Do you vote? Perhaps you feel that marking your X won’t make any difference. It may be you are one of nearly a million people who have gone missing since the way we register to vote was…Read more…
Brexit: who benefits?
David Cameron has been touring European cities negotiating for a so called reformed European Union and doesn’t it make you feel ashamed? The number one on his negotiating agenda is an…Read more…
All that is rotten and rancid
‘Tweet in haste, repent at leisure.’ When he tapped out his boast – #Google tax bill is a victory for the action we’ve taken – that fateful Saturday morning last month little did…Read more…
‘Human tragedy’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey shares his thoughts after going undercover with The Mirror in a Qatar labour camp, where they find labourers working to get the city ready for the 2022 World Cup…Read more…
Business Growth Service scrapped
There was a genuine sense of shock in parts of the business and manufacturing community that the Business Growth Service (BGS), which includes the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) and the Growth…Read more…
‘Respect Jeremy’s mandate’
When Ed Miliband won the leadership by just over 1 per cent the media had a field day – the wrong brother who had been backed by the unions won by just a fraction in a run off. MPs who…Read more…
Act of sheer brutality
Thirty years ago this Sunday (January 24) Rupert Murdoch made his move to Wapping – sacking 5,500 print workers employed on his newspapers overnight. It was an act of sheer brutality…Read more…
Ministers: act to save our steel plea
The UK government’s failure to act swiftly and decisively to support the British industry is leaving it on the verge of wipe out. Tata Steel’s latest announcement to axe a further 1,050 jobs takes…Read more…
‘Tyrants fall at every foe’
Unity was at the heart of Unite general secretary Len McCluskey’s speech to Unite Scottish delegates at the first ever Scottish policy conference held in Glasgow on January 16 and 17. Len said…Read more…
A radical new beginning
A new year always brings with it a sense of optimism and renewed hope and I’m determined 2016 should be no different. Yes, 2015 landed us with five years of Tory rule as David Cameron won a…Read more…
Brave new digital world
Phrases such as ‘Industry 4.0′, ‘Big Data’ and ‘The Internet Of Things’ are becoming common currency as the predictions of a new digital world and a new world of work in…Read more…
Only God and the bed manager
The consultant was clear – you need to be on an IV drip getting antibiotics in your local A and E within the hour because of complications with chemotherapy treatment. The patient, my partner,…Read more…
Take action together
Unite’s Decent Work for All campaign is about dignity at work. It’s about receiving a wage you can live on with guaranteed hours each week in a job that is safe and secure. Given these aims,…Read more…
Take us seriously Mr Cameron
Dear David Cameron, As a 14 year old in state education, I’m often surrounded by a wide diversity of young people all from an array of different backgrounds both financially and culturally….Read more…
Humanity
Packing up her school books Laughing with her friend It only took a moment For her school days to come to an end “We’re only kids in school” Her voice was pained but clear Bodies charred and…Read more…
A vital vote
This week Labour MPs are likely to have to cast what will be one of the most important parliamentary votes of their career when the Prime Minister brings his proposal for Britain to join the bombing…Read more…
Coming home to roost
For five years under the Coalition government manufacturing faced a tough time with our automotive industry providing the growth in the economy due to strong exports, which was also supported by our…Read more…
Osborne forced to u-turn
Osborne went to Parliament to attempt to undo the damage his last budget did to his political fortunes. Time will tell if he has managed it. Tax credit cuts that would have hit 3.3m low…Read more…
Who do you trust?
Tory ministers made the extraordinary decision to make their post-election priority an attack on trade union freedoms. We will not allow decades of economic and social progress that the trade…Read more…
High price of failing to help
This government must now decide which it prefers – its party’s ideology or serious action to save UK manufacturing, says Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, as he addressed the Save our Steel…Read more…