Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive paymen...
6 min
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compa...
4 min
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.
4 min
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Ministers need to put their foot on the accelerator to get a deal with the EU that safeguards the UK automotive industry – employing about 800,000 workers direc...
5 min
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Angry lorry drivers have accused government minister Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of ‘blame shifting’ as he tells them to prepare paperwor...
5 min
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Unite has launched an international campaign today (September 9) to stop the owners of the Manchester bus company Go North West from using Covid-19 as cover for...
4 min
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Aviation workers from two companies which have made brutal cuts on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic are bringing their call for the government to provide long-...
5 min
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
The future of the UK’s world class base of highly skilled workers is now at great risk, Unite, other unions and employers warned yesterday (August 31).
6 min
Friday, August 28th, 2020
“Labour believes in our incredible workforce so why can’t the government? It’s simple – building our Royal Naval Fleet Support Ships here in UK shipyards is es...
8 min
Friday, August 28th, 2020
Thirteen quid a day. Not a lot really when you take your bills, outgoings, kids’ school uniforms, gas – not to mention food – into account. It all adds up to ea...
6 min
Friday, August 21st, 2020
After 35 staff tested positive for the virus the pork meat processing plant will now close for a deep clean this weekend. It’s understood testing and tracing wi...
6 min
Friday, August 7th, 2020
Today August 7, more than 6,000 BA staff - 4,000 of them being cabin crew, are being forced to leave British Airways, and while the remaining workforce will soo...
6 min
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Today (July 29) it was the TUC’s turn to join the ever growing chorus of those highly concerned about pushing extremely vulnerable workers back to the workplace...
6 min
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Despite its’ actions and plans to sack 12,000 staff and to cut the wages of a further 30,000 workers being roundly condemned by Unite, the public, the Labour Pa...
5 min
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
According to the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), figures released today (July 30) show UK automotive production during the first half of 202...
5 min
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Hospitality workers ‘won’t be holding their breath’ over latest gov’t promises on tips legislation
6 min
Monday, July 20th, 2020
“Independent, credible studies such as ones by the University College London and the University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine hav...
7 min
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Moving to the country might sound idyllic – but poverty in a rural setting is no picnic. We investigate
9 min
