When Tan Rashid gets home after a shift the exhausted Middlesborough bus driver sits quietly in a dark room. Unite member Rashid said, “We have a high percentage of drivers who go off with…Read more…
‘Very good’ pay deal
Drivers working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink have accepted a ‘very good’ three year pay deal, Unite announced today (August 7). Unite hailed the package as ‘a great achievement’ which…Read more…
Left behind
Struggling families in the North are being locked out of job opportunities because of unreliable and unaffordable public transport, new research has shown. The study, commissioned by the…Read more…
Tram strikes off
The strikes planned in the Sheffield supertram pay dispute have been suspended, as the 200 drivers and conductors vote on a revised pay offer. Unite will be recommending acceptance of the…Read more…
Sheffield supertram dispute continues
A call for constructive pay talks was made this afternoon (July 31) in the Sheffield supertram pay dispute, as a further eight days of strike action were announced. The call came from Unite…Read more…
Driverless buses?
Plans by Stagecoach to trial the UK’s first driverless bus must prioritise jobs and safety the transport firm has been told. Current legal restrictions mean the single deck bus will only be…Read more…
Manchester Metrolink strike vote
Over 340 Unite members working for Greater Manchester’s Metrolink will start voting on whether to take industrial action over pay from today (July 20) in a dispute which could see drivers on the tram…Read more…
‘Propaganda war’
Bus bosses have been accused of waging ‘a propaganda war’ in the run-up to this weekend’s Tramlines music festival in Sheffield in the dispute over a ‘26 pence an hour’ pay offer for workers on the…Read more…
‘Wake-up call’
Unite called on Stagecoach bosses running Sheffield’s Supertram to table a revised pay offer to avoid industrial action after drivers and conductors overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute…Read more…
Toxic cabin air warning
The senior coroner in the inquest into the death of Matthew Bass, the much loved member of Unite and British Airways’ cabin crew, has taken the significant step of agreeing to write to the chief…Read more…
‘Young people deserve a break’
Young people will have one more burden lifted from them under a future Labour government, after the party yesterday (April 12) announced a new policy granting free bus travel to under 25s. The…Read more…
Dial-a-ride workers to strike
Unite members employed by Dial-a-ride will begin a 48-hour stoppage from just past midnight tomorrow (March 28) in a dispute over the withdrawal of rest days and the imposition of new rosters. …Read more…
Put passengers first plea
The government was today (January 10) slammed by an independent body over its botched handling of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise, which has seen hundreds of thousands of…Read more…
‘Held to ransom’
As the biggest fare increase in half a decade came into force this week, the TUC has found that UK commuters spend up to 5 times as much of their salary on rail fares as other Europeans. Fares…Read more…
‘Refuse and revoke’
When Transport for London (TfL) ruled it would not renew Uber’s operating licence in the capital in September, the decision shocked many – not least of which the tech firm itself, which first…Read more…
For one penny more…
Pay talks to avert more bus strikes in the north west broke up today (November 17), after the bosses offered an ‘insulting’ one penny extra an hour to the hourly rate, Unite reported. Talks were held…Read more…
Under pressure
Mental health and stress in transport and food workplaces are right at the top of our agenda. Pressure to win contracts through undercutting in the relentless “race to the bottom” translates into…Read more…
‘What our country needs’
In the first of Unite’s contributions to this year’s Labour Party conference in Brighton, Unite delegate Mike Hedges intervened in the discussions around transport. He said that, “getting our…Read more…
‘Within our grasp’
Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland seconded a transport policy motion focusing on bus services. Speaking for Unite’s quarter of a million transport members she said it was vital…Read more…
‘Barmaids in the sky’
Airline cabin crew are being subjected to record levels of abuse from intoxicated passengers, according to shocking new research conducted by Unite. A survey of 4,000 cabin crew, Unite…Read more…