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In what some have called the ‘winter of discontent’, a wave of strike action is engulfing the UK right now amid an unprecedented cost of living crisis. Speaking to Sky News this week, Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab explained explains why tens of thousands of Unite members are taking a stand. Watch in the […]
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Reacting to the Ofgem’s newly published price review on Wednesday (November 30) Unite has slammed the regulator’s failure to rein in rampant profiteering by energy distributors such as UK Power Networks. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Ofgem have utterly failed to protect the public from rapacious energy profiteers. This price review will allow distributors […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has written to the Ofgem CEO, Jonathan Brearley , and Chair, Martin Cave, to demand that the Regulator clamp down on excessive profiteering by energy distributors. ‘Unite investigates’ – the union’s research and investigation arm – has established that last year the major energy suppliers, distributors, and generators made £15.8 […]
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It looks like shoppers in the north of England face empty Morrisons supermarket shelves over the holiday season – as the offer of a real terms pay cut has prompted hundreds of drivers employed by Wincanton PLC on the Morrisons contract, to begin voting on strike action. The supermarket chain across the north now faces […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham gave an inspiring speech at TUC conference on Wednesday (October 19), as she moved a motion on rebuilding industrial power. Below is Sharon’s speech in full. Friends, I bring with me solidarity from over 400 Unite picket lines that have lined the streets and cities throughout our nations — from […]
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Unite delegate Ruth Hayes told TUC conference that industrial action was the key to tackling the cost of living crisis on Tuesday (October 18). Speaking in support of a composite on the current crisis, Ruth explained how it is “profits – not our wages – which are fuelling the cost of living crisis”. She highlighted […]
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Unite slammed prime minister Liz Truss’ speech at the Conservative Party conference today (October 5) over Truss’ failure to stand up for workers seeking wage rises amid a crippling cost of living crisis. Instead of supporting these workers, tens of thousands of whom are taking industrial action over pay, Truss twice attacked trade unions in […]
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Unite delegate Professor Cecile Wright made a vital intervention in a debate on the climate crisis on Tuesday (September 27) of the Labour Party conference. Cecile told conference that the climate crisis was inextricably linked with the current energy crisis, noting that “the Tories have produced a rigged market in the production and supply of […]
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Yesterday, (September 25) Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham told delegates at Unite’s Scottish policy conference, that ScottishPower’s ‘eyewatering’ £7bn in dividends to its Spanish owners, reveals the need to renationalise energy and proves that a budget benefitting the rich will not work. In the last year a Unite investigation has revealed that 13 per of […]
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Unite’s executive head of operations Gail Cartmail highlighted how Unite is fighting back against bad employers and the government’s attack on workers on the second day of the Labour Party conference on Monday (September 26). She moved a motion in debate on growing challenges in our economy, which called on Labour to take effective measures […]
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As Labour conference began on Sunday (September 25) Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said the party must be far more bold to make the ‘clear blue water ‘ that now exists between them and the Truss government count. Graham, who spoke at Unite’s Scottish Policy conference on Sunday, also told Unite members in Scotland that […]
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Unite has slammed the government for reportedly considering lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses, after the plan was leaked to the Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday (September 14) night. The FT reported that chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, himself a former financial analyst for investment banks, is seeking to scrap the cap on bonuses — first […]
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Unite has warned that temporary dip in headline inflation will be cold comfort for working families who face continued stagnating wages at a time when company profits are soaring. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported today (September 14) that CPI inflation eased to 9.9 per cent in the year to August, down from 10.1 […]
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Unite has slammed prime minister Liz Truss’ plan on energy bills, saying the proposal will make working people pay for energy company profits – and so for a crisis not of their own making. Truss on Thursday (September 8) announced a much-anticipated plan to tackle skyrocketing energy bills by freezing bills at £2,500 a year […]
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Inflation has hit a 40-year high according to the latest figures published today (August 17), which showed the RPI measure of inflation skyrocketing to 12.3 per cent in July, up from 11.8 per cent in June. The newest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that rising food prices were the main driver […]
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New data has shown that the value of UK workers’ wages has fallen at the fastest rate in over 20 years this June. The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the real value of workers’ wages, measured against skyrocketing inflation, has fallen by 3 per cent in the three months to […]
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Unite on Wednesday (July 20) reiterated that it is relentless corporate profiteering — not wage rises — that is driving inflation, as the RPI rate climbed to 11.8 per cent, with the CPI rate of inflation now well above 9 per cent. Commenting, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Workers have had the spring, summer, […]
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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham writes for the forthcoming Unite Landworker magazine*. She says: As I write this column, we are in the midst of a cycle of crisis. And once again the rich and…Read more…
UK inflation has again skyrocketed to nearly 12 per cent, now reaching a 40-year record high, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS published figures…Read more…
When both the Governor of the Bank of England and the Prime Minister called for ‘pay restraint’ it was clear that workers were being set up for a fall. Once again we were being asked to pay the price…Read more…