Unite Community members were joined by Labour MPs last week for a Universal Credit demonstration outside Parliament. Together they sent a loud and clear message to the government to cancel the £20 a…Read more…
NHS pay protest
Unite members in health attended a protest over NHS pay on Friday (July 30), joining hundreds of other health workers across London. Members of the Unite Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital branch marched…Read more…
Doctors in Unite in PPE protest
Doctors in Unite (DiU) staged a protest on Tuesday (January 27)over the failure to offer proper PPE protection against airborne transmission to health and social care staff during the continuing…Read more…
London United bus workers out in full force on the picket line
Workers at all seven London United bus garages are on were out on strike on Thursday (April 15). The strikes went ahead after talks brokered by the conciliation service Acas broke up late earlier in…Read more…
Amazon campaign hits the streets
Unite began a major newspaper and digital advertising campaign yesterday (March 31), to alert Amazon workers about a confidential whistle-blowing hotline which has opened in the UK and Ireland.
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Heathrow – get your hands off our wages
On December 1, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers took strike action for the first time in more than 40 years to defend their livelihoods. They’re standing up against the imposition of fire…Read more…
Heathrow workers protest bosses’ greed
As part of Unite’s new aviation campaign, a series of demos were held on Saturday (August 8) and today (August 10) at airports across the country, where workers in the industry, Unite members,…Read more…
A nurse is for life…
Last night, July 29, hundreds of London’s NHS workers started their march to Downing Street from St Thomas’ Hospital on the South Bank to protest about their pay.
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Unite heroes feeding the nation
Unite food, drink and agriculture workers – we thank yo
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Unity call at 135th Durham Miners’ Gala
Unite members from across all regions and sectors joined this year’s 135th Durham Miners’ Gala, where it is estimated that 200,000 people attended on Saturday (July 13). At one of…Read more…
‘Rock solid’ support
Unite Birmingham bin workers took their first day of strike action today (February 19) — one that’s been described as ‘rock solid’. Unite assistant general secretary…Read more…
Scrap ‘tax on our work’ call
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…