Unite joined US gas workers — members of United Steelworkers (USW), Unite’s sister union in North America — to stage a demonstration at the National Grid’s AGM in Birmingham this morning…Read more…
Marxists, evangelicals, business executives, working class activists — meet Mexico’s strange new ruling coalition
“A good overview by a reporter who knows Mexico’ – Ben Davis, United Steelworkers. By Dudley Althaus, Washington Post, July 6th In winning Mexico’s presidency by a landslide, Andrés…Read more…
Unions Welcome Tata – Thyssenkrupp Agreement
The trade unions within Tata Steel UK (Unite, Community and GMB) have welcomed the announcement that Tata Steel and thyssenkrupp will form a joint venture. The three unions recognise the industrial…Read more…
AFL-CIO and ETUC Support Fair Trade Practices
AFL-CIO and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) issued a joint statement today on trade and multilateralism on June 15, 2018: The working people of the United States and Europe have been…Read more…
Speech at the launch of ‘A Trade Governance Model That Works For Everyone’ – London May 10th
Good evening and thanks for the inviation to speak this evening. Unite and the TUC has worked with all of the bodies who took part in the work of publishing the document A Trade Governance Model…Read more…
Unite Women’s Letter Takes Observer To Task Over Sexist Cohen Article
Last weekend, the Observer’s dreary Nick Cohen varied his usual anti-Corbyn bile by launching a misogynist attack against the Unite union’s Jennie Formby, who is one of two women on the final…Read more…
Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs
The following blog is from MIT Technology Review and puts an alternative view on the current trend by some politicians and techies who argue that automation will create more and new jobs. Of course…Read more…
Unite South East Sponsor ‘Jazz For Labour’ With Courtney Pine Gig
Unite South East Region is sponsoring a unique ‘Jazz For Labour’ event on 3rd March when legendary jazz musician Courtney Pine will be playing in concert in the Leatherhead Theatre. Pine will be…Read more…
Factory Gate Meetings At Bombardier Belfast – Thursday January 18th
Workers to gather for union meetings between noon and 1.00pm on Thursday [January 18th] at gates of all five Bombardier sites Decision by US International Trade Commission on proposed 292% C Series…Read more…
Fantasy Trade Deals: Welcome To Cloud Cuckoo Land
Last weeks latest ‘flight of fancy’ by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and his Brexit team (cheered on by the pro-Brexit media) that the UK has held informal talks on joining the Trans-Pacific…Read more…
Treason is punished, courage is rewarded – Napoleón Gómez Urrutia
Excellent article from La Jornada, in Mexico, 21st December 2017 on Mexican trade unions and the Mexican independent union Los Mineros joining with Unite the Union and the United Steelworkers in our…Read more…
Oppose Tory Plans To Scrap Your Woking Time Rights
Well, it finally happened. After promising to protect workers rights, the Prime Minister is now under pressure to begin disamantling basic workers rights once we leave the EU with Boris Johnson and…Read more…
Brexit secretary tells Parliament & public that industry impact studies do not exist
Unite has said David Davis has “deceived Parliament and the public”, after the Brexit secretary admitted the government has not carried out assessments of the impact of leaving the EU for different…Read more…
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Delegates, Unite Sector Conferences, November 15th, 2017.
Speech to Unite Manufacturing Sector Conference – 15th November 2017 The Challenge of Brexit Conference we meet at a time when manufacturing is being damaged by the Brexit chaos created by a…Read more…
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Mr. Fox Goes To Washington – Why?
UK trade secretary Liam Fox MP is visted Washington, D.C. on Monday, 24th July for talks with the US administration on a future UK-US trade deal. As representatives of working people on both sides of…Read more…
Brexit Chickens Coming Home To Roost
“The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost” a prominant person in the automotive industry told me during a discussion about the announcement by Michel Barnier that the UK would not…Read more…
Unite warns voters ‘Tories are no friends of the North’
The Conservative Party is ‘no friend of the North’ but instead the party of the ‘leafy shires and the lucky few’, Unite the country’s largest union is warning. Billboards carrying that message will…Read more…
Labour’s Workers Charter
At last a radical employment rights programme set out by the Labour Party – can anyone disagree with these proposals? LABOUR’S WORKERS CHARTER Give all workers equal rights from day one,…Read more…