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Last week, iconic independent cinema Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) signed an historic voluntary recognition agreement with Unite. Earlier this week, we highlighted this key victory in the hospitality sector. Today, we hear from Unite rep and GFT worker Katie Mack who explains how she and her colleagues changed their workplace for the better – and […]
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Last week, Unite announced that it had signed a landmark union recognition agreement with Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) – the first cinema in Scotland to voluntarily do so. The recognition agreement, which covers staff working in GFT’s front of house and cleaning teams, will formalise collective bargaining and negotiation on their pay and relevant workplace […]
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Unite today (26 July) announced strike dates set to hit the world-renowned A.G. Barr’s production and distribution centre in Cumbernauld. Unite confirmed that its trucker and shunter drivers who are essential to the supply of the company’s products including Irn-Bru, one of the nation’s most popular soft drinks, will now strike in a series of […]
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Unite the union confirmed today (June 8) that over 700 offshore members at Bilfinger UK Limited have accepted a ‘vastly’ improved wage offer bringing the pay dispute to an end. Unite’s Bilfinger members accepted a further 6 per cent increase on basic pay in addition to the 4 per cent rise in January 2023. With […]
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Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today we look back at a comment piece from Claire Peden, Unite organiser and team leader of Unite for a Workers’ Economy about their Feed the Weans campaign wins. — In September last year, hundreds of trade unionists […]
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‘Women’s work is often undervalued and underpaid, but UNISON knows the true value’
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2022 has been the year of Unite wins – under general secretary Sharon Graham, Unite has had more victories in the workplace than it can count. As part of our special 12 days of Christmas series, UniteLive looks back at a handful of the many wins we’ve had in every month throughout the year. Today, […]
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One of the biggest councils in the country, Glasgow City Council, has backed Unite the union’s Get Me Home Safely campaign the union announced today (Friday). Glasgow City Council is the eighth and largest local authority so far to call on employers to provide safe and free transport home for all workers past 11 pm. […]
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Discussions between NHS leaders in Scotland on abandoning the health service’s founding principles by having wealthy patients pay for treatment are ‘sickening’, Unite said on Monday (November 21). The discussions, revealed by the BBC, were recorded in draft minutes of a meeting held by NHS Scotland health board chief executives in September. Unite general secretary […]
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Unite confirmed on November 4 that further strike action will take place at Coop Funeralcare in Govan, from Monday November 14 concluding at 07.54 on Monday November 21 – after talks at Acas to resolve the current Co-op coffin factory dispute failed. The meeting broke up without agreement and with no further talks planned continued […]
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It’s an increasingly familiar story – workers described as “essential” at the height of the pandemic, then quickly forgotten as the cost of living crisis takes hold, are now taking a stand by going on strike. But the latest workforce to follow this trajectory had a particularly sombre – but crucial – duty as Britain’s […]
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Members of Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, employed at aerospace company Honeywell, will begin strike action tomorrow (September 8) in a dispute over pay. Around Unite 20 members including production and assembly workers recorded a 78.6 per cent vote in favour of strike action on a 77.8 per cent turnout at Honeywell. The first day […]
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Edinburgh waste workers, members of Unite, began strike action over pay on Thursday (August 18) after Unite formally rejected the latest pay offer. Unite said that the 3.5 per cent offer announced by COSLA last week was ‘nowhere near good enough’ which is also a position supported by several council leaders including those in Edinburgh […]
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Unite members based at Prestwick Airport have voted to accept an improved wage offer bringing the dispute to an end. The trade union has secured significant improvements to the pay, terms and conditions of over 80 members. On average workers will receive a pay uplift of around £1,500 and for some workers up to £2,000 […]
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The nation’s leading offshore trade union, Unite, has confirmed today (8 August) that medics who work on Shell platforms will be balloted on strike action following the rejection of a real terms cut pay. Unite represents more than a dozen workers employed by United Healthcare Global Medical (UK) who provide essential medial cover on oil […]
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Scottish health members, together with those working for the Environment Agency, both provide vital services, which need to be properly funded
The article Blog: I urge members to make sure they have their say on pay first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite the union on Tuesday (August 2) announced a week-long strike action that will hit supplies to Sainsbury’s stores throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland after a poor pay offer was rejected by DHL workers. 96 per cent of DHL workers on a 68 per cent turnout emphatically voted to take strike action following the rejection […]
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Thousands of local government workers overwhelmingly rejected the employers’ 2% offer
The article Scottish council staff back industrial action first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Unite the union today (July 25) confirmed that its members operating the Foinaven Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) have voted to take strike action. 96 per cent voted for strike action on an 84 per cent turnout. Continuous strike action is now scheduled to take place from August 5. The dispute centres on […]
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Prestwick Airport workers have overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute over a real terms pay cut and poverty pay, Scotland’s leading aviation trade union, Unite, confirmed today (July 20). By 78 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout, Unite members supported strike action with Prestwick Airport now set to face disruption in the […]
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