This week, on the first anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members’ contributions, concerns and…Read more…
Unite’s ‘food warriors’
It is true to say that this Christmas certainly won’t be like any other – but for all the wrong reasons. We see the adverts every day. While the shiny families enjoy idealised Christmas Days, and the…Read more…
‘Social solidarity is what Unite is all about’
Big-hearted car workers belonging to the Unite the union’s Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Solihull branch have raised £50,000 for five charities in the Birmingham region, as thousands in the city face a…Read more…
‘The only way we will get through this is if we help each other’
At a time when hunger and want have soared in the UK and across globe amid the coronavirus pandemic, never has reaching out to our communities been more important. That’s why Unite has set up its…Read more…
Crisis of hunger
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a crisis of hunger, as new figures from the Trussell Trust food bank network show a surge in demand for food parcels since the pandemic began. The latest…Read more…