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Members from Unite Hospitality held fringe meetings at this week’s Sector Conferences to highlight their current campaigns, and tell members from other sectors how they can support them. The group also held a highly active stall throughout the week and explained some of the issues facing workers across the sector to delegates. On Monday (18 […]
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Unite’s ground-breaking campaign for free and safe late-night transport to be provided to workers has been adopted as a policy at the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) conference, held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ITF consists of 700 affiliated trade unions from 153 countries, representing more than 20 million working people across the world. The […]
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Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at our Get Me Home Safely Campaign, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in March and highlight the many wins the campaign has had since. — As the world today (March 8) celebrates International […]
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One of the biggest councils in the country, Glasgow City Council, has backed Unite the union’s Get Me Home Safely campaign the union announced today (Friday). Glasgow City Council is the eighth and largest local authority so far to call on employers to provide safe and free transport home for all workers past 11 pm. […]
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Unite delegate and chair of the Labour Party National Women’s Committee Ruth Hayes moved a motion on violence against women and girls on the first day of the Labour Party Conference on Sunday (September 25). Urging conference to read the motion from Labour’s Women Conference in full, Ruth highlighted how “over a decade of Tory […]
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Unite is calling on councils and employers to mark today’s (April 28) International Workers’ Memorial Day by backing the union’s Get Me Home Safely campaign. Unite wants the hundreds of councils and…Read more…
Nearly six in ten workers (58 per cent) report that their employers have never provided them with safe transport home after work, a new poll for Unite the union reveals today (March 28). The poll…Read more…
When hotel worker Caitlin Lee left for home after a late Friday night shift last year, she knew it would be another struggle to find safe transport. Not only are taxis in Glasgow hard to come by so…Read more…