Food down a snip, but profits still up

Dec 6, 2023By UNITElive

Although news just in may be whispering of a wafer-thin helping of food inflation slowdown – for most of us in the real world your tasty turkey dinner is still going to be a bit of a Scrooge-like stretch.

Yesterday (December 5), news agency Reuters reported that food inflation was down slightly, slowing to 9.1 per cent in November according to Kantar; that the cost of the Christmas dinner up was up 1.3 per cent year-on-year; and that Sainsbury’s has the largest market share gain in over a decade.

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Dec 6, 2023UNITElive

Workers still paying the price

Aug 3, 2023By UNITElive

The Bank of England (BoE) announced for the first time today (August 3) that interest rates will stay higher for longer, in an effort, it says to battle soaring price rises.

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Aug 3, 2023UNITElive

Is an NHS pay rise affordable?

Dec 20, 2022By UNITElive

As Unite paramedics join thousands more health staff on strike on Wednesday (December 21), no one can deny that NHS staff have long deserved a decent pay rise. Their real-terms pay, after all, has fallen off a cliff edge under successive Conservative governments over the last 12 years – since 2010, the TUC estimates that […]

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Dec 20, 2022UNITElive

Renationalise energy and no more budgets for the rich

Sep 26, 2022By UNITElive

Yesterday, (September 25) Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham told delegates at Unite’s Scottish policy conference, that ScottishPower’s ‘eyewatering’ £7bn in dividends to its Spanish owners, reveals the need to renationalise energy and proves that a budget benefitting the rich will not work. In the last year a Unite investigation has revealed that 13 per of […]

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Sep 26, 2022UNITElive

Workers to pay ‘for massive energy company profits’

Sep 8, 2022By UNITElive

Unite has slammed prime minister Liz Truss’ plan on energy bills, saying the proposal will make working people pay for energy company profits – and so for a crisis not of their own making. Truss on Thursday (September 8) announced a much-anticipated plan to tackle skyrocketing energy bills by freezing bills at £2,500 a year […]

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Sep 8, 2022UNITElive

The ‘new bold trade unionism’

Jul 29, 2022By UNITElive

GS Sharon Graham’s new take on disputes has certainly led to some unique wins – here paying dividends to low waged bank staff While millions of households suffer under the worst cost of living crisis in generations, there’s one group of businesses that are certainly not feeling the pinch – British banks. Over the last […]

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Jul 29, 2022UNITElive

Ten giant pay leaps – in just one month

Jun 15, 2022By UNITElive

Unite is streets ahead, winning giant pay rises for our members – as Chris Jarvis of Left Forward Forward wrote on the site’s webpage yesterday (June 14). He writes, Trade unions have already shown…Read more…

Jun 15, 2022UNITElive

‘Solidarity has paid off’

Mar 11, 2022By UNITElive

When Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told British workers last month that they shouldn’t ask for a pay rise, he perhaps didn’t get the memo that Unite members are standing firm to protect…Read more…

Mar 11, 2022UNITElive

‘Catastrophe for millions of people’

Feb 3, 2022By UNITElive

The cost of living crisis facing households across the UK is set to intensify drastically after the energy regulator Ofgem today (February 3) confirmed a unprecedented 54 per cent increase in the…Read more…

Feb 3, 2022UNITElive

Profit-hungry Royal Mail plans to axe 900 jobs

Jan 27, 2022By UNITElive

You’d think that the Royal Mail would want to celebrate and value its’ staff. After all, didn’t they pull out all the stops for the nation – and earned huge profits for the shareholders? They most…Read more…

Jan 27, 2022UNITElive

Sainsbury’s wage win

Jan 12, 2022By UNITElive

Unite has welcomed a decision by Sainsbury’s to pay its low paid staff at least £10 an hour – but reminded the company the increase was still too low to keep up with the rising cost of living.

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Jan 12, 2022UNITElive

One hundred days of winning for you

Dec 6, 2021By UNITElive

Sharon Graham – elected as Unite general secretary on August 27 has, by December 6, her first 100 days in office, won literally millions of pounds in extra pay and conditions for members.

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Dec 6, 2021UNITElive

Winning for workers

Dec 6, 2021By UNITElive

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, who has now served her first 100 days in office, has introduced radical changes to the way the union operates, focusing its entire resources on winning for…Read more…

Dec 6, 2021UNITElive

The ‘deserts’ of debt advice

Nov 8, 2021By UNITElive

The union’s warning coincides with the beginning of this year’s Talk Money Week. Proposals from the Money and Pension Advice Service (MaPS) to slash key debt advice funding will add to what is…Read more…

Nov 8, 2021UNITElive

Workers to pay price for pandemic

Oct 27, 2021By UNITElive

Sadly Unite’s fears that the government would make workers pay for the pandemic were borne out in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget statement today (Wednesday October 27).

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Oct 27, 2021UNITElive

‘Climate change is a class issue’

Sep 9, 2021By UNITElive

As extreme weather events increase with ferocious force; as air pollution claims exponentially more lives; and as crop yields wither in once-abundant regions around the world, there’s a growing…Read more…

Sep 9, 2021UNITElive

‘Really significant victory’

May 12, 2021By UNITElive

Following revelations from unions including Unite, that logistics giant XPO boosted executive pay around the same time that UK government furlough payments were made to the firm, shareholders…Read more…

May 12, 2021UNITElive

Workers suffering mental health ‘epidemic’

Apr 27, 2021By UNITElive

Ahead of tomorrow’s International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28) workers are suffering a mental health ‘epidemic’, a UK and Ireland-wide survey of Unite workplace representatives has…Read more…

Apr 27, 2021UNITElive

End ‘bully boy’ fire and rehire fight launched

Apr 26, 2021By UNITElive

Unite today (Monday April 26) launched a major national campaign to end the growing practice of fire and rehire.

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Apr 26, 2021UNITElive

‘Leeching the public purse’

Apr 15, 2021By UNITElive

Serco civil enforcement officers in Ealing have voted to strike over the targeting of union activists in the latest in a series of industrial disputes to hit the outsourcer, Unite said today…Read more…

Apr 15, 2021UNITElive