Back to the South West and the vibrant city of Bristol. Unite rep and secretary of the Bristol Legal and Finance branch, Simon Crew is standing as a Labour candidate for the Council seat of…Read more…
Bristol health branch helps show racists the red card
‘People voiced exactly how they felt. They pulled no punches’
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Latest bus driver assaults ‘not isolated events’
Assaults on bus drivers continue apace amid the coronavirus pandemic, with a spate of recent incidents in the south west region, where the union has thousands of bus driver members. Unite condemned…Read more…
The struggles of rural poverty
Every year, or at least every normal year, the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival takes place in the village of Tolpuddle, in Dorset, where trade unionists from across the UK gather to commemorate…Read more…
Regional threat amid Flybe collapse
Regional airports and their supply chains, which support tens of thousands of jobs, could be at risk without government intervention, Unite warned, after Europe’s biggest regional airline Flybe…Read more…
From multinational to local café
Unite member Lily Chasteau, 24, knows that even in the 21st century, some topics of conversation are still considered off-limits. “A friend of mine started her period when we were 14 and she…Read more…
UNISON helps University of Bath win living wage accreditation
More than 300 staff will gain as the region’s largest employer makes the move
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‘Absolutely disgrace’
Public sector workers in Jersey, one of Europe’s most prosperous enclaves, are striking over a ‘derisory’ below inflation pay offer from their employer, the cash-rich States of Jersey government….Read more…
Unpaid leave plan slammed
Cash-strapped Somerset county council’s plan to ask its workforce to take two days unpaid leave in each of the next two years is a result of its own financial incompetence, Unite said today (August…Read more…
Care workers strike against pay cuts
Some 120 UNISON members in Bath and north east Somerset take action over employers’ ‘work-for-free’ proposals
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Wigan hospital workers vote for strike ballot
Wigan NHS members reject plans to transfer them to wholly-owned subsidiary company
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Businesses and unions across the country call for right to remain for EU citizens
Today chambers of commerce representing businesses and TUC offices across the country put out joint statements calling for the government to stop stalling and give EU citizens the right to remain in the UK after Brexit. These joint statements back the …Read more…
Feudalism ‘alive and well’
The treatment of workers at the ancient Port Eliot Estate in Cornwall, following the death of the 10th Earl of St Germans, smacks of ‘a modern form of feudalism’, Unite has said. The union…Read more…
UNISON secures employment tribunal win for careers advisers
UNISON has won a hard fought victory for workers in the careers service against Prospects Limited. Prospects Limited took over the delivery of the National Careers Services contract in the…Read more…
South West care company signs Ethical Care Charter
Cornish care company Cormac has signed up to UNISON’s Ethical Care Charter, the first in the South West to do so
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