Category: news releases

Unite the union yesterday (Wednesday, 7th January) held a meeting via videolink with the American management of Flexible Ducting based in Milngavie, Glasgow to state the case for retaining the business and a 'significant proportion' of the jobs.

Over 800 Unite Fox’s biscuit workers are determined to do ‘everything they can’ to make sure their town of Uttoxeter is chosen for the brand’s new ‘super-site’ as a three month wait until the plant's future is made clear begins.

Unite, the UK’s largest trade union, has expressed concern that Barclays is to make 410 job cuts in Cheshire, Northampton and London. The jobs will be lost from the bank’s IT function.

Derek Simpson, joint leader of Unite will today (Wednesday, 7th January) join Gordon Brown as he visits Rolls Royce in Derby as part of the Prime Minister's tour of Britain.

Unite, the trade union which represents the majority of the 800 workers at Waterford Crystal’s Kilbarry plant has met again with the receiver appointed to the company and will hold general meetings with members next Wednesday, January 14th to present a clearer picture of events as they are unfolding.

Unite, UK’s biggest union, is angered by Tulip’s proposals to close its factory at Bromborough with the loss of 303 jobs.

Unite Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke and BPIF Chief Executive Michael Johnson have written to Chancellor Alistair Darling to voice concerns with regard to the unhelpful attitude of banks to small print businesses.