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Over 400 workers employed by Brake Brothers based in Newhouse, Motherwell, have secured a major pay increase after standing firm and rejecting an earlier offer from the employer. Brake Brothers provides wholesale food distribution services from the Newhouse facility to the hospitality and retail sectors, with a significant proportion of the company’s work comes from […]
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Engineers at Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge are celebrating this week, after accepting an improved pay offer, and calling off potential strike action. The highly skilled engineers maintain C-130 Hercules aircraft and manufacture auxiliary fuel tanks for the Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, making a vital contribution to allied defence capability. In July around 250 […]
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High skilled defense workers in Wales are celebrating after accepting a substantial pay rise after the employer saw sense and negotiated a two year deal of eight per cent with the union. Workers at Qioptiq, a high-tech defence optics company in Denbighshire, North Wales had voted to take strike action earlier in June after rejecting […]
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Unite members in airports across Scotland have been celebrating over recent days as a number of substantial pay increases have been secured by the union. The agreements were not only good news for nearly a thousand airport workers in Scotland, but also passengers who now no longer have to worry about potential industrial actions spoiling […]
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Workers at one of the world’s leading manufacturers of authentic tartan has secured an inflation-busting pay rise thanks to the hard work of the union and reps. Around 70 workers at Lochcarron Mill in Selkirk will see they pay increase rising by up to 6.7 per cent, and with inflation currently at around 3 per […]
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After weeks of determined strike action that began in mid January, WSP Textiles workers in Stroud and Dursley yesterday (5 March) voted to accept an improved pay offer from the company. The workers at the sports cloth manufacturer were on strike for the first time in their history, and the industrial action saw snooker and […]
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Unite lab workers have taken on one of the biggest pathology companies in the world and won, with the successful campaign to improve pay and conditions resulting in a recruitment surge for the union and hundreds of new members joining. In October 2025 members working for Health Service Laboratories (HSL) and the Doctor’s Laboratory (TDL) […]
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Bus drivers across South Wales are celebrating a pay win after securing an above-inflation award following strike action across the network. Unite members had been locked in a bitter struggle with their employer First Cymru, which resulted in drivers resorting to eight days of strike action to highlight the low levels of pay they were […]
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Unite bus drivers across the UK have been fighting for, and winning, decent pay rises as workers struggle to keep up with bills during the continuing cost of living crisis. The government has said that buses are vital for the country, with Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander saying they aim to “improve and maintain bus services” […]
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Each day throughout the holiday season, UniteLive will feature one of our twelve stories of the year. On the third day of Christmas, UniteLive looks back on a key win in the hospitality sector in August, when members, many of them young, took a brave stand against their employer, Village Hotels. Three weeks of strike […]
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Barts Trust staff are celebrating a huge victory for pay justice after workers voted to accept a deal which will see them receive the equivalent of the Covid bonus they fought so long and hard for. Barts domestic and facilities staff bravely took multiple days of strike action since autumn of last year after they […]
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It’s the conclusion of #HeartUnions week this week, and what a week it was! The theme of this year’s #HeartUnions week is ‘Want a pay rise? Join a union!” — and no other union has embodied this theme more than Unite. In the last year, Unite has secured hundreds of millions of pounds in pay […]
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Strike action by over 150 Birmingham airport security officers and terminal technicians has been cancelled after they accepted an improved pay deal. The one year pay deal will see the workers’ pay increase by 13.25 per cent, made up of a 10.5 per cent consolidated rise and 2.75 per cent non-consolidated. The deal will also […]
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Strikes scheduled for this weekend at Gatwick by ASC workers have been called off, Unite said this week. ASC workers voted in favour of a double digit pay rise, while workers at Menzies voted in favour of a 13 per cent increase for ground handling staff and a 17 per cent increase for the lowest […]
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Members of Unite employed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) have secured significant improvements to their jobs, pay and conditions after a series of strikes. The employer had imposed a 2.5 per cent pay increase last year but the offer has been doubled to 5 per cent alongside bonuses of between […]
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Strike action affecting Welwyn and Hatfield council’s refuse collection service has been resolved following several days of strike action. The 90 plus members of Unite and employed by waste company Urbaser on Welwyn and Hatfield council’s outsourced refuse collection service, began strike action on Monday (June 19) in a dispute over pay. However, following talks […]
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Every day over the Christmas period, UniteLive is running a different story from our top stories of 2023. Today, we look back at Unite general secretary Sharon Graham’s inspiring May Day message. – May 1st is an important date for trade unions. For us it marks International Workers Day. It is time to reflect on […]
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Fears that the JLR plant at Halewood on Merseyside could grind to a halt this spring have been averted after Unite agreed a deal with the company’s contractor DHL, following the withdrawal of shift premiums. The dispute arose as a result of the DHL workforce – who are employed on the logistics and dispatch contract […]
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West Midlands bus strikes have ended after a ballot of more 3,100 National Express drivers resulted in an improved offer being accepted, Unite announced on Saturday (March 25). The offer includes a one-year 16.2 per cent pay increase and improvements to the drivers’ accident pay and hourly rates for working over the Christmas holidays. National […]
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Unite the union has secured an inflation-busting pay increase for tanker drivers employed on the Phillips 66 contract delivering to Jet Garages and employed by JW Suckling. The deal is worth up to £11,000 a year for the drivers based in Essex, Grangemouth and West London. However, strike action involving Hoyer drivers based in the […]
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