The production of the Royal Air Force’s new fleet of surveillance aircraft could be outsourced to the US, a move Unite says would be a further betrayal of UK defence workers by the Tories. The…Read more…
Check records call
An estimated 1,000 former Ministry of Defence (MoD) employees, who could have been exposed to asbestos while maintaining Sea King helicopters, are now caught in a Catch 22 situation about getting…Read more…
Asbestos threat
All current as well as about 1,000 former Ministry of Defence (MoD) workers who could have been exposed to asbestos maintaining or repairing Sea King helicopters must be offered checks for exposure,…Read more…
‘Outrageous attack on pay’
Unite has launched legal action on behalf of a group of low paid workers employed at Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishments in the Gosport area who have had their working year unilaterally cut by…Read more…
Defence jobs threat
Proposals by defence giant Babcock to close its site in Colchester, Essex, with the threat of 55 job losses, has ‘exposed’ the company’s shortcomings, Unite said today (August 6). Unite called…Read more…
Bring tank repairs back in house call
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) should take the DSG (Defence Support Group) ‘tanks’ repair’ contract with defence giant Babcock back ‘in house’, Unite said today (July 31). The union’s call…Read more…
‘Unbelievable’
Privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters has for now been suspended after Serco, the outsourcing firm that lost out on the private contract to Capita, launched legal proceedings…Read more…
‘Fantastic victory’
Unite praised the determined campaigning of its defence representatives after the defence secretary Gavin Williamson on Tuesday (July 17) confirmed plans to develop a next generation fighter aircraft…Read more…
‘No social value’
Unite has called on the government to withdraw its decision to award the contract to privatise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence workers, to troubled outsourcing company Capita,…Read more…
‘Staggering’ complacency
The government today (June 21) refused to explain why it handed outsourcing firm Capita a contract to run Ministry of Defence (MoD) fire and rescue services despite the company being rated 10 out 10…Read more…
10 out of 10
Capita has been handed a contract for military fire and rescue services by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) despite a financial health assessment giving the highest level of risk to the outsourcing…Read more…
‘Wrong-headed’
Unite has described the announcement today (June 18) that troubled outsourcing giant Capita has been awarded the contract for the privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence…Read more…
‘Welcome intervention’
The influential House of Commons Defence select committee has called for ‘a pause’ over the possible privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters. Unite has welcomed the committee’s…Read more…
‘Outsourcing folly’
Ministers have been urged to have a serious rethink about the outsourcing of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters in the wake of the Carillion collapse. The call has come from Unite over…Read more…
MoD ‘cost-cutting scandal’
The cost-cutting ‘scandal’ for employees working at Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishments in the south of England has been compounded by the awarding of a new contract to ESS. The low paid…Read more…
‘Put a line in the sand’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has written to Gavin Williamson MP, the new secretary of state for defence, requesting he intervenes to prevent a multi-million company robbing the wages of…Read more…
‘Wage robbery’
Low-paid workers employed by a contractor at the MoD’s Fort Blockhouse in Gosport will stage a wage robbery protest tomorrow (November 7) as a result of their employer cutting their working year from…Read more…
‘Strike ahoy’
The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, Queen Elizabeth, may not be able to leave its home port of Portsmouth, if a national pay dispute involving tug boat crew steams ahead. Unite today…Read more…
‘Attack on democratic rights’
Unite the union has expressed outrage over plans to use members of the armed forces to undermine a strike at the Coulport and Faslane naval bases. Yesterday (April 5) the union was informed…Read more…
From trollies to Trident?
The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) – first formed after the 1989 Deal Barracks bomb attack over concerns that private security were not properly trained to guard MoD sites – is now under…Read more…