On behalf of the Waterford Branch of Unite in the Community we offer our sincere condolences to family, friends and comrades on the sad passing of Jimmy Nolan. Jimmy was a docker, an internationalist…Read more…
‘True meaning of solidarity’
Unite heritage union hero Robert Somerville, who sadly passed on Thursday, September 30 at the age of 85, was among the Rolls-Royce workers who took a brave stand against Pinochet’s regime, as…Read more…
How solidarity saved lives
This week UniteLive pays tribute to Robert ‘Bobby’ Somerville (pictured above, left), a Unite heritage union hero who was among the Rolls-Royce workers who took a brave stand against Pinochet’s…Read more…
Tales of real working class heroes
Brian Reade is one of the finest, and rarest, journalists of our time. He exposes the nature of our class system and the inequalities and injustices it’s riddled with. His opinion pieces in the Daily…Read more…
UniteLive’s stories of the year – Battle of Stockton remembered
Every day for the ‘twelve days of Christmas’ this year, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2021. Today, we look back at a story from September, when Unite members…Read more…
‘It’s your voice we want to hear’
Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelings, recollections, triumphs and losses,…Read more…
Video of the year – Our proud rural history
Every day on UniteLIVE during the festive period, we highlight our videos of the year. Today, we feature a film from July, where Unite general secretary Len McCluskey sends a message about…Read more…
Unite History Project
Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelings, recollections, triumphs and losses,…Read more…
‘We want our future back’
The return of striking children, the environment and Brexit’s impact on rural economies emerged as central themes at the annual Burston School Strike rally in Norfolk on Sunday (September 1). …Read more…
‘A struggle that never ends’
Millions of people have taken to the streets in countries across the world today on May Day (May 1) in the largest celebration of working-class solidarity and achievements in the world. In…Read more…
Who we are
A major exhibition of photographer Martin Jenkinson’s work is on in his adopted hometown of Sheffield until April 14 at Weston Park Museum. Martin, who was commissioned by many unions including the…Read more…
‘Remember the past’
Unite, has launched an exciting new history project aimed at engaging directly with a new generation of workers and activists. The project – a centenary history of the Transport and General…Read more…
‘Look to the future’
Trade union leaders and Tudor manor houses may have little in common but Sutton House in Hackney, London is not your usual period building, nor was Clive Jenkins your usual general secretary. …Read more…
‘We can’t drop the ball’
Stitched into many trade union banners across the country and around the world are the words: “Celebrate our past, fight for our future.” If we don’t know where we have come from how do we…Read more…
Finding the truth
She met him at one of the largest protests in UK history. As a million people marched through the streets of London demonstrating against the war in Iraq, there he was – her one in a million, a…Read more…
‘Much deserved honour’
A film documenting the true story of how trade unionists in Scotland, members of Unite’s predecessor unions, took a stand against the Pinochet regime has won the highest honour in Scottish cinema….Read more…
‘Not just of kings and queens’
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey will tonight be calling for the story of Peterloo to be taught in schools, in a speech at a special pre-screening of a new Mike Leigh film that dramatises the…Read more…
‘Here’s to the next 100 years’
Unite’s finance sector, which has 130,000 members, is among the union’s largest groups. Unite has long campaigned tirelessly on issues important to finance members, including on pay, job security,…Read more…
‘100 years young’
Unite celebrated the 100th birthday of one of the union’s longest serving members on Friday (June 22). Former Unite shop steward and retired fitter and turner engineer and train repairman Tom…Read more…
‘They did it all for us’
In the second of our ‘Nae Pasaran!’ stories tortured Chilean trade unionist Sergio Requena-Rueda tells of how news of the East Kilbride boycott gave him the will to live Sergio…Read more…