Tesco drivers and warehouse workers reject pay offer
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Lorry drivers and warehouse workers at four Tesco distribution centres have rejected a below inflation pay offer. If members vote for strike action, Tesco’s shelves will quickly become empty this winter, potentially affecting the Christmas period, Unite, the UK’s leading union, has warned
'We can win on fire and rehire'
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Unite ramps up campaign to fight fire and rehire with national day of action
'Cancel the cut' call
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Unite Community members protest outside Parliament calling on gov’t to cancel Universal Credit cut and extend £20 uplift to all claimants
'Stand up and stop the bullying'
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
Unite is today (Wednesday September 15) holding a national day of action as part of its campaign to end fire and rehire. The union's general secretary, Sharon G...
‘The only way workers do not pay price of pandemic’
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Unite GS responds to Starmer’s TUC speech by defending Jobs, Pay and Conditions
Work and pensions secretary 'lives on a different planet'
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
DWP secretary Thérèse Coffey slammed for suggesting families facing Universal Credit cut should simply work longer hours
Unite members to fight against ‘this needless hardship’
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Labour’s opposition debate on the controversial cut, which is earmarked for after Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) this Wednesday, comes just days after work a...
TUC Congress highlights
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Monday's highlights from Unite speakers
Unite GKN members announce all-out strike to save jobs
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Members of Unite employed at the GKN Drivelines factory in Erdington Birmingham, have announced that they will begin an all-out continuous strike action later t...
Fire and rehire speech
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Newly elected Unite general secretary Sharon speaks out against this 'abhorrent practice'.
'Reps are part of our movement'
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Unite AGS Diana Holland highlights vital importance of union equality reps at TUC 2021
‘Fire and rehire is an abhorrence’
Monday, September 13th, 2021
“Our priority must be to co-ordinate a fightback at the work place. We have all shown that fire and rehire can be beaten. At British Airways, we stopped the wor...
'Fighting for our members must come first'
Monday, September 13th, 2021
It was early morning at a factory on Humberside. My campaign team were handing out leaflets as workers made their way in to work. One worker told the team: “I v...
Manchester tram drivers vote to strike
Monday, September 13th, 2021
Manchester faces severe disruption as tram drivers vote for strikes over pitiful pay offer
‘Climate change is here – right now’
Sunday, September 12th, 2021
“Colleagues, nobody in this virtual hall is going to disagree on the scale of the challenge ahead. Climate change is not somebody else’s problem, an issue for t...
Leeds taxi rank protest
Friday, September 10th, 2021
‘Intolerable obstacles’ at Leeds station face disabled and elderly travellers as taxi rank is set to move, Unite warns
'A cruel hypocrisy'
Friday, September 10th, 2021
Tories vote against Coventry council supporting the Right to Food campaign
'They aren't fixing anything'
Friday, September 10th, 2021
Care workers and unpaid family carers speak out against government plans to ‘fix’ social care