Unite has slammed the government for reportedly scrapping plans to introduce fair tips legislation, first promised by then-business secretary Sajid Javid nearly six years ago. After Javid’s…Read more…
Fair tips victory
Unite members working for Pizza Express have declared victory for fair tips after an internal Pizza Express committee scrapped a tips allocation plan that saw low-paid waiting staff lose up to £2000…Read more…
Tips justice at last?
Five years after the government first promised it would take action on tips theft, legislation will finally be introduced that will ban businesses from swiping tips and service charge payments from…Read more…
Gov’t tips failure continues
Unite the union, which represents thousands of workers in the hospitality industry, has said news that an MP is bringing forward a private members bill on tips, highlights the government’s failure to…Read more…
Anger as Pizza Express deducts wait staff tips
Pizza Express is facing a massive backlash from wait staff and customers after the chain restaurant has been found to again be unfairly deducting staff tips. Unite has reiterated its call for the…Read more…
New restrictions ‘will hit hospitality industry hard’
Workers in the hospitality industry are crying out for an extension of the furlough scheme and additional state support, after the government announced new restrictions on the sector which could…Read more…
Pressured to take part
In the latest instance of ongoing tips abuses, waiters at Pizza Express have claimed they were forced by bosses to hand over to charity the cash they’d worked hard to earn. Waiters at the…Read more…
Tipping the balance
Unite’s fair tips campaign has roared on all summer and been hailed by the Guardian as ‘impressive’. There have been key victories, but the work’s not over yet. It’s rare for a union campaign to…Read more…
Pizza Express victory!
The restaurant chain has just announced that it is going to drop the 8% admin feeRead more…
The tipping point?
Champagne corks have been popping over Pizza Express’s decision to scrap the eight per cent administration fee on tips with Unite hailing a victory in its ‘fair tips’ campaign. The union has…Read more…
TV tips debate
Watch Dave Turnbull, Unite National Officer for food and drink talking about fair tips on ITV’s This Morning. If you haven’t already please sign the petition here
The post TV tips…Read more…
Meals of justice
Congratulations to Unite organiser Ewa Jasiewicz and the Unite activists who staged the first ‘Meal of Justice’ at Pizza Express recently. As part of the campaign to get Pizza Express to…Read more…
Tip top tunes?
American actress, jazz singer and author Molly Ringwald, who is performing at Pizza Express in London this week, has been asked to back Unite’s campaign against the company’s controversial ‘tipping’…Read more…
Pizza protest
It was hotter than an American Hottest pizza last night (August 10) as Unite turned up the heat in it’s campaign to get Pizza Express to give staff their full customer tips – and to stop…Read more…
Pizza Express, stop thieving staff tips!
To: Richard Hodgson, CEO Pizza Express 2,969
of 3,000signaturesPizza Express is cheating staff of their fair tips. The 8% ‘admin fee’ it deducts from credit card tips should be scrapped with 100% of tips going to staff– no deductions, no excuses.Why is this important?Pizza Express rightly…Read more…
Pizza Express, stop pinching staff tips!
Unite are calling for the 8% admin fee on tips to be scrapped.Read more…