The second day of 2024’s sector conferences encompassed Unite’s service sectors including construction, finance and health. Below we feature pictorial highlights from general secretary Sharon Graham’s speech and questions in the plen…Read more…
Unite delegation at TUC
Unite’s delegation (pictured below) celebrated the final day of yet another successful TUC Congress on Wednesday (September 11). If you missed any of UniteLive’s coverage of TUC Congress, you can catch up here.
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Unite at the TUC – Tuesday
UNITElive is here at this year’s TUC bringing a regular photo gallery of each day’s highlights. Below are photos from Tuesday (September 10)
Unite at the TUC – Monday
UNITElive is here at this year’s TUC bringing a regular photo gallery of each day’s highlights. Below are photos from Monday (September 9).
Unite at the TUC
UNITElive is here at this year’s TUC bringing a regular pic a gallery of our the highlights. Here are some pics from yesterday
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‘Overworked and burnt out’
A series of demos by striking Guys’ and St Thomas’ theatre nurses in London this week culminated at the gates of No 10 Downing Street on Thursday (September 5). Around 100 theatre nurses have been in dispute since June over unsustainable increases in shift times. On Thursday they sent a loud and clear message that […]
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Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival – in photos
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined thousands of trade union members at the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in Dorset this weekend (July 19-21). On the final day of the festival (July 21), Sharon gave a barnstorming speech paying tribute to the Martyrs, their successors — Unite’s agricultural workers — as well as the Martyrs’ descendants, linking […]
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Durham Miners’ Gala – in photos
Unite joined the wider trade union movement at the 138th Durham Miners’ Gala this weekend, where attendees marked the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Held on the second Saturday of July each year, the gala sees trade union members and their friends and families descend on the city of Durham for the largest gathering […]
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Port Talbot steelworkers keep fighting
A rally was held outside of the Port Talbot steelworks on Monday (June 17) ahead of industrial action which began the following day to stop Tata unnecessarily closing its blast furnaces and cutting 2,800 jobs. Around 1,500 Tata steelworkers based in Port Talbot and Newport Llanwern began working to rule as well as taking part in a […]
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‘Don’t settle for it – join Unite!’
The Unite London Building Workers branch were back on the streets to talk to workers and hand out copies of the latest BuildingWorker last week. This time, branch officers and activists were in the City of London highlighting issues around Erith Group and its refusal to allow union reps on their site. Declan Murphy was […]
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Uber fightback
Unite mobilised a significant protest outside a full Crawley council meeting last week to demand councillors do more to enforce licensing laws against Uber, which is destroying the livelihoods of private hire taxis in the area. Crawley taxi drivers, Unite members, were out in full force on Friday (May 24) to call on the council […]
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‘No way’ to low pay
Drax shareholders heard Unite’s message loud and clear at the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London on Thursday (April 25) as striking canteen workers based at Drax power station fight for fair pay. Unite reps and activists descended on the AGM in support of the canteen workers, who have been in dispute with their […]
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BuildingWorker – spreading the word
The Unite London Building Workers branch was out in full force this week as they handed out hundreds of copies of the latest issue of the BuildingWorker magazine at a construction site in West London. The active branch regularly distributes the magazine as a recruitment and organising tool outside various sites throughout the capital, especially […]
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DHL Aviation – on the picket line
Striking DHL Aviation workers at East Midlands Airport stood defiant on the picket line on Wednesday (February 28) as they were joined by their general secretary Sharon Graham. The Unite members are now fighting a massive real-terms pay cut by their employer DHL Aviation, which Unite research has shown has made record-breaking profits. You can […]
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‘We are the NHS too’
Low-paid facilities staff from across London working for Barts NHS Trust demonstrated at the Department of Health in Westminster today (February 21). Around 100 Unite members took to the streets of Westminster to highlight the failure of Barts Trust to honour its commitment to pay an NHS lump sum “thank you” payment for working during […]
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Port Talbot fights for steel
The Port Talbot community joined Unite steelworkers, officers and activists for the union’s biggest demonstration to date on Saturday (February 17) in the fight to save steel jobs. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham joined the protest and gave an impassioned speech in a rallying cry for the thousands of jobs now at risk at Tata’s […]
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Scunthorpe fights for steel
Unite steel campaign gained further momentum on Thursday (February 1) after it hosted a series of events in steel towns across the UK. In Scunthorpe, residents joined Unite steel reps and activists erecting ‘UK Steel Jobs Not for Sale’ signs in front gardens on various streets throughout the town. It was a proud display of […]
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‘Not for Sale’
Steelworkers, residents, local councillors and activists were out in full force in Port Talbot for Unite’s latest steel campaign event on Thursday (February 1) to send a loud and clear message that UK steel jobs were ‘not for sale’. More than 200 ‘Not for Sale’ signs were erected in front gardens in a number of […]
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Unite will resist
Unite members joined thousands of people from the trade union movement at the TUC’s Protect the Right to Strike march and rally on Saturday (January 27) in Cheltenham. Unite made a particularly strong showing at the demonstration, with members from all sectors represented including health, local government, steel and many others. They all sent a […]
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Steelworkers head to Parliament
Unite members from Port Talbot steelworks descended on Parliament earlier this week (January 23) ahead of an opposition day debate on protecting the UK’s steel industry. The debate was called following an announcement last week that Tata Steel is planning to close its blast furnaces with the potential loss of more than 2,800 jobs. Below […]
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