Unite members working in Thurrock council’s waste collection service have agreed to end the current threat of strike action; but tensions remain in the service and the threat of strikes could be…Read more…
‘Big brother’ bin strike off
Strikes by Thurrock council’s waste collection workers due to be begin next week (April 12) have been suspended following lengthy negotiations. The strikes involving 65 members of Unite…Read more…
‘Rubbish management’
Workers employed in Thurrock council’s waste collection service are set to begin strike action on April 12 in a dispute caused by the organisation’s ‘rubbish management’. The 65 workers who…Read more…
Dial-a-ride workers to strike
Unite members employed by Dial-a-ride will begin a 48-hour stoppage from just past midnight tomorrow (March 28) in a dispute over the withdrawal of rest days and the imposition of new rosters. …Read more…
Gatwick strike vote
Workers at Gatwick Airport have begun balloting for strike action in a dispute over a below inflation pay increase. If workers support industrial action then strikes could begin by the end April….Read more…
Concrete maker row
Fresh strike dates were announced by Unite today (February 20), in a further escalation of the dispute with Essex based Tarmac Building Products Ltd, over the creation of a two tier workforce. …Read more…
Right to picket win
Unite has won a key legal victory overturning attempts to restrict the right to picket during strike action. The legal case arose as a result of a dispute involving Sutton Tanker workers based…Read more…
3M pay strike off
Strike action due to begin next month at dust mask and respirator makers 3M, based in Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, has been called off after a vastly improved pay offer was accepted by the…Read more…
Nearly there
The dispute at Cummins Generator Technologies in Stamford has moved closer to a resolution after workers have accepted ‘in principle’ a revised offer, Unite said today (January 26). Unite,…Read more…
Joint demo
Hundreds of Unite members will come together in central Manchester this Friday (January 26) in a joint demonstration. Workers on three separate disputes in Manchester (Manchester…Read more…
Pay boost win
Workers at an engineering company in Bolton have secured a major boost to their basic pay after taking a stand. The win means workers’ basic pay will increase on average by £3,500. Earlier…Read more…
Pay cuts threat
Tarmac Building Products Ltd is set to be hit by a series of strikes when Unite start a programme of industrial action next week in a dispute over cuts to pay and two-tier working. The…Read more…
Sellafield strikes off
A strike by members of Unite scheduled for next Tuesday (January 23), which would have created widespread disruption at Sellafield, has been called off to allow for negotiations aimed at resolving…Read more…
‘Unnecessary’ housing misery
Unite has accused the management of Vivark, which provides housing maintenance services for thousands of tenants in Knowsley, Merseyside of being ‘pig headed’ for their blinkered approach to an…Read more…
‘Massive’ strike vote
The workers at Cummins Generator Technologies in Stamford have voted by an overwhelming 93 per cent for strike action over the failure of management to negotiate constructively over plans to shed 300…Read more…
Union reps victimised
More than 250 Unite members in Manchester have voted for 11 days of strike action at IT giant Fujitsu in one of the longest running industrial disputes in the UK. One of the features of this…Read more…
‘Furious and determined’
Workers at a fork lift truck engineering company in Bolton are on strike today (January 8) in protest over a paltry pay offer which amounts to a real terms pay cut. 82 per cent of workers at…Read more…
Read all about it!
As we begin a new year, UNITElive takes a look back at what you were reading last year. Below are the 10 most popular UNITElive stories of 2017 in reverse order. Thanks for reading! 10….Read more…
‘We won this’
McDonald’s workers who went on strike for the first time in the firm’s UK history celebrated last Thursday (January 4) after winning their biggest pay rise in more than a decade. The victory…Read more…
More Fujitsu strikes?
Up to 300 Unite members in Manchester are to vote on further strike action at IT giant Fujitsu in one of the longest running industrial disputes in the UK. The ballot comes after the failure…Read more…