With nearly all Covid restrictions lifted last month, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the pandemic had magically vanished overnight. But the latest figures show that Covid cases are on the rise…Read more…
Videos of the year – stay safe, join Unite
Every day over the festive season, we’re featuring a range of our top videos of the year that show Unite doing what it does best – advancing the jobs, pay and conditions of its members and fighting…Read more…
Videos of the year – a time like no other
Every day over the Christmas break, we’re featuring a range of our top videos of the year that show Unite doing what it does best – advancing the jobs, pay and conditions of its members and fighting…Read more…
‘They need help now’
Unite is calling for a hospitality support package to be brought forward urgently amid a skyrocketing increase in Omicron cases, which has abruptly precipitated mass cancellations in bookings….Read more…
Unite: Covid jabs should not be mandatory
As a health trade union representing over 100,000 workers in the NHS, Unite has strongly encouraged our members to be vaccinated through our “Get a jab campaign”. Despite this, Unite, believe…Read more…
Gov’t must do more to protect staff and pupils
Support staff, teachers, school leaders and families are uniting today (December 9) to urge the government to better protect pupils and staff from Covid in schools in the lead up to Christmas. With…Read more…
Extra safety measures are the right approach but still more can be done, says UNISON
Public must play their part to ease pressure on NHS
The article Extra safety measures are the right approach but still more can be done, says UNISON first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Hospitality staff subjected to abuse and death threats over mask wearing
Unite has demanded Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, acts now to ensure mandatory mask wearing for customers visiting hospitality venues across the UK, in the same way that those travelling on…Read more…
Workers must not pay for pandemic
Unite’s leader Sharon Graham said the union will continue to base claims on the RPI (retail price index) figure rather that CPI (consumer price index) because it better reflects the actual price rise…Read more…
Pandemics have their own music…
We clapped outside our doorplayed violins on the balconyclattered pots and panssymbols of resistancewhile our hearts broketo the sound of sirens. By Joy Johnson, Unite political department
The post…Read more…
‘Workers must not pay for pandemic’
Ahead of this afternoon’s Budget statement from Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, in no uncertain terms, that workers must not be made to pay the price for the…Read more…
‘We expect the government to act responsibly’
Responding to the government’s announcement that it would not press ahead with ‘plan B’ even in the face of sharply rising coronavirus cases, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham…Read more…
‘Radical rethink necessary’
The impact of the Covid crisis on working people dominated the debate on the second day of Unite’s policy conference on Tuesday (October 19). A series of motions and composites were heard on a range…Read more…
Critical care crisis
Chronic staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a staff survey carried out by Unite that…Read more…
‘Verging on total collapse’
A critical care staff shortage crisis has engulfed Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, a bombshell Unite survey has revealed. Nearly 200 Unite members working in critical care at the…Read more…
UNISON urges MPs to act amid surging school COVID-19 cases
Education unions have sent an urgent letter asking MPs to call the government to action
The article UNISON urges MPs to act amid surging school COVID-19 cases first appeared on the UNISON National…Read more…
‘We are on our own’
Paul Ainslie, a London bus driver and Unite delegate to Labour’s conference has a powerful story to tell.
Throughout the pandemic bus drivers kept on working taking staff to hospitals, to…Read more…
‘Sheer lunacy’
Unite has branded as ‘lunacy’ the announcement that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the only body able to licence Covid-19 vaccines in the UK, is set to cut 20 per…Read more…
NHS pay protest
Unite members in health attended a protest over NHS pay on Friday (July 30), joining hundreds of other health workers across London. Members of the Unite Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital branch marched…Read more…
Winding down furlough creating ‘unnecessary harm’
Unite has called on the government to extend and adapt the furlough scheme as new research shows hundreds of thousands of viable jobs could be at risk as the scheme winds down. The study from the New…Read more…