Patients are being left to die in pain because NHS treatment is being rationed, a shocking new report has found. Palliative care patients are being left for hours without treatment due to…Read more…
One in ten
Once thought to be a passing trend born of the financial crisis 10 years ago, zero hours contracts — where workers don’t know when or even if they’ll be working from one day to the next — now look…Read more…
‘Outlaw zero hours now’
Exploitative zero-hour contracts have rocketed in the north east of England in recent years, new TUC research reveals. Two thirds of all the new jobs created in the region since 2011 have been…Read more…
‘Stuck in a twilight zone’
Earlier this week, Unite helped uncover an all-too common practice in the restaurant industry at exclusive restaurant chain the Ivy Collection – management charging customers “service charges” that…Read more…
The health visitor vanishes?
After the government launched a concerted drive to recruit more health visitors – whose numbers had over the years become dangerously low – a disaster was averted, as targets set in 2011 to train…Read more…
Tipping the balance
As the government drags its feet over the publication of its consultation on tipping practices – now a full eight months overdue – restaurants continue to get away with brazen theft of staff tips….Read more…
Stop the exploiters
What with the budget shambles, the ongoing concerns over the future of the UK motor industry and the never ending Brexit saga, it was very easy to miss a very significant announcement this week by…Read more…
Masking sickness at work?
Fear for their jobs has prompted British workers to take the fewest number of sick days since records began – only 137m working days last year were lost to sickness, equivalent to just over four days…Read more…
Stop the decline spiral
In the wake of the sharpest and most sustained drop in the price of oil in decades, the UK oil industry is staring into an abyss as more than a hundred thousand jobs have gone in the last two years…Read more…
Under pressure
Today on International Women’s Day (March 8), much is made of the overall pay gap between men and women in the UK – now standing stubbornly high at 19 per cent. But what’s not as often talked…Read more…
And the fight goes on…
It’s been more than a century since International Women’s Day was first proposed, but the pressing need for a day for women to voice their demands in their struggle for equality has hardly…Read more…
‘This union fears no one’
Crowding into Unite’s Holborn office conference room for the migrant workers’ conference on February 22, I was struck by the energy and positive vibes just beaming off every single soul in there –…Read more…
Save our NHS
“Sickness doesn’t have an age,” Unite member Jake Kraweckyj told UNITElive at this weekend’s Save Our NHS march on Saturday (March 4), which drew an estimated quarter of a million people from across…Read more…
Dashing hopes of young must end
Today (Monday March 6) is the first day of National Apprenticeship Week, when industry and government indulges in back slapping and tells up how well they are doing at increasing apprenticeship…Read more…
‘Denying people’s disabilities’
The government is standing by proposals to cut £3.7bn in disability benefits, even as it plans to implement a £1bn tax break that will predominately benefit the very wealthy. Downing Street…Read more…
‘End insecure working’ call
The number of people on zero hours contracts – who are not guaranteed set hours of work and have very few rights and protections – has spiked to a record level of 910,000. But the figures show…Read more…
Work till you drop
Pushing the retirement age up in the coming years would mean men in certain areas of the country could die before claiming their state pension. A Commons Work and Pensions Committee debating…Read more…
A dark day for rights
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey vowed that Unite would not allow the Trade Union Act to stop the union from fully supporting the workers it represents, after many of the provisions of the Act…Read more…
For sanity’s sake
Benefit sanctions must be stopped to avert a national mental health crisis, doctors have warned. Doctors from Britain’s leading mental health organisations also called for an immediate review…Read more…
Stop cutting our NHS plea
A major demonstration in support of the NHS will see tens of thousands of people take to the streets in London on March 4 calling on the government to end health service funding cuts, privatisation…Read more…