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After a year on the picket line workers remain strong in face of union-busting activities by waste management giant, Veolia, who still refuse to recognise their union for collective bargaining. The one-year anniversary of their strike action passed yesterday (19 August), and still the employer won’t recognise the Unite members right to have their union […]
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A Freedom of Information (FoI) request by Unite has revealed that 1,206 million construction workers were paid via the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) during 2022/23. This was a 15 per cent increase on the figure for 2021/21 when 1,047 workers were paid via the scheme, a 7.5 per cent increase on the previous year. CIS […]
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Strike action planned by nearly 200 Veolia workers at 22 Merseyside household waste sites will not go ahead after the workers accepted an improved pay offer. The two year pay deal, secured by Unite, will see workers receive a 10 per cent pay rise backdated for the financial year 2022/23 and an 8.4 per cent […]
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Members of Unite, employed by Liverpool Streetscene Services Limited (LSSL), are set to undertake industrial action in a dispute over pay. The 80 plus workers are principally employed in refuse collection, street cleaning and parks and cemeteries. They will begin industrial action on Monday 23 January and it will end on Saturday 28 January. Unite […]
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Strike action involving refuse workers employed by Veolia on the outsourced Croydon council contract has been called off after workers accepted an improved pay offer. Strikes were due to begin this…Read more…
Planned refuse collection strikes by members of Unite employed by Biffa on the outsourced Manchester council contract have been called off following an improved pay offer. The strikes were due to…Read more…
Refuse workers employed by Veolia on the outsourced Croydon council contract are to begin balloting for strike action in a dispute over low pay. Unite is balloting around 100 refuse workers employed…Read more…
Unite GS Sharon Graham slams ‘incompetent’ Coventry council fat cats after bin driver picket line visit Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has slammed ‘incompetent’ Coventry council fat…Read more…
Bexley will be hit with a ‘summer stink’ when Serco refuse and cleansing workers strike over low pay and poor treatment, Unite said today (June 29). Around 140 Unite members will take part in two…Read more…
Ministers must fund councils properly to keep places clean and safe
The article Councils in tourist hotspots overwhelmed with litter problems first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Bexley residents have been warned to prepare for ‘summer stink’ as Serco refuse workers prepare to vote in a strike ballot in a dispute over pay and poor treatment of workers, Unite said today….Read more…
How do you get the public on board with policies that no one really supports? Easy – divide and rule, a signature and all-too predictable strategy right out of the Tory government’s playbook….Read more…
Unite has secured a huge pay victory for forty refuse workers winning them substantial back pay. The refuse workers, employed by employment agency Templink and engaged by Serco on Sandwell…Read more…
Unite has vowed to fiercely resist Thurrock Council’s plans to brutally cut the pay and conditions of workers who have been providing essential services during the pandemic. The very workers who have…Read more…
Residents of Doncaster are set to be severely affected by a series of bin strikes over Christmas and New Year, as a result of the constant bullying and harassment of the workforce by outsourcers Suez…Read more…
Bexley councillors have been urged to jettison the controversial Serco refuse contract, as about 140 refuse workers gear up for a strike ballot over health and safety Covid-19 concerns.
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Crunch talks are due to take place tomorrow (Tuesday aJuly 7) to resolve health and safety concerns over the lack of Covid-19 prevention measures at the Crayford refuse depot which serves the London…Read more…
‘To be honest, the public have been giving us better equipment than our employer’
The article Baking for bin men: life as a refuse collector in COVID-19 first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Tower Hamlets residents are facing the prospect of ‘overflowing bins and piles of rubbish’ following the announcement of strike action by Veolia refuse workers over unsettled holiday pay arrears,…Read more…
Refuse workers employed by Newham council could have lost more than £20,000 each in the last decade in a dispute over grading, Unite said today (April 11). The 45 refuse workers will be…Read more…