In a positive and significant effort to combat the serious impact of the deteriorating global economy on British Airways, Unite has proposed a major package of negotiated efficiencies, temporary cost savings and deferred payments worth millions over the next two years to the airline.
Unite has condemned the decision of Nortel and its administrators Ernst & Young to sack over 200 people out of its 2,000 UK workforce on the spot without consultation or redundancy pay, predominantly in Northern Ireland, Maidenhead and Harlow.
Unite has slammed London mayor Boris Johnson for his short-sighted and hasty decision to cancel the Rise festival on the basis of what he deemed to be a lack of 'major sponsorship'.
Unite has presented the company with a series of proposals aimed at maintaining employment for all members at Dubai Ports World.
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has today issued a stark warning that it will not tolerate employers who attempt to use the credit crunch as an excuse to attack workers' pensions.
An attack by the National Secular Society (NSS) on the NHS chaplaincy service has been described as 'erroneous and simplistic' by Unite, the largest union in the country.
The Unite trade union has dismissed today's budget as doing nothing to address the underlying crisis of job losses. It has also called for a general election so that alternative and better options can be put to the people.
Unite, the UK's biggest union, today (Tuesday) welcomed the news that the European Investment Bank has approved significant funding for two UK-based car makers in Britain, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan - but warned that UK government help is urgently needed to support the industry in the here and now.
Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, said: "The news that 4,500 RBS staff in the UK are to lose their jobs is truly devastating. Unite is appalled that thousands of people, who form the backbone of the RBS operations, are to be made redundant.
In a meeting with Derek Simpson, Unite's joint general secretary and John Fleming, Ford's European Chairman today, Ford were urged to honour its moral obligations to the workers at Visteon, who were laid off with only a few minutes' notice and without their rightful redundancy pay.