Farm worker shortage can be solved with better pay
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Difficulties finding seasonal agricultural workers could solved by improving notoriously bad pay and conditions in the sector, Unite has said in response to com...
‘Give us a social security package’
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
As the furlough scheme is about to end, so will the £20 Universal Credit ‘uplift’. With double the number of claimants since onset of Covid, Unite demands the U...
'Workers and businesses still need more help'
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
New figures show more than a half million fewer people on company payrolls since pandemic began
'Metro misery'
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
Tyne and Wear braced for ‘Metro misery’ during rail maintenance strikes
Unite lorry driver manifesto launched
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
Manifesto launched to end chronic UK lorry driver crisis
'Passengers and bus drivers at renewed risk'
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
Mask wearing and reduced capacity on buses must be enforced and extended for public safety, warns Unite
Extend furlough call
Monday, June 14th, 2021
Ahead of expected four-week delay to lockdown easing, Unite reiterates call for continued financial support for workers and hard-hit industries
Thousands of Stoke families at risk
Monday, June 14th, 2021
Stoke council plans to sack health visitors and school nurses would adversely affect up to 3000 families
Dozens of Loganair jobs saved
Monday, June 14th, 2021
35 Loganair cabin crew jobs saved across Scottish airports thanks to innovative training courses
Bromley library win
Friday, June 11th, 2021
Unite hails victory in Bromley library ‘late night openings’ row
Lancashire biomedical scientists strikes continue
Friday, June 11th, 2021
Shame of the NHS bosses who refuse talks to resolve Lancashire biomedical scientists’ pay upgrade dispute
Make your voice heard
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Unite’s current general secretary Len McCluskey is standing down – and the race to be his successor has already started. Who will be the next leader of Unite? U...
Scrapping of electrician deskilling plans welcomed
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Balfour Beatty and NG Bailey commit to JIB agreement
'Counterproductive' redundancies
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Unite protests at Leeds debt charity StepChange over plans to slash up to 170 jobs
Weetabix strikes announced
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
Weetabix strikes at Northamptonshire sites confirmed over company’s disgraceful fire and rehire plans
Outsourced hospital catering staff to strike
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
Royal London hospital patients facing ‘food chaos’ as Serco workers to strike in bullying and roster clash
'Totally unacceptable'
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
‘Exhausted’ north west ambulance staff to consider industrial action over excessive mileage, says Unite
'Just not good enough'
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
Unite: re-heated watchdog proposals fail to address biggest issue facing UK workers – fire and rehire