The North Sea oil workforce suffered another blow this week (May 25) after Shell announced it would cut 475 jobs in the UK and Ireland. The latest announcement is part of a wider raft of Shell…Read more…
CalMac victory
Unite has welcomed today’s (May 19) decision to award the western isles ferry services contract to CalMac as a victory for the workforce and a “magnificent public service.” The new contract,…Read more…
Austerity max
An angry demonstration has been staged against plans to cut health spending in Fife by tens of millions of pounds. Unite members joined local people in staging a noisy protest at Kirkcaldy’s…Read more…
Keep ferries public
One of the first actions of the new Scottish government’s transport minister should be to ensure that the Clyde and Hebrides ferry routes remain in public hands Unite today (May 9). With a…Read more…
Stagecoach asked to ‘think again’
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, will express concern at a meeting next week about the proposed closure of the Stagecoach bus depot in Dundee. Bosses at the bus company have advised union…Read more…
21st century fleet
Aberdeen-based transport company FirstGroup has struck a deal with Falkirk based bus company Alexander Dennis (ADL) and Wrightbus of Northern Ireland to build a new fleet of state of the art buses….Read more…
‘Most pressing priorities’
The Scottish TUC (STUC) conference began this week on Monday (April 18 to 20), when delegates from Unite moved motions on a range of issues from the government’s controversial trade union Bill to…Read more…
Use your vote on 5 May
Jobs and public services – the most important issues at the elections on 5 May
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PFI: National scandal
The closure of 17 Edinburgh schools built by the same company under a private finance initiative (PFI) due to safety fears could be the “tip of the iceberg” of shoddy PFI work across Scotland, Unite…Read more…
Vote for investment in public services, Scots urged
UNISON Scotland launches manifesto for 5 May Scottish Parliament poll: Public services and the good society
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Public library service ‘hollowed out’ by job losses and cuts
UNISON backs BBC report that reveals loss of 8,000 jobs and 343 libraries in six years
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Decent work for all
Unite Scotland community and youth activists will tell delegates to the Scottish Labour Party spring conference tomorrow (March 19) that growing trade union membership is the remedy to the rise of…Read more…
Starved of funds
Unite Scotland has responded with scorn and concern to the latest finance figures which show there’s been close to £1.5 bn worth of cuts to local government since 2011. According to official…Read more…
UNISON backs Scottish higher education reform bill
Bill proposing to give unions a seat on all university courts dye to receive third reading in Scottish Parliament
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Universities in the money?
UNISON calls on higher education employers to invest in staff after £1bn+ surplus unveiled for third year in a row
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UNISON Scotland joins day of action against Trade Union Bill
Facility time, overwork and workplace stress among the big themes as unions engage with employers
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On the ‘brink of collapse’?
More bad news for the oil industry hit the headlines late last week (February 19), as the Aberdeen-based oil services firm Wood Group slashed contractor wages for the third time since the downturn in…Read more…
Not listening
Unite Scotland says the Scottish Government is ‘not listening’ to local government workers, who will descend on the Scottish Parliament again tomorrow (February 24) in protest against a £600…Read more…
UNISON Scotland mounts day of action against austerity
Members across the country call on Edinburgh parliament to use its powers to protect and fund local services people rely on
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Emergency measures
Unite has warned that billion-pound losses announced this week by oil industry super-majors could bring an end to meaningful production in the North Sea within years unless there’s serious…Read more…