Austerity harms every one of us but it is poorer children who bear the greatest brunt of the government’s funding cuts to public services – the UN published a damning report last year condemning…Read more…
Ferry strikes go on
Travellers using the Woolwich Ferry face two-days of disruption later this month, as new strikes are announced in the long-running dispute over a bullying culture, and health and safety issues….Read more…
Are dads missing out?
A policy to help men take parental leave is failing because new fathers cannot afford to take time off with their children, campaigners have warned. The two-year-old policy allows parents to…Read more…
‘No credible link’
Radical action must be taken to overhaul Britain’s system of corporate governance, a committee of MPs has recommended in a report published today (April 5). Among its many recommendations, the…Read more…
‘Dangerous and disturbing’
Domestic abuse victims are being failed by the system, as new figures show the number of charges has dropped significantly even as the number of cases reported has risen – with critics saying that…Read more…
Stressed and sick
Over-stretched paramedics are taking tens of thousands of days off a year because of stress, as NHS ambulance services struggle to cope with rising numbers of emergency calls. The number of…Read more…
‘Biggest threat’ to UK auto boom
Brexit is the “biggest threat in a generation” to the UK’s booming car industry, auto manufacturers have warned. Car makers said yesterday that the £72bn-a-year industry, which exports more…Read more…
A life without limits
They call autism the hidden disability and for some it is even hidden from themselves. Unite workplace rep Ceri Wright, from Wales, was one of those people. The 36-year-old began to suspect…Read more…
‘Worst experience of my life’
Unite Community members took to the streets outside job centres across Britain in droves today (March 30) as part of Unite Community’s third annual national demo against benefits sanctions. …Read more…
All for just a fiver
NHS staff will see yet another year of falling income as the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommended yesterday (March 28) that health workers get only a 1 per cent pay rise next year – well below projected…Read more…
‘Address gross injustice’ call
An agency supplying labour to Sports Direct’s warehouse in Derbyshire has yet to honour a deal it made to award back pay to workers who were illegally underpaid the minimum wage. The continued…Read more…
Cutting the futures of the young
More and more people are toiling into their old age new figures show, even as the government considers pushing the age of retirement further back for today’s young people. Plans to change the…Read more…
Navigating ‘these stormy waters’
Representatives of Unite’s 95,000 auto members gathered for an emergency Brexit conference on Saturday (March 25), just days before Theresa May triggers formal negotiations over the UK’s EU exit….Read more…
Unite hails cab victory
Makers of the iconic London black cab, the London Taxi Company (LTC), launched a new state-of-the-art plant today (March 22) in the West Midlands to much fanfare in what’s been dubbed “one of the…Read more…
‘Too little too late’
Extra funding for suicide prevention is “too little too late” and will not prevent people dying unnecessarily, an influential parliamentary committee has warned. In a damning report the health…Read more…
‘Come clean on STPs’
New figures uncovered today (March 21) by the Press Association (PA) have sparked outrage, as it was revealed that controversial sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) to reorganise the NHS…Read more…
Don’t ‘rip off’ our youth call
Just days before National Apprenticeship Week – designed by the government “to celebrate apprenticeships and the positive impact they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy” – an…Read more…
Don’t tolerate racism
More than a third of the UK’s Black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) population have witnessed or been subject to racist abuse in the seven months since the referendum vote, a TUC poll has found….Read more…
BP/Ineos talks spark jobs fears
Fears over hundreds of jobs and pensions were stoked last night (March 16), as it unexpectedly emerged that oil giant BP has been in talks with the petrochemicals firm Ineos – a company with a…Read more…
‘End iniquitous practises’ plea
Lorry drivers across Europe and the UK have spoken out about exploitative working conditions and wage cutting in the industry, with some being forced to live in their cabs for months on end. A…Read more…