For many career cabin crew members and passengers alike, British Airways has been seen over the years as the gold standard of service. That’s why passengers pay premium ticket prices – for…Read more…
“Worst job ever”
As British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew take 48-hour strike action over poverty pay commencing today (January 10), UNITElive speaks to former crew members who tell the real story of the conditions…Read more…
‘Surviving on Pot Noodles’
As BA Mixed Fleet cabin crew begin their 48-hour strike today (January 10) over poverty pay, UNITElive speaks to Jorge*, a former crew member who explains the struggles he faced in a job that he said…Read more…
Crisis, what crisis?
When is a humanitarian crisis not a humanitarian crisis? Apparently when the health secretary and prime minister choose to reject the analysis of crisis care professionals. On Friday January…Read more…
‘Skimming profits’ from workers’ pockets
Although nearly 700 firms have been fined a total £1.4m for paying staff below the minimum wage since 2013, MPs and Unite said today (January 6) that the penalties are not enough of a deterrent to…Read more…
Confidence vote for young
Defence firm BAE Systems is now offering a record number of high quality, highly paid apprenticeships and last week committed to offering hundreds more this year. At the moment, the…Read more…
A ‘fair slice of the pie’?
Greedy FTSE 100 bosses made more money during the first two and half days of 2017 than most people earn all year, new research has found. Fat Cat directors on a rate of more than £1,000 an…Read more…
Cold and hungry this Christmas
Nearly half of hard up families who use food banks are at risk of going cold this Christmas, a charity warned yesterday (December 21). The Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest foodbank network,…Read more…
Hidden horrors of gang working
Two gangmasters have agreed to pay more than £1m to trafficked Lithuanian poultry farm workers, in the first case involving modern slavery to be brought against a British company. The payment…Read more…
Tap pump and your pint is ready…
To most people the phase “pay at the pump” is associated with the necessary evil of petrol stations, where motorists use their bank cards at the pump to pay for their fuel. But now the phrase…Read more…
Working holiday
While most people will spend time with their friends and family over the Christmas season, nearly a million workers will have to work. Among these are faith workers, many of whom do not have…Read more…
Women pay for austerity
While almost every group outside those on the top end of the income distribution have suffered immeasurably under nearly a decade of austerity, it is women who are footing the largest bill. …Read more…
Poor students frozen out
Unite community members from Durham University held a festive campus demonstration on Tuesday (November 13), to protest against accommodation costs and price increases that are leaving poorer…Read more…
Saved – bin workers’ tips
There are jobs that are important – which everyone recognises – and they rightly get the pay and social esteem they deserve. Then there are workers whom none of us could live without, but…Read more…
Christmas pain
Families up and down the country will be desperately struggling at the worst time of the year as thousands will feel the full force of the government’s new benefit cap which many in Manchester were…Read more…
Brexit battle
Labour will fight for a Brexit which delivers “strong relations” with the EU and preserves the UK’s ability to trade in goods and services with the continent. In a major speech in London, Keir…Read more…
Sacked for grieving
There’s nothing more difficult than losing a family member. Grieving takes time – time for which most bosses will give their workers off from work. But not so for Shaun Bate of Liverpool,…Read more…
Surgery performed with plasters
Desperate ministers considering hiking council tax in order to ease the social care crisis have been told their plan will not work by Tory party colleagues, because of “out of control” funding…Read more…
Wot, no Tories?
Dozens of Labour MPs came out to support Unite’s foodbank Christmas appeal in conjunction with the Mirror’s Real Britain and the Trussell Trust on Wednesday (December 7) just outside Parliament….Read more…
‘We must help each other’
Unable to work, Karen’s only lifeline has been Employment Support Allowance (ESA), the disability and illness benefit which allowed her to get by. But her life suddenly turned upside down when her…Read more…