Advice, help, and workplace news. 18 June 2022 – TUC MARCH & RALLY for CHANGE London & Eastern Region members – we’re counting on you! This is the first major demonstration by the trade union movement in many years. And it’s taking place in London – a tube or bus ride away for many. Start spreading the word. Get together with your workmates, family, and friends, and let’s make our region’s presence felt.  Free Unite transport is available from the Eastern part of the region. London members to find their own way to the assembly point. Please email [email protected] to […]

National Pay Negotiation for the 2022-2023 pay award has already started. The initial proposal is 3%, which isn’t good enough to cover the costs of living in Cambridge with inflation being over 8% and rising. Also, we workers at Cambridge University lost 20% of our pay in the last 12 years, this means that experienced staff is now working 1 day for free, and the newer workforce can’t afford what their older colleagues could afford 12 years ago. Unite is saying enough is enough! Our Cambridge members deserve better! Prices are going up at unprecedented speed, the wages must start […]

Let’s face it, we are not going to get a decent pay rise this year unless we fight for it! The rise in inflation across all measures continues with 30-year highs on both the RPI (7.8%) & CPI (5.5%) Figures show that real pay is plummeting – a fall of 3.8% on RPI real earnings on the year (the worst decline for 11 years) and 1.8% on CPI (the worst decline for 8 years). Let’s face it, we are not going to get a decent pay rise this year unless we fight for it. We haven’t had a decent rise […]

Some recent pay dispute wins, if we fight we can win! Lancashire bus strikes called off after drivers accept improved pay offer The threat of strike action involving bus drivers employed by Stagecoach in south Lancashire has ended after members of Unite, the UK’s leading union accepted a vastly improved pay offer./news-events/news/2021/october/lancashire-bus-strikes-called-off-after-drivers-accept-improved-pay-offer/ Strike fears on Manchester Metrolink ended as pay offer accepted Strike action planned for the Manchester Metrolink tram system, which would have resulted in severe disruption to travel throughout Greater Manchester, has been called off, as a result of members of Unite the UK’s leading union, accepting a […]