Chancellor George Osborne spoke today (October 5) at the Tory Party Conference, just hours after it was announced that the government will continue with its sell-off of its remaining 12 per cent…Read more…
Hammer of working people
George Osborne continues to be ‘the snake oil salesman’ of British politics, presiding over a phoney recovery, giving the rich an inheritance tax gift, yet bringing harsh cuts to millions of workers…Read more…
Downward track
One of the sharpest recessions ever has filled the labour market with low-paid insecure employment even in normally high-skilled, high paid areas of employment, a new report has found. The huge…Read more…
Unite drives forward lifelong learning
Unite and logistics company Wincanton signed a learning agreement today (October 2) that sees the opening of a Learning Centre for staff at Lea Green, St Helens in Merseyside. This is…Read more…
Pay rise – no rise
More than a million workers earning the National Minimum Wage today (October 1) received a pay rise of 20p, with the adult rate going up to £6.70 an hour. Business secretary Sajid Javid said…Read more…
Community tattoo!
Like many of us, Ruth Rollin, a tattooist and Unite community member from Leeds has been deeply saddened by the images of Syrian refugees in the media. The body of little Aylan washed up on…Read more…
‘Very, very worried’
If the government wanted to help we’d have been the first steel plant in line for it, given the position of the company,” says Unite SSI convenor Kevin Cook. “Talk about a ‘steel summit’ is one thing…Read more…
A reminder of courage and determination
Trade unionists from across the globe gathered in Liverpool yesterday (September 26), to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the city’s historic 1995 dock workers’ dispute. Unite…Read more…
Tory’s green flag in tatters
Less than a decade ago, current prime minister David Cameron set off to visit a remote Norwegian glacier to witness first-hand the effects of global warming. On a sled to visit the site, he famously…Read more…
Steely resolve
The Redcar steelworkers were paid today, but only because the taxman fast-tracked money owed to their employers SSI iron and steel makers. And despite the possibility they won’t be paid next month,…Read more…
Return to the age of secrecy?
The MP’s expenses scandal — one of the biggest stories to break in the past decade — may have been kept a secret to this day, had it not been for the Freedom of Information Act, made into law in…Read more…
Solidarity is the only way
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we look at how divide and rule tactics de-humanises immigrants Immigrant ‘swarms’ are…Read more…
Levelling the playing field
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we discuss the findings of Unite’s survey Unite’s recent survey of black,…Read more…
They shall not prevail
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we continue with two Unite members’ experiences of racism at work What do a…Read more…
The People’s railway
Unite has welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s proposed people’s railway describing it as “an end to business as usual for failed companies in a failed system.” The new Labour leader has indicated he…Read more…
Bigger than football
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we continue with some footballers’ own stories If football is a microcosm of…Read more…
Making the change
This week we look at the work of Show Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) together with Unite in fighting racism. Today we start with how it all began. At Newcastle’s St James Park in 1995 it…Read more…
Millions say no to TTIP
Set to be one of the largest bilateral trade agreements every negotiated, TTIP – the mammoth EU-US deal currently being negotiated in secret – has also garnered mammoth media attention. The…Read more…
High cost of right to buy
More than one hundred thousand council homes across England will have to be sold to fund the Tories’ extension of right to buy, according to a new report released today (September 17) from housing…Read more…
TiSA: threat to public services
Readers of Tribune will undoubtedly be aware of the transatlantic free trade agreement between the EU and the USA, known as TTIP. You may have heard about a similar agreement (which is all but signed…Read more…