Bungled Tory energy polices are putting off investors and threatening the prospect of a ‘golden age’ of clean and affordable energy, the industry’s largest trade association has warned. Energy…Read more…
Match words with action
Despite rights for pregnant women being enshrined in law, a shocking number of new and expecting mothers experience workplace discrimination, including being illegally sacked – and the problem is…Read more…
Post-Brexit wage pain
Even as jobs become more plentiful, new figures show that workers’ wage pain is set to continue as inflation bites and the UK’s post-Brexit economy begins to take shape. Compared to July of…Read more…
Portrait of disparity and despair
With her clouded eyes brimming with tears, Mary wails inconsolably. She reaches out her arms toward me, begging, “Please, please, take me home.” I anxiously glance around the living room where Mary…Read more…
‘Being you is not a crime’
Neo Nazis have plastered lampposts in Hull with far right stickers, in the latest in a number of racist incidents across Britain since the EU referendum. The stickers, which despite being…Read more…
Career success?
Wealthy white male graduates are still more likely to have gained entry to the professional classes more than three years after leaving university, even when grades and other factors are taken into…Read more…
Sports Direct: A ‘rare feat’
An investment group worth £14.5 trillion has taken the unusual step of joining Unite and MPs in calling for an independent review and “fundamental reform” at rogue employer Sports Direct. …Read more…
NHS: staff slam Hunt plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s own staff are worried that his deeply unpopular plans for a “seven-day” NHS service bring dangerous “risks”, leaked department of health documents reveal. The…Read more…
Landlords: Raking in the rent
Private landlords pocketed £9.3bn in housing benefit last year, a shocking new report has revealed – double the amount claimed 10 years ago. Analysis by the National Housing Federation (NHF),…Read more…
‘Things have got to change’
London’s hospitality workers protested with outrage over the ‘unethical’ working conditions of the capital’s hotel industry yesterday evening, following the launch of Unite’s hard-hitting report…Read more…
NHS: Room at the top?
Race discrimination is alive and kicking in Britain’s workplaces two new reports have found, with black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) workers suffering underemployment across the economy as well…Read more…
Housing crisis in Ramsgate
The Unite Community ‘Housing Crisis Roadshow’ reached the seaside town of Ramsgate yesterday, where local people said unaffordable house prices and a shortage of social housing has left them unable…Read more…
Knocking down the barriers
Migrant workers at Sports Direct (SD) in Shirebrook have praised Unite for assisting them with learning English. The union has established eight English for Speakers of a Second Language…Read more…
Steel: Still no gov’t strategy
Steel giant Tata’s Port Talbot steelworks is back in profit – but workers’ jobs still hang in the balance. Just six months ago the plant – Tata’s biggest UK steelworks – was making a loss of…Read more…
Tax cheat curb plans are useless
New plans to hit firms that sell tax avoidance schemes with heavy fines are useless – because the Tories have stripped HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of its resources for catching cheats, leading…Read more…
The shame of London hotels
Global hotel chains stand accused of making London one of the most ‘unethical’ tourist destinations in the world by its own workforce in a hard hitting report launched today (Monday August 22) by…Read more…
Taking housing fight to south east
Although the housing crisis has hit the entire UK to varying degrees, it has become an entrenched and alarming problem in the South East – earlier this year it was revealed that there is not one…Read more…
Sexual harassment: Not banter, not funny
Nearly two in three young women, and predominantly those in zero hours’ contracts or agency work, are sexually harassed at work, a TUC survey has revealed. The TUC’s research, in partnership…Read more…
Timetable now call
The government’s continued incompetence in devising a long-term defence strategy has been again exposed after last month the ministry of defence (MoD) refused to set out a timetable for building its…Read more…
Unite: May ‘must re-double efforts’
If you happen to be a black or Asian ethnic minority (BAEM) person in the UK today, you’ll inhabit a vastly different world than the rest of the population – you’re much more likely to be jobless, to…Read more…