Unite has discovered that workers operating on the flagship HS2 project at the Old Oak Common site, are being systematically denied the correct pay rates, resulting in them losing hundreds of pounds…Read more…
‘Festive crisp famine’ warning
A series of broken promises and a proposed pay freeze by management at haulier Eddie Stobart Ltd, could result in a festive crisp famine, Unite has warned. The dispute is a result of Eddie Stobart…Read more…
‘Bringing both sides of the community together’
Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. But outside of the unreal TV-land…Read more…
Make a difference to others this Christmas
Unite launches Christmas appeal for struggling families – and Unite AGS Steve Turner shows how we can all help. He writes:
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Contacting UNISON over the festive period
UNISONDirect hours over Christmas and the new year
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‘Vital support’
When people think of trade unionists, they don’t often think of vicars, but Unite is as ever a big and growing tent of workers who – despite holding a diversity of views — are united in their…Read more…
‘More and more desperate’
This Christmas, children across the country will be opening presents and celebrating the festive period with friends and family, likely over a large meal with all the trimmings. But for…Read more…
‘Scrooge’ Serco
Unite has vowed to leave ‘no stone’ unturned in its defence of members employed by outsourcing giant Serco, on the Ealing council parking contract, who face losing their jobs early in the new year….Read more…
A union for Christmas – and for life
At a time when environmentally sustainability is at the top of the public agenda, people across the UK are aiming to have a more thoughtful, less wasteful Christmas. The figures now are dire…Read more…
‘Left with no choice’
Argos customers are facing Christmas misery after UPS staff in Barton, Staffordshire, were forced into strike action over a ten month long pay dispute, Unite said today (December 3). Shunter…Read more…
Christmas chaos?
Unite is urging logistics firm DHL to accept ‘reasonable’ improvements to pay and redundancy packages for HGV drivers, who deliver to Sainsbury’s stores across parts of London and the South East, in…Read more…
Poultry catchers to stay at home this Christmas
Specialist poultry catchers in Suffolk have notched up a significant victory after a plan to make them work on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day has been rescinded.
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Not just for Christmas
In the run-up to Christmas, Unite and its members have celebrated many victories – in the last two weeks alone, workers at poultry producer Two Sisters, Gatwick Airport and housing charity Shelter…Read more…
The Two Ronnies Christmas Special 1982
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Triangle Christmas Market – Sunday 9 December 11-4pm by West Ham All Saints Church E15 3HX
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Christmas Party
We’d like to buy you a drink (and give you a nibble!) – so please join us for the branch Christmas party on Tuesday, December 11. If you enjoyed our summer social, you’ll love this.
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Pay not panto tickets
Unite the union, which represents hundreds of members at Bristol Waste, has described revelations that the company has spent £25,000 on pantomime tickets as “resembling “a bribe”, as the union…Read more…
Caring at Christmas
In the final instalment of our working at Christmas stories we meet Mark, an emergency nurse at a central London hospital. He works on a short stay ward which is part of an accident and…Read more…
‘Keep on organising’
While many of the more than 1m workers who work over the holiday period elect to do so, often for premium pay, some workers have no choice. In part 5 of our series on working over Christmas,…Read more…
‘A duty to our patients’
In Part 4 of our series on working over Christmas, we speak to Dr Wasim Baqir, a pharmacist. Wasim works as a national lead in pharmacy for NHS care homes but he also works on the wards at a…Read more…