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Unite construction sector activists were busy on Friday (6 June) distributing the latest Building Worker journal to workers going to work at a central London site. The union activists were handing out copies near Oxford Circus, and Unite national officer Declan Murphy said, “We were out early in the West End this morning, with branch […]
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Today (Thur 13 Feb) Unite Construction and Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council (BWTUC) got together at Battersea Power Station to celebrate the immense union role at the construction site. The quality and sheer scale of the work is obvious when seeing the riverside project. Converting the former power station into a massive housing project […]
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Unite Live – Shorter working week workshop (400 words) Sign up now for “four-day week” training Unite is at the forefront of the campaign for a shorter working week, and a new pilot workshop from Unite Education, in conjunction with the Organising Department, will help reps understand the issues and explore ways that this can […]
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Heart Union week is back next month – and we want to hear your stories about how Unite branches have been recruiting new members and spreading the word. This year Heart Unions week runs from 10-16 February 2025 and is a chance to join with Unite activists across the UK in celebrating unions and all […]
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Unite has been handing out the latest BuildingWorker to construction workers on their way to work in Islington. Activists were up early at Angel tube station to hand out the Autumn edition and talk to workers about the benefits of joining Unite. Darren Goldstone is a convenor at a construction site in London, and said; […]
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Hospitality workers across the east of England are being invited to wake up and smell the coffee as the region launched a new Unite Hospitality branch. The Unite Hospitality East Anglia Branch was launched last month and drew in lots of new members whilst also holding branch elections. The new branch team are raring to […]
The post Serving up solidarity in East Anglia appeared first on Unite Live.
Unite recently ran a course for young members to give them the tools to become effective reps and organise in their workplaces. The Young Member Education Course took place over a week in Birmingham in June and aimed to equip young members and reps with a knowledge of Unite’s structures, break down some of the […]
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Members of the Unite Faith Workers’ Branch (FWB) have been regularly attending the Greenbelt Festival over recent years with a stand promoting the benefits of trade union membership to festival goers. The Faith Workers’ Branch (FWB) was established about 30 years ago in order for amalgamating unions to give a defined identity to faith workers, […]
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Unite Education in the London and Eastern region recently set up a training day for reps focusing on organising. Over 40 Unite reps took part in the “Organising to Win” event, which was held at Unite’s Moreland Street office on May 18. Mark Boothroyd, chair of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital branch (pictured below), opened […]
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Belated report from my speech at day one of UNISON National Community Conference earlier this month. I was moving an amendment to motion 1. “Conference, Vice President, John Gray, moving amendment 1.1 on behalf of the SGE. May I start by congratulatin…Read more…
Unite campaigners held a day of action this week on Thursday (November 2) in the UK’s major steel towns to raise public support for Unite’s plan to save the steel industry. The actions, held in Sheffield, Port Talbot, and Scunthorpe drew scores of people from their local communities. They sent a unified message to the […]
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Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at how Unite has made a comeback at Gatwick Airport, with a number of wins for members at the airport this year thanks to a bold new strategy of coordinated action. — The COVID […]
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A number of motions on Saturday dealt with how the self organised group encourage recruitment, get members active and produce results for young members
The article Young members’ conference turns to recruitment and organising first appeared on the UNISON National site.
I’ve written a book, Workers Can Win! A Guide to Organising At Work, which Pluto are publishing soon.
There’s lots more information about it on a new website, workers-can-win.info, including Chapter 1 which you can read for free, and details of ho…Read more…
The cost of living crisis presents a new set of challenges that require a new set of solutions
The article Delegates discuss improving the union’s organising approach first appeared on the…Read more…
As Unite’s sixth policy conference opens today (October 18) in Liverpool, UNITElive can report a number of inflation-busting pay victories for Unite members – which shows the union is heading in a…Read more…
Unite, Britain’s leading union, has produced a blueprint to protect homeworkers from attacks on their pay and conditions from unscrupulous employers. The union has vowed to support its members…Read more…
Unite has submitted the first formal complaint to the CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) against Amazon for abuse of its market position in relation to price gouging at the height of the Covid…Read more…
A new poll reveals strong support for Unite’s campaign to secure trade union rights for directly employed Amazon workers and for workers in the gig economy, while firmly opposing Amazon’s anti-trade…Read more…
Conference hears how recruitment and retention have boomed in the pandemic, and listens to examples of how it was done
The article ‘Unions are very 2021’ – so let’s keep growing first appeared on…Read more…