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Leicester city council scraps workplace parking levy after Unite campaign

Leicester city council’s plans to introduce a workplace parking levy have been dropped following a campaign by Unite, the UK’s leading union. The levy would have resulted in businesses with 10 or more employees being charged £550 a year for each parking space.  Unite argued that costs would most likely be passed onto already hard-pressed […]

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Unite vows to defend workers from Tory attack on the right to strike.

Unite vows to defend workers from Tory attack on the right to strike A “predictable” attack from a Government that wants the country to take a pay cut Commenting on the transport secretary’s plans to introduce the Transport Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is just another predictable attack on trade unions from […]

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Unite leader says any attempt to make trade unions illegal will be met with “fierce, prolonged resistance”

The leader of Unite the union has hit out at proposals from a Conservative leadership candidate as an attempt to “outlaw strike action“ in this country. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Let’s be clear Liz Truss’s madcap proposals are an attempt to outlaw strike action and effective trade unions. “This so-called manifesto is a declaration of war […]

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Shapps pledges to drive workers back to the workhouse

In the latest Tory anti-union attacks transport minister Shapps pledges to drive workers back to the workhouse. Today (Wednesday 27 July) in a lengthy interview with the Daily Telegraph – where most proposed government legislation seems to be announced these days – transport minister Grant Shapps announced the latest plans in the government’s campaign to outlaw unions. […]

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Human Rights Act. Human Rights, Act!

Despite advice, reviews and reports continuing to support the Human Rights Act (incorporating the European convention on human rights), this finger-wagging government seems to believe that it can shore up support by rolling back these rights from those it wants to target. That means, potentially, anyone at all that wants and needs to challenge those […]

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Stagecoach, workers win!

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/january/stagecoach-cambus-workers-vote-to-accept-a-significant-pay-rise-says-unite/ Top Bus News! About 400 workers at Cambus – Stagecoach’s Cambridge division – who have not had a pay rise since April 2019, have voted for a new pay package which sees increases of between 7.4 and 12.2 per cent over an 18 month period, Unite the union said today (Friday 28 January).  Unite […]

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Cambridge university maintenance staff being lined up for ‘misguided’ outsourcing deal, warns Unite

Wednesday 10 November 2021 Salami Slicing The University of Cambridge, one of the wealthiest and most illustrious institutions in the country, has been accused of ‘salami slicing’ over its plans to outsource up to 50 maintenance and estates’ workers to private companies. Unite the union said that if the proposal was completed by 1 April next year […]

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Outsourcing News

Barts under pressure as Serco cancels its contract with the NHS Trust on day Unite confirms strike ballot Serco has today (3 November) confirmed that its current Soft Services contract with Barts Health NHS Trust will end on 30 April 2023. Unite is demanding that there must be “no more contracts for outsourcing privateers that put profit before people”. Last July, due to Unite pressure, Serco lost […]

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Sharon Graham, UNITE’s New General Secretary.

Unite the union has today (Wednesday) announced the final results of its members’ vote for each of the three candidates which is as follows:  Sharon Graham –  46,696 votes Steve Turner – 41,833 votes Gerard Coyne – 35,334 votes. A total of 124,147 votes were cast. Sharon Graham will succeed Len McCluskey who has been general secretary of the […]

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Election Update 3/5/21

Cambridge University Branch, Nominates, Sharon Graham. At the Nomination meeting on 2/5/21, Cambridge University Branch Voted to nominate Sharon Graham.