As we go to press, angry workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment Defence – are preparing to demonstrate outside the constituency office of defence secretary Michael Fallon in…Read more…
Settle pensions now call
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has been warned that there will be further delays to the government’s flagship Trident programme, unless the long-running pensions dispute at AWE plc – the…Read more…
Pressure on MoD mounting
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – are full of confidence as they gear up for their second 48-hour strike this month in their pensions’ dispute on Monday (January 30),…Read more…
Broken promises
Workers at AWE plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – will be staging a second 24-hour strike on Tuesday (December 6) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension…Read more…
Pensions betrayal
Workers at AWE Plc – the Atomic Weapons Establishment – will stage a 24-hour strike on Monday (November 14) in the dispute over the threat to close the defined benefit pension scheme and…Read more…
Keep defence work at home
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has serious questions to answer about the UK’s secretive procurement policy – the latest controversy being the decision to buy nine maritime patrol aircraft from…Read more…
Cost-cutting ‘death traps’
Dangerous cost cutting has turned more than 80 military training grounds into “death traps” Unite has warned, after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) allowed ‘look out’ firing range wardens to be…Read more…
Defend our spend
Unite convened a special conference this week in Preston, which saw the launch of the union’s ‘Defend our Spend’ campaign that aims to press the government to keep UK defence spending in Britain….Read more…
Laying waste to defence
More questions than answers arose yesterday (November 24), after the government announced the publication of its Strategic Defence Review, which outlined defence spending priorities for the next five…Read more…