Osborne’s plans to raise council tenants’ rent to market value if their income is more than £30,000 or £40,000 in London could force hundreds of hardworking families out from London. Public…Read more…
Stressed and overworked
Health visitors, who are critical in supporting young families, received a big boost following a largely successful implementation plan that saw their numbers swell by almost 4,000 over the past five…Read more…
Something to sign up for
As part of our series on the Labour leadership election, UNITElive spoke to National Union of Students vice president Shelly Asquith, who is also a proud Unite member, on why voting in this election…Read more…
Reckless Osborne will cost us all
Tory plans to sell off nearly £2bn Royal Bank of Scotland shares could cost the taxpayer millions and be a bonus for share speculators. The shares were bought for 502 pence each to bail out…Read more…
Unite, Pride of Leeds
Unite lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) members along with friends and family helped form part of the largest turnout ever – around 40,000 – at the annual Leeds Pride festival…Read more…
Different vote, same old myths
As the last day to sign up to vote in the Labour leadership election quickly approaches next week (August 12), the anti-union media frenzy is now in full swing. It’s set to be the most…Read more…
Burnout Britain?
The summer holiday season is in full swing, and working people up and down the country are taking time off to visit friends and family, travel or simply relax. But a new report has revealed…Read more…
A Kafkaesque nightmare
Unite community member Paul Rooney, a former social care worker who gave up his job to care for his severely disabled teenaged daughter, looked through his post one day to find a council tax bill for…Read more…
Rural workers will suffer
A renewed call for better pay and conditions, as well as better health and safety standards for farmworkers was made this month by Unite executive council member Ivan Monckton, who represents…Read more…
When life beyond work ceases to exist
The number of people on zero-hours contracts, in which workers are not guaranteed any hours of work, is notoriously difficult to calculate. While the scale of the zero-hours epidemic is not…Read more…
Too old to be paid more
Following chancellor George Osborne announcing a so-called statutory “National Living Wage”, it has now been revealed that apprentices who are 25 and over may lose out on his promised wage hike…Read more…
Minority report
Two reports out today (Monday July 27) both point to the budget and austerity cuts to public services having a greater impact on black and ethnic minorities and women. Up to four million…Read more…
Labour’s first majority government
Trade unionists belonging to one of Unite’s predecessor union’s were the bedrock of a radical post war Labour government that swept to power at the 1945 General Election exactly 70…Read more…
Pregnant mums are still losing jobs
More than 50,000 women are losing their jobs every year as a direct result of maternity discrimination in the workplace, a new report reveals. The shocking figures are part of an…Read more…
Bees or bust
We hear their buzzing drone and we’re enchanted. As we enjoy the site of an amber and black striped bumble on a lavender spike we shouldn’t forget two things: that numbers have fallen and…Read more…
‘Austerity is over’ shocker
Austerity is over, the new Tory minister in charge of the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ has declared. That’s great news, coming in the wake of the end of poverty and economic sunshine breaking out over the…Read more…
The truth must out
Two years into the coalition government’s austerity programme in 2012, routine figures released by the department of work and pensions revealed a shocking phenomenon – in just one year (2011) more…Read more…
Solidarity and freedom
The fight to reinstate the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) goes on despite the election of the most extreme right wing government since Mrs Thatcher, pledged Unite agricultural workers’ leader,…Read more…
The impossible dream?
Find a job, marry, start a family, buy a home – even after rapid social and technological changes of the past century, traditional rites of passage have largely persisted to this day. But if…Read more…
Just not taking it
Residents on the Cressingham Gardens estate in Lambeth are celebrating a small victory in their three year-long campaign to save their homes from demolition after being granted a judicial review….Read more…