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“No one should ever have to choose between heating and eating” was the message from Unite’s members holding protests as part of a nationwide Day of Action over energy price hikes. Unite Community activists joined comrades from Unite Retired Members Branches, along with other fuel poverty and pensioner groups, held over 40 events yesterday (April […]
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Unite Community activists from across the country are planning events as part of the the unions forthcoming nationwide Day of Action over energy price hikes – and they would love to see you join them on the streets. Unite branches are organising events in every corner of the UK to highlight the impact of the […]
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Unite is encouraging members to take to the streets and get involved with a national day of action on 1 April to highlight the impact of the rising cost of energy on communities. Unite Community and Unite Retired Members Branches are organising protests nationwide in response to OFGEM’s 6.4% price hike on 1st April, and […]
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Today (Thur 13 Feb) Unite Construction and Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council (BWTUC) got together at Battersea Power Station to celebrate the immense union role at the construction site. The quality and sheer scale of the work is obvious when seeing the riverside project. Converting the former power station into a massive housing project […]
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Striking workers at Princes Food factories across the country are standing firm as the current wave of industrial action enters its second week. The strikes are the result of new owners at Princes revoking a pay offer from the previous employer for Unite members who work as line operatives and engineers. Paul Russell is Unite […]
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Unite Community activists in Somerset have been organising the tenth anniversary of the annual Bridgwater Together festival, an event which aims to challenge divisions and bring communities together. The free cultural festival celebrates the town’s diversity, and this year took place on . Saturday, November 16, with over 500 people packing into Bridgewaters recently renovated […]
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Unite campaigners braved the weather and took to the streets on Tuesday (Oct 1) in protest at the energy price hike and called for energy price guarantees and public ownership. Members of Unite, alongside other community organisations, held rallies and stalls at dozens of UK locations to demonstrate. The demonstrations were part of the Unite4Energy […]
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The Unite Tolpuddle Branch set up its stall at the Dorset One World Festival on Saturday (10th) in Dorchester’s Borough Gardens. With far right unrest across the country it was an ideal time to remember the benefits of the country’s multicultural history. Members from the Dorset branch joined the annual free event which celebrates the […]
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Members from the Somerset & North Devon Unite Community Branch attended a packed community festival in Yeovil over the weekend – and were bowled over by the level of interest in trade unions from people. The Yeovil Together Festival happened on Sunday 14 July in the town’s Westlands Entertainment Venue, and was organised by Love […]
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Unite Community Branches across South and West Yorkshire held street stalls last weekend (15 June), continuing to raise public awareness of the “Unite4Energy for All” campaign. The campaign was launched last December and aims to highlight the need for action on fuel poverty and is demanding: Unite Community Leeds and Wakefield joined forces with the […]
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Amid an unprecedented cost of living crisis, no one has been left untouched by the rising cost of literally everything as inflation soars to record-breaking levels. This is why Unite is urging…Read more…
Ahead of the spring statement on Wednesday, March 23, members of Unite Community will travel to Rishi Sunak’s Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire to urge him to do a lot more to help the UK’s…Read more…
The NHS is under threat and time is running out, Unite has warned. The Health and Care Bill is now being pushed through Parliament, and will have disastrous consequences for the health service if the…Read more…
As a cost of living crisis engulfs the UK, with food and energy prices soaring and the government failing to take any meaningful action, public anger is building. On Saturday (February 12),…Read more…
When the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit went into effect in October, the Tory MPs who pushed it through thought that was the end of it – that they could, with the stroke of a pen, consign…Read more…
Fifty years on veterans of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) “work-in” have called on young workers to take inspiration from their legendary dispute when fighting pandemic redundancies.
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As nearly 6m people face from today (October 6) a £20 a week cut to Universal Credit, just an hour before it was due to go into effect, the Tory welfare chief overseeing the cut was filmed…Read more…
Millions of Britons will face the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the Second World War, if the government pushes through with slashing Universal Credit payments as…Read more…
The government has refused to listen to calls from anti-poverty campaigners, unions and even many of its own ministers after it announced it would plough on with a devastating cut to Universal Credit…Read more…
Carol Mochan, who’s standing to be a Scottish Labour Party candidate in the Scottish Parliament, may not be your usual career politician – but she’s not going to let that stop her.
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