Three motions on the issue were debated on Friday morning – including the effect on Black workers and renters
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Pay deal adds the fizz at Coca Cola
Supplies of the UK’s favourite soft drinks are safe this summer after Coca Cola finally agreed to share a greater proportion of its mammoth profits with workers at Europe’s biggest soft drinks plant. Crippling strikes were due to begin on Wednesday (June 13) but a breakthrough in negotiations means there’ll be no walk-outs this summer. […]
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Time to fight for a fair pay rise
Local government conference opens in Liverpool with a refusal ‘to be made poorer by this government’
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UNISON calls for tougher taxes on energy profits
While workers are struggling to pay their energy costs, BP has announced profits of £4 billion in the first three months of this year
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Bank’s chief economist is “living on another planet”
Denying staff a pay rise won’t help the economy
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UniteLive stories of the year – ‘From the ground up’
Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today we look back at a comment piece from Claire Peden, Unite organiser and team leader of Unite for a Workers’ Economy about their Feed the Weans campaign wins. — In September last year, hundreds of trade unionists […]
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Real terms pay continues to plummet
The real value of workers’ pay keeps on nosediving, with the latest figures showing the fastest fall in real wages since 2009 as inflation continues to outpace wage rises. The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published on Tuesday (April 18) showed that yearly growth in average pay stayed at 6.6 per […]
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‘Profiteering epidemic’
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has finally acknowledged the role that rising prices is playing in soaring inflation — but Unite warned that Bailey is still failing to recognise the depth of the profiteering crisis. Last week, Bailey warned that businesses that set prices above inflation will risk embedding higher prices into the economy. […]
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Blog: Money for everything, everywhere, just not your pay rise
Today’s budget found the cash to offer tax cuts to big businesses and the highest earners – but nothing for public service pay, again
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Blog: Which version of the UK will Jeremy Hunt choose to back?
We’ll be watching closely, and we’ll be ready to take action if the chancellor fails to fix the crisis in pay packets and public services
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How the budget could fix public services
But new UNISON research shows that public service workers are overwhelmingly pessimistic about chancellor Jeremy Hunt doing the right thing next week
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‘Through solidarity we win’
It’s no secret that Unite has made huge gains in the bus sector over the last year, winning big inflation-busting pay rises for tens of thousands of drivers and other bus workers across the UK. This month, Unite notched up another notable win when the union secured a 10 per cent pay increase for members […]
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The cost of living crisis hits home for working women
UNISON national women’s conference opens with passionate debate on wide-ranging effects of the crisis, as women become the ‘shock-absorbers’ of austerity
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Fair pay is the way to protect public services as high inflation continues
Ministers must move on wages as workers struggle
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UNISON lobbies Church of England leaders over pay
Catering staff, cleaners and caretakers are being paid less than the real living wage in church schools
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Profits ‘bonanza’ for big banks
New research by Unite has revealed that the UK banking sector is making bonanza profits on the back of Bank of England interest rates increases. In the first nine months of 2022, the big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest) recorded profits of £19.8 billion. Since the end of 2021, big banks’ bank […]
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University of Leeds strikes intensify
Pay strikes will hit the University of Leeds in February as a dispute over pay intensifies, Unite said today (February 1). The 200 non-teaching staff, members of Unite, have rejected an imposed pay deal set by the University and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) that amounts to three per cent for most workers. With the real […]
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‘We can’t afford to let the NHS sink’
Widespread public support for the latest Unite ambulance strikes was apparent from the start – as cars and lorries relentlessly honked their horns driving past a picket line in Chorley in the early hours of Monday morning, the taxi driver who dropped off your UniteLive correspondent likewise offered his solidarity. “I hope you guys win […]
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Black members’ conference confronts cost of living crisis
Delegates back call to fight for above-inflation pay rises
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Black members pass motions on disability and cost of living crisis
The second day of the UNISON national Black members’ conference, hosted in Edinburgh, passed a number of key motions affecting Black workers
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