Today we honour workers at Nissan, Unite members, who got to work making life-saving PPE at the height of the first wave of the virus. Find out more in our feature below from May.
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Today we honour workers at Nissan, Unite members, who got to work making life-saving PPE at the height of the first wave of the virus. Find out more in our feature below from May.
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Unite members seeking employment opportunities in the post-Brexit, post-Covid economy will be strongly considering moving into engineering and manufacturing, as well as health and education, new…Read more…
Representatives of Unite, along with Jack Dromey MP, today (Thursday 4 March) met with Kwasi Kwarteng MP, the secretary of state for business enterprise and industrial strategy, about the future of…Read more…
This government’s mismanagement of the crisis has led to the UK suffering the biggest economic hit in Europe, not to mention a tragically high loss of life. Much-trailed in the media, we’ll soon find…Read more…
Ahead of the Budget on Wednesday (March 3), Unite is reiterating its calls to chancellor Rishi Sunak to take urgent and decisive action to protect health, jobs and incomes. The Budget will be the…Read more…
Serious questions continue to be asked into allegations that the owner of Lunar Automotive, previously based in Preston, has not paid his workforce to the tune of about £170,000 while they have been…Read more…
‘Shovel ready’ manufacturing job schemes to boost jobs, stave off rising unemployment and tackle the climate emergency are staring Boris Johnson and the cabinet in the face, Unite said today…Read more…
More than 650 Rolls-Royce jobs have been safeguarded from compulsory redundancies for at least five years after Unite secured agreements at the company’s plants in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire and Ansty,…Read more…
The UK’s top manufacturing leaders have joined forces today (February 11) to urge Boris Johnson to put rebuilding the sector at the heart of his roadmap, set to be announced on February 22,…Read more…
Merseyside glassmakers employed by Pilkington are being balloted for strike action over the company’s failure to deliver a promised 2.5 per cent pay rise, Unite said today (January 29). More than 100…Read more…
The merger, which won approval from both sets of shareholders yesterday (Monday January 4), will create the world’s fourth biggest carmaker. Vauxhall employs 3,000 staff in the UK.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged sectors across the British economy, with not a single industry spared. Manufacturing took a massive hit, with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost since March and many…Read more…
Members of the Unite and GMB unions employed at International Paint in Gateshead have announced strike action and an overtime ban beginning early next year in a dispute over pay and national…Read more…
Strikes over pay at Leeds-based bus manufacturer Optare, now in their ninth week, will continue into January, Unite said today (December 14). More than 100 Optare workers, whose hourly rates are…Read more…
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spending Review, let us cast our minds back to Boris Johnson’s infamous promise to “level up” Britain. As with all of Johnson’s slogans, it is a promise of great…Read more…
The country’s leading manufacturing union, Unite, has today (November 13) urged the prime minister to appoint a cabinet minister to bring urgently needed coordination to the production and…Read more…
The closure of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs was ‘cynically fast tracked’ using the global pandemic as an…Read more…
Today Friday November 6, alongside our Scottish regional secretary Pat Rafferty, I am co-hosting the latest in a series of regional meetings to discuss Unite’s Manufacturing Matters industrial…Read more…
There’s no doubt that the outbreak of Covid-19 has changed many things about the way we work, whether that be in the factory or the field, in the office or in the restaurant. Unions and employers…Read more…
Workers at the historic Rolls-Royce factory at Barnoldswick in Lancashire will embark on three weeks of targeted strike action beginning next month, as part of the Unite-led campaign to preserve the…Read more…