Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, said: “Unite sees this announcement as the first test for the newly formed Lloyds Banking Group to demonstrate its commitment to avoid compulsory redundancies."
The Unite trade union, as part of the employee works council, expects to meet with management of Lufthansa Technik Airmotive in the coming days.
Unite's joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said: "Alistair Darling had to deliver the toughest budget in decades but he has positioned Labour as the party for jobs and social justice while exposing the Tories for being the party of cuts and inequality.
The costly, creeping privatisation of the public sector, particularly the NHS, should be the first candidate for the so-called ‘efficiency savings’ announced in the budget.
It is with the greatest sadness that I must advise you that Jack Jones, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, died late yesterday.
The costly, creeping privatisation of the public sector, particularly the NHS, should be the first candidate for the so-called ‘efficiency savings’ announced in the budget.
Unite members at United Biscuits’ Liverpool Binns Road site are taking their fight to parliament to stop plans to move their jobs to India
Unite, Britain's biggest union, is calling on the government to put manufacturing at the heart of the budget.
NHS ‘whistle blowers’ need a safe way to expose bad practice without jeopardising their careers, Unite, the largest union in the country, said today
Workers at United Biscuits’ Liverpool Binns Road site have kick-started a petition to urge United Biscuits not to go ahead with plans to move 170 jobs to India.