The TUC is distributing thousands of pamphlets with the message that ‘Cuts are not the cure' in the run-up to the March for the Alternative – the London demonstration on Saturday 26 March – which is set to be the biggest TUC event for decades.
Text of the statement agreed by the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Welsh Trades Union Congress, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Trades Union Congress at their recent meeting in Glasgow.
Unite, the UK’s largest trade union, has called for the government to make more funding available to make manufacturing apprenticeships more attractive to youngsters to ensure that young people are attracted to the manufacturing sector, or risk facing a skills gap.
The shopworkers Union Usdaw has welcomed today's decision by MSPs to reject Scottish Government plans to introduce a Large Retailer Levy, the so called 'Big Shops Tax'.
Uniteis to ballot nearly 1,100 members working for Manchester city council on whether they wish to take industrial action over plans to axe 2,100 jobs.
The news that Barclays is to cut 285 staff and send the work they do abroad will devastate the workforce.
Unite will be seeking urgent talks with Liverpool council to try to protect these jobs and vital services.
Unite has today blamed weak employment legislation for allowing Pfizer to close its world class R&D site at short notice.
Unite, the UK’s biggest union, has today (Wednesday, 2 February) submitted a pay claim on behalf of 154,000 agricultural workers in England and Wales to the Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), calling for a substantial counter-inflationary pay rise and a public holiday to commemorate Workers' Memorial Day on 28 April.
Responding to the announcement that the Forestry Commission plans to cut hundreds of jobs on the day MPs were debating selling off forests and woodlands and ahead of a PCS rally outside the...