Unite has secured a victory for hundreds of construction workers embroiled in the biggest blacklisting scandal in UK history, after the union has helped its members win more than £10m in…Read more…
Unite’s ‘tough cookies’
After the floods brought by Storm Desmond’s wrath in December devastated Carlisle, entire neighbourhoods were turned into giant building sites. And as well as wrecking more than 2,000 homes,…Read more…
Housing bill ping-pong
The government is struggling to push through its housing agenda as its Housing Bill enters into a furious game of parliamentary ping-pong between the Commons and the House of Lords. Peers…Read more…
‘Dark day’ for workers
The government’s controversial trade union Bill was granted royal assent this afternoon (May 4) – and now is officially made law. The Bill – which will now as law severely hobble the ability…Read more…
Someone on our side
Londoners will decide the future of their city in tomorrow’s (May 5) mayoral election. It’s set to be a contest between Labour MP for Tooting Sadiq Khan and Tory MP for Richmond Park and North…Read more…
Tip top result
Business secretary Sajid Javid sided with Unite as the government published yesterday (May 1) a long-awaited report on tipping practices in restaurants and hotels. In what Unite officer for…Read more…
Fish firm’s workers face the sack
The row over Grimsby-based Icelandic Seachill, accused of paying for the new ‘national living wage’ by slashing overtime rates, has been taken to the European Commission, as the workforce faces the…Read more…
Passionate speeches
Merseyside today (April 28) remembered its loved ones that have been killed and died as a result of work. International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) began in the USA in 1970 and its success…Read more…
Across boundaries and oceans
In 1916 two seminal events that would shape the future of both Northern Ireland and the Republic took place. It was the year not only of the Easter Rising but also of the Battle of the Somme – one of…Read more…
Justice for Alison
Today, Workers’ Memorial Day, as we remember those who have lost their lives at work, Unite officers and members are fighting to have a health and safety rep reinstated after she was sacked for…Read more…
Whatever it takes
“We are calling on all our branches to affiliate to Justice for Colombia, we are calling on all our branches to support their region in affiliating to Justice for Colombia,” says Tony Woodhouse,…Read more…
‘Thumbs-up’ Tory shame
Gloating Tory councillors have shamelessly posed for a ‘thumbs up photo’ right in front of a children’s centre they’ve axed to save cash. Portsmouth council leader Donna Jones, children and…Read more…
‘Stuck in the bowels of hell’
Two hero miners saved the lives of nine of their comrades earlier this month, after the group were trapped by a huge fire 1.1km underground in a Teesside potash mine. The miners, all Unite…Read more…
Steel: support at last
Unite welcomed today’s (April 21) announcement by the UK and Welsh governments to provide a support package worth hundreds of millions of pounds to potential buyers of Tata Steel UK and to take a…Read more…
As reviled as Thatcher?
Desperate David Cameron is terrified that he will be as reviled as Margaret Thatcher in the history books because of the Conservative’s bungling of the steel crisis and has ordered his…Read more…
Lords say no to govt again
In yet another defeat against the government’s trade union Bill, peers passed an amendment yesterday (April 19) reversing a ban on a method for paying union subscriptions in the public sector. …Read more…
Govt’s house of cards
First it was cuts to tax credits, then the raid on disability benefits – and now measures in the Housing Bill are facing defeat. The government’s proposed policies, all taking aim at those who are…Read more…
Tories: On the workers’ side?
The so-called National Living Wage, first announced last year, was offered up as proof that the Tory government was, in fact, on the side of working people. “We back work,” said prime minister…Read more…
The power is in our hands
Tens of thousands of protestors descended on central London on Saturday (April 16) for the People’s Assembly March to demand better jobs, health, homes and education. A large delegation of…Read more…
Austerity crisis
Food bank use has, for another year running, dramatically increased as more and more people – even those in work – bear the weight of government austerity that’s brought a crisis usually only…Read more…