UCU today said the news that Corporation Tax is to be slashed from 28% to 24% made a mockery of the coalition government's claims that 'we are all in this together'.
TRANSPORT UNION RMT today slammed what it described as 'the ConDem's budget for the rich' - warning of widespread community and industrial resistance once people realise the full scale of the impact of the Government's cuts plans for public services and the true cost for jobs and standards of living.
Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget Statement today, John Hannett, Usdaw General Secretary said: “While we need to study the small print of the budget in further detail, this looks like a budget that has failed the fairness test and is going to hit our members and their families hard....
The shopworkers union Usdaw has welcomed the Coalition Government’s decision to accept the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission and increase all three rates of the National Minimum Wage....
Commentating on George Osborne’s Emergency Budget which was delivered today (June 22nd), Alan Ritchie General Secretary of Construction Union UCATT, said:
Unite has advised BA that it has until next Tuesday, June 29th, to demonstrate that it is willing to negotiate a solution to the fresh issues between the parties - or it will ballot its members for strike action.
Unite members who were due to take strike action on Thursday at Cereal Partners UK have called off one of the three planned 48 hour strikes following a last minute offer by the company.
Unite is extremely alarmed that AEGON has today informed staff of plans to make cost savings of 25 per cent in the UK arm of the business.
Unite members working at Cereal Partners UK, a joint venture by Nestlé and General Mills in Trowbridge, will take part in a series of 48 hour strikes beginning at 6am on Thursday 24 June in a row over a pay-freeze.
Unite members who were due to take strike action on Thursday at Cereal Partners UK have called off one of the three planned 48 hour strikes following a last minute offer by the company.