A 38,000-signature petition protesting at the proposed 18 per cent fee hike for registration to the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) was handed into the council’s chief executive today…Read more…
Patients before profit
The fight against NHS privatisation goes on as maintenance and estates staff at both York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust have gone on…Read more…
Wearing red
Show Racism the Red Card launched it’s annual Wear Red Day event, to be held on October 19, at Unite the Union headquarters last night (September 5), where union members and former and current…Read more…
Happy Birthday our NHS!
Here are some delegates’ selfies fresh from our Unite communications digital zone. We love you NHS! …Read more…
Unite celebrates May Day
Unite joined throngs of protesters today (May 1) for the annual May Day march in London, where hundreds called for an end to austerity and better pay, terms and conditions for working people, among…Read more…
Unite remembers
Unite activists gathered at Tower Hill in London on Saturday (April 28), International Workers’ Memorial Day, to pay tribute to those who’ve been killed or injured at work. …Read more…
TGI Fridays demo
Dozens came out to protest TGI Fridays’ unfair tipping practices and unpaid trial shifts in a demo organised by Unite on Friday (April 13) outside the restaurant chain’s Covent Garden…Read more…
Unite says no to UC Xmas pain
On Saturday (December 2) Unite and Unite Community members took to the streets in towns and cities across the UK, protesting against the inhuman injustice of Universal Credit. Below we have a…Read more…
Broken pledge protest
Unite hotel workers and Citizens UK protested outside a Holiday Inn in London today (November 10), demanding that its parent company Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) keep its promises and pay the…Read more…
Strong stand
Unite members at Argos’ distribution network strike over the company’s failure to negotiate a national agreement covering redundancy and severance packages. Argos has failed to give…Read more…
‘Hat trick’ protests
In a stunning display of solidarity, workers involved in three separate disputes were joined by Unite Community branches from across London in a protest against low pay under the banner of…Read more…
Strong stand
Unite regional officer Terry Keefe said, “Our members have taken a strong stand on the picket line at DB Glass in Newton Abbot and shown excellent solidarity as they start a 48 hour strike…Read more…
Showroom protest
Car workers, who make engines, the Mini and Rolls-Royce motorcars for BMW,protested outside the German carmaker’s flagship showroom on Park Lane in Mayfair, London on Saturday (April 29) over the…Read more…
Solid support
A 24 hour strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini was being solidly supported today (April 19), as workers mounted picket lines and production lines lay idle over the luxury carmaker’s…Read more…
BMW: Get ‘heads out of sand’ plea
Unite members at BMW’s Swindon Mini plant assembled in droves outside the carmaker’s site this afternoon (April 5) to protest the threatened closure of their final salary pension scheme, which could…Read more…
‘Enough is enough’
Unite members joined campaigners from Yorkshire and beyond as they collectively took to the streets in Leeds on Saturday (April 1) in defence of the NHS. With a turnout reportedly exceeding…Read more…
BMW: Unite Munich protest
BMW workers took their fight to protect their pensions all the way to the car maker’s headquarters in Munich on Wednesday (March 29) days before their ballot for industrial action closes today…Read more…
‘Over the moon’
Yesterday afternoon couldn’t have been very productive in the Home Office as 500 campaigners stood outside banging pots and pans, blowing whistles and shouting out to make some noise for Orgreave….Read more…
‘Strengthening our industrial voice’
Unite hosted a Migrant Workers Conference on Wednesday (February 22), which was held at the union’s central office in London and hosted a wide range of speakers including Unite executive…Read more…
Low pay? No way!
Unite BA cabin crew took their fight against poverty pay to Parliament today (February 7) as they enlisted the support of MPs. Cabin crew, who earn on average only £16,000 a year including…Read more…