Unite, representing over 70,000 bus workers, has warned that the government’s new national bus strategy, published today (Monday March 15) will go nowhere near reversing a decade’s worth of cuts to…Read more…
Sunak Budget ‘falls short’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget today (March 3) fell short of what was needed to rebuild the economy and protect people’s jobs, health and incomes, Unite warned.
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Don’t ignore tremendous job opportunities call
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…
‘Yet more cronyism and chaos from this Tory government’
Yet more evidence has emerged of government’s dubious use of public funds amid the pandemic, with new research from the main government spending watching dog revealing that PPE suppliers which had…Read more…
MPs support embattled Barnoldswick workers
The government must put conditions on support for Rolls-Royce or risk jobs, says Grahame Morris MP
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‘Time to stop government’s economic rollercoaster’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s extension of the furlough scheme has come too late for a massive number of people who are now out of work, as the latest figures show more than 300,000 redundancies were made…Read more…
Vaccine breakthrough?
Hopes of a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel were running high after a new breakthrough on a coronavirus vaccine was announced this week, but Unite has urged caution. US pharmaceutical giant…Read more…
Fat cats cashing in on Covid
While the pandemic has claimed tens of thousands of lives and destroyed the livelihoods of many thousands more, some large companies have cashed in on a Covid-19 business bonanza. Still, these fat…Read more…
Short time working – join the debate
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…
Use ‘cash mountain’ for staff call
Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) needs to dip into its cash mountain to protect airport jobs during the pandemic, after its boss boasted that it had reserves for the next 15 months ‘even if we had no…Read more…
‘Always running to keep up’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak was accused of ‘yet another last-minute move’ after he announced a new package of financial support in his latest economic statement today (October 22), just over one week…Read more…
‘This is not going away anytime soon’
The government faces mounting pressure from professional footballer Marcus Rashford, now with the backing of the Labour party, to extend free school meals into the Christmas holidays and beyond. Amid…Read more…
‘Tiers’ of woe
When the government first announced its new three-tier system of lockdowns earlier this week, it was ostensibly meant to bring some clarity to a local lockdown system that had been marked by chaos…Read more…
‘Prime’ time to take on Amazon
Online retail giant Amazon has been handed millions in government contracts over the years – including £23m since the pandemic started – but shamelessly presses on with an extractive and exploitative…Read more…
A ‘terrible, retrograde step for UK farming’
What is more important than the safety of the food we put into our mouths each day? UK farming is renowned for its stringent standards, but now, with yesterday’s (October 12) passing of the…Read more…
‘We simply don’t have time’
Unite has vowed to escalate its campaign to introduce stricter safety measures for London buses after it emerged that Unite member Kofi Opoku, who worked for Metrobus and was based at the Croydon…Read more…
Heathrow’s staff pay cuts ‘owes more to boardroom greed than this virus’
Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive payments to directors and shareholders, Unite…Read more…
‘A poverty of ambition’
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compared with the vast sums that France and…Read more…
Bad day for the finance sector
In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.
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Stop the ‘no deal car crash’
Ministers need to put their foot on the accelerator to get a deal with the EU that safeguards the UK automotive industry – employing about 800,000 workers directly and over two million in the wider…Read more…