read more…
Belfast honours nurses
Freedom of the city accepted by UNISON delegation – on behalf of the whole health care family
The article Belfast honours nurses first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Prentis pays tribute to NI campaigners over NHS homes
Three-year campaign has helped keep many homes open in Northern Ireland, but threats remain as politicians ‘bicker’
The article Prentis pays tribute to NI campaigners over NHS homes first appeared…Read more…
Northern Ireland says NO to Austerity
#M13 Over 50,000 public service workers, including UNISON members, across Northern Ireland took 24 hour all out strike action against austerity cuts yesterday. Education, health, transport and…Read more…