Labour Starmer’s “get your priorities right and defeat virus” call to Johnson
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Calling on the government to replace the furlough scheme and outlaw ‘firing and re-hiring’ practices as part of a “genuine national plan” for jobs, Labour leade...
'We're going to have to win it'
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
Unite AGS Steve Turner in call to arms to fight for additional government support to avert job loss tsunami
Unite concerns for PHE demise
Monday, September 14th, 2020
A total of 13 health unions and professional organisations, including Unite, have written to the health and social care secretary Matt Hancock protesting at Pub...
Bus drivers begin strike ballot
Monday, September 14th, 2020
London bus drivers employed by Singapore-owned Metroline will be balloted next week for industrial action which could hit the capital's roads this autumn in a d...
'We won't rest until we win'
Monday, September 14th, 2020
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady calls for new deal for working people
'It's time for equality'
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland calls for action on equality at TUC 2020
'Unionised workplaces are safer workplaces'
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Unite takes part in first TUC debate on safety at work amid Covid-19 pandemic
'Amazing victory'
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Topshop's Arcadia retail firm U-turns on redundancy pay after Unite intervenes
Chancellor – don’t walk away
Monday, September 14th, 2020
This year’s 152nd TUC conference in London may be very different as it’s being held on line – but the messages trade unions including Unite are making are cryst...
‘Chaos and confusion’
Monday, September 14th, 2020
“Given that employers, customs agents and drivers will have to familiarise themselves with complex new border arrangements, it is completely unacceptable that l...
‘Congress must speak as one on Covid – our class will not pay for another crisis’
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Has the Covid-19 crisis really given us no option other than to brace ourselves for a “necessary period of adjustment”?
Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Ba...
Early NHS pay rise call
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite calls for a ‘well-deserved’ 15 per cent pay rise or £3,000 for NHS staff on the Covid-19 frontline
‘Afraid to take sick leave’
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite warns Norfolk’s Banham Poultry refusal to provide company sick pay increases risk of another outbreak
'Disgraceful behaviour must stop'
Friday, September 11th, 2020
Unite London and Eastern cab section condemns abusive behaviour of London cabbies outside City Hall
Momentum grows for furlough scheme extension
Friday, September 11th, 2020
MPs join mounting call for job retention measures to avert employment crisis
Heroes and zeroes
Friday, September 11th, 2020
UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid coronavirus crisis
'Economic and environmental vandalism'
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Unite slams government denying permission to new open cast coal mine
Track and trace doomed to fail unless sick pay raised
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Majority of workers would face financial hardship if forced to self-isolate on SSP