Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation –...
4 min
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
Number of people on UK company payrolls has plummeted by 800k since pandemic began
6 min
Monday, April 19th, 2021
Devonport naval base faces more disruption as tugboat crew to strike again for 24 hours in rostering row
3 min
Monday, April 19th, 2021
Independent inquiry into NHS lobbying urgently needed, says Unite
4 min
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Staff members at The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Unite being their recognised trade union to represent ...
3 min
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Nearly 300 employees at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) site in Banbury, Oxfordshire, will start a continuous overtime ban from Saturday 1 May over ‘fire and reh...
4 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
The increase in domestic abuse across the general population caused by the pressures of the pandemic has prompted Unite the union to write to all 32 London boro...
4 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Londoners face fresh public transport disruption as Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by London United, a subsidiary of the F...
4 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
The revelations over scandal-hit Greensill Capital and the role of David Cameron should set alarm bells ringing about the accelerating pace of NHS privatisation...
4 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has warned that the failure of many businesses to provide adequate notice of shift patterns is damaging workers’ health and destroying family lives.
4 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has urged the government to carefully examine the pitfalls, as well as the advantages, of requiring care home staff to be compulsorily vaccinated for Covi...
3 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite today (Thursday April 15) called on the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to publicly back a declaration to ou...
3 min
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Yesterday (April 14) the Unite Executive Council set in hand the election process for a new Unite general secretary.
2 min
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Pubs and restos are now open outdoors – but 600k jobs in industry have gone
5 min
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Strikes at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies have been called off after a deal was reached to end ‘fire and rehire’ threats that would have resulted in its ...
3 min
Monday, April 12th, 2021
More than 4,000 bus drivers working for Metroline in London have overwhelmingly voted for strike action over the controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy, Unite sa...
4 min
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Amazon urged to commit to declaration of neutrality amid Unite campaign to give Amazon workers a real voice
3 min
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Commenting on the government’s plan to force holidaymakers to pay around £120 each for Covid tests to travel abroad this summer, Unite assistant general secreta...
3 min
