Scotland’s biggest construction union has hit out after the First Minister failed to back union rights during a visit to a new hospital in Dumfries. The hospital is being built by a consortium…Read more…
‘Paying over the odds’
Bringing Scotland’s crisis-hit bus industry back into public hands could generate up to £76m a year to improve services, according to research for Unite. Unite commissioned Transport for…Read more…
Scottish further education workers win battle for pay fairness
Months of campaigning and industrial action win improved pay offer for FE workers which matches that of lecturers
The article Scottish further education workers win battle for pay fairness first…Read more…
Get Glasgow moving
Campaigners are to lobby councillors at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport demanding affordable, joined-up public transport in Glasgow. And the Get Glasgow Moving campaign is also taking…Read more…
Legal action threat
Unite has threatened to take legal action after staff working on Glasgow’s new waste power plant were locked out of the the site and paid off with just a week’s notice. Glasgow City Council…Read more…
People before profit
Campaigners for better buses took to the streets of Dundee today (December 8) calling on Holyrood to bring services back under public control. Members of Unite Community’s Dundee branch set up…Read more…
Haud the bus!
People across Scotland are backing Unite’s Haud the Bus campaign to bring buses back under public ownership. Unite’s Community section set up the ‘Haud the Bus’ campaign to protest against…Read more…
Rethink bank branch closures
Unite the union has urged MSPs to back a motion calling on RBS and other banks to think again about ‘slash and burn’ branch closures. Last week, RBS announced plans to close a further 86…Read more…
Recognise our value
Shipbuilders on the Clyde breathed a sigh of relief when the UK government announced last month that work on the Type-26 frigate programme would begin in earnest next summer, after the project had…Read more…
‘Death by a thousand cuts’
Unite has expressed ‘bitter disappointment’ over further bank branch closures announced by RBS Group. Unite, the largest union representing RBS staff, said the taxpayer-owned bank was…Read more…
Growing unrest
The prospect of industrial unrest at the Dounreay nuclear decommissioning site in Caithness is growing after DSRL, the company which employs most of the staff on site, indicated it was not prepared…Read more…
Standing up to ‘corporate greed’
Workers at drinks giant Diageo have voted to take industrial action over plans to slash their pensions at a time when the company is making massive profits. Members of Unite voted by an…Read more…
When Sir Alex Ferguson met UNISON’s Tom Hart
Union steward and football legend feature in Scottish government lung cancer awareness film
The article When Sir Alex Ferguson met UNISON’s Tom Hart first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Welcome announcement
Caving in to pressure from all sides, including lobbying and campaigning from Unite, the UK government has finally announced today (November 4) that work on the long-awaited Type-26 frigates would…Read more…
Fuel poverty rising
Unite says politicians need to support public ownership of energy companies if they are serious about tackling the country’s fuel poverty crisis. Yesterday (November 3) Scottish Housing…Read more…
North Ayrshire – a living wage employer
UNISON welcomes accreditation for latest Scottish council
The article North Ayrshire – a living wage employer first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Inverclyde signs up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter
Health and social care partnership commits to achieving fair work, better pay and improved quality of care on eve of Living Wage Week
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UNISON and Scottish FE employers to talk at Acas
Further education committee agrees to talks, but further strikes remain a possibility
The article UNISON and Scottish FE employers to talk at Acas first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Undercover cop inquiry call
A review into undercover policing in Scotland is too narrow and needs to be broadened into an inquiry that will include the use of police spies during the historic 1980s print workers strike, Unite’s…Read more…
Protect North Sea jobs
Scotland’s biggest union has called for urgent government action to protect jobs in the North Sea. Unite the union was commenting after a new report from the industry body Oil & Gas UK…Read more…