Unite delegates from across UK manufacturing companies will meet in Brighton (November 15) to discuss the future of UK manufacturing along with other key issues such as the chaos created by the…Read more…
Ford pay deal win
About 9,000 Ford production workers have been offered an inflation-busting pay deal which guarantees at least a 6.5 per cent rise in a two-year package. Unite, which represents the vast…Read more…
‘Alarm bells ringing’
With alarm bells ringing over consumer confidence and falling car sales, Theresa May and her Conservative government’s continuing uncertainty on Brexit is harming jobs and investment, Unite warned…Read more…
‘Massive impact’
Unite has called for urgent assurances over investment and jobs after Vauxhall announced today (October 16) that the car maker — bought out by Peugeot owners PSA Group earlier this year — will cut…Read more…
‘From crisis to crisis’
The Tories are responsible for a recent deluge of gloomy economic indicators and are too bogged down in internecine conflict to come up with a long term plan to stabilise the economy, Unite has…Read more…
Brexit deal ‘vital’
Toyota reportedly plans to build the next generation Auris at its Burnaston site in Derbyshire – but only if the UK secures a transitional deal in Brexit negotiations. Two sources familiar…Read more…
Get into gear
More than a third of car-buyers are open to purchasing an electric vehicle a new survey has revealed, as the automotive industry prepares to switch to battery operated motors. With the…Read more…
Unveiled
The basic design for the new Mini Electric car, which will be built in the UK, has been unveiled by BMW. Unite hailed the moment as “an exciting development on the road towards the widespread…Read more…
Offshoring fears
Unite is deeply alarmed that Deeside based Witter Towbars appears intent on closing its manufacturing site in Deeside, north Wales and offshoring the work to Romania. Unite was informed that…Read more…
Battery plant sale
Unite said it would be seeking guarantees over the pay, terms and conditions of its members at Nissan’s Sunderland battery manufacturing business after the carmaker announced its sale as part of…Read more…
National debate call
Following the government’s announcement today (July 26) on plans to ban all new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke believes there needs to be a national…Read more…
‘Totally deserved boost’
Unite hailed the skills and efficiency of BMW’s UK workforce as the car maker today (Tuesday July 25) announced that the next generation electric Mini will be built in the UK – at Cowley,…Read more…
Radical recruitment
In positive news for workers and communities, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will create 5,000 new high-tech jobs. Unite welcomed the news, saying that investment in the skills necessary to manufacture the…Read more…
Tories’ ‘hit and miss’ plans
Unite has blasted the Tories’ “ad hoc” “hit and miss” industrial strategy, after details of the government’s deal with Nissan emerged. The Times obtained a four page letter from Nissan…Read more…
BMW: Get ‘heads out of sand’ plea
Unite members at BMW’s Swindon Mini plant assembled in droves outside the carmaker’s site this afternoon (April 5) to protest the threatened closure of their final salary pension scheme, which could…Read more…
‘Biggest threat’ to UK auto boom
Brexit is the “biggest threat in a generation” to the UK’s booming car industry, auto manufacturers have warned. Car makers said yesterday that the £72bn-a-year industry, which exports more…Read more…
‘Extraordinary vote in favour’
BMW workers making engines and the iconic Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars have overwhelmingly backed industrial action over plans to close their final salary pension scheme the country’s largest union…Read more…
Navigating ‘these stormy waters’
Representatives of Unite’s 95,000 auto members gathered for an emergency Brexit conference on Saturday (March 25), just days before Theresa May triggers formal negotiations over the UK’s EU exit….Read more…
‘Astonishingly good’ figures
The latest record UK car production figures strongly reinforce the case that prime minister Theresa May needs to negotiate access to the European single market for the industry and membership of the…Read more…
Vauxhall update meeting
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will be updating Unite shop stewards at Vauxhall’s Luton plant on the current situation of the automaker’s sale to PSA when he visits the plant tomorrow (March…Read more…