Author: Unite news releases

Staff to protest outside the Treasury select committee hearing.

Unite is calling on ministers to give the voluntary sector the same concentrated attention that has been given to bailing out the financial sector.

Unite's public sector forum has voted to take whatever action is necessary in opposition to the imposed public sector pension levy in Ireland.

Unite is mounting a vigorous campaign to resist over 150 redundancies announced by Cambridge University Press.

Waiters and waitresses from across the hospitality industry will be demanding the government takes action to ensure they get 100 per cent of tips as the government consultation into tips and service charges closes.

Unite, the UK’s biggest union warn the Uttoxeter Fox’s biscuit faithful not to be hoodwinked by shameful Tory scheming

Unite, the largest trade union representing workers at the ESB, has attacked Environment Minister John Gormley over comments made yesterday criticising the payment of an agreed wage rise.

Moves by Ford to cut around 850 jobs across its UK plants, and freeze a negotiated pay deal, have today (Thursday) been denounced as a 'betrayal' of a loyal workforce by the workers' union Unite, which is warning the car giant that cutting workers' pay to meet redundancy payments could lead to industrial action.

On a visit to BMW in Oxford today (5th February), to meet workers at the plant, Derek Simpson, joint leader of Unite, will call on the government to introduce an "old banger bonus" scheme, similar to the successful German scheme as part of a comprehensive package to support the UK car industry.

Welcoming the decision, Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson said, "This is a good deal which establishes the principle of fair access for UK workers on British construction projects. We now expect other companies in the construction industry to level the playing field for UK workers. The workers involved in the unofficial strike can now get back to work.