An Isle of Man airport worker, unfairly dismissed from his job, has been unanimously vindicated by an employment tribunal – more than two years after his death. Unite hailed the decision in…Read more…
‘New dawn’ for Scunthorpe
The hard work and sacrifices of Tata Steel’s long products workers were lauded today (June 1), during a handover ceremony in Scunthorpe to the devision’s new owners, Greybull Capital. …Read more…
Who’s bankrolling the Tory Party?
Greedy Conservatives have received more donations this year than all the other political parties combined, new figures from the Electoral Commission show. Of the almost £12m reported to the…Read more…
‘Ticking time bomb’ for NHS
Nurses form the backbone of the NHS – they’re often the first person you have contact with in the health service when you’re born and the last member of staff who attends to you when you die. …Read more…
Solid support for UK steel
Hundreds of Unite steelworkers from across the UK joined their colleagues from steel unions GMB and Community in a march in London today (May 25) to press on with their fight to save the industry….Read more…
Cancel all sell-offs call
Tory efforts to privatise Whitehall back office functions to save £500m a year have instead cost taxpayers an extra £4m – and are riddled with problems that will be expensive to fix, the National…Read more…
Where racism fears to tread
One evening more than 20 years ago, Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop was putting petrol in his car at a local garage, when four teenage boys across the street began shouting racist abuse at…Read more…
Overcoming austerity together
Volunteers from the County Durham Socialist Clothing Bank, which was set up with the assistance of Durham Unite Community in October 2014, have been presented with the Durham County Council…Read more…
TTIP victory
In a major victory for Unite and other campaigners, prime minister David Cameron caved in to public demands to exempt the NHS from provisions in the massive, controversial EU-US trade deal known as…Read more…
Cuts threaten equalities
Unite has warned against further budget cuts and redundancies at the crisis hit Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in a letter to MP Maria Miller. The EHRC, set up as in independent…Read more…
No pain, no gain?
The shocking sexism of the last century dramatized in the popular television show Mad Men may not be such a thing of the past after all. Just ask receptionist Nicola Thorp, who last week was…Read more…
Job vacancies plummet
Job vacancies have plummeted by 12 per cent since the start of the year, with a nine per cent drop in April alone, a report from the jobs website Indeed has found. Indeed blamed the looming EU…Read more…
Pay rise? What pay rise?
Workers can expect their pay packets to stagnate until at least 2020 unless the government intervenes to help raise productivity across the country, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and…Read more…
‘Dehumanising’ trial extended
Hardworking families are now being targeted by the government’s vicious benefit sanctions regime, a major new study has found. As well as finding that vulnerable unemployed people are being…Read more…
Vital bus to be cut
Government cuts to the NHS have led to the axing of an essential hospital shuttle bus service for sick and elderly patients and their families and friends. The 15-seat, 22-mile service that…Read more…
‘Backwards vision’ Wales can’t afford
UKIP’s move into Welsh politics was facilitated by fear-mongering and empty promises “in areas that feel abandoned”, according to the campaign group, Hope Not Hate. The right wing party made…Read more…
Shotton spirit
Unite steel reps from Shotton rejoiced in the community spirit that’s kept the steel town optimistic, even as the local steelworks faces uncertainty in the shadow of crisis. Schoolchildren…Read more…
Maths of the impossible
The government’s convoluted maths outlining NHS spending is beginning to unravel, as fresh revelations show the health service achieved only £1bn of its £22bn in planned efficiency savings scheduled…Read more…
No justice, no peace
One chapter closed in the Royal Courts of Justice today (May 11) but another opened as the long fight for blacklisted workers continues. Although the case was settled – Unite helped secure…Read more…
Pushed out for being pregnant
Two years ago at Sports Direct’s infamous warehouse in Derbyshire, where working conditions have been described as ‘Victorian’ a woman gave birth in a toilet at work. That this is something that…Read more…