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Unite: West Midlands police authority delay decision on privatisation
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has welcomed the West Midlands police authority's decision to delay a crucial vote on whether to proceed with privatisation in order to allow public consultation on the plans.
Unite: Tax avoidance, strike breaking, human rights abuses: The organisations bidding to profit from West Midlands police privatisation
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has lifted the lid on the activities and record of some of the organisations attempting to profit from our police service (see notes to editors).
Unite: "Beecroft is a venture capitalist who profits from sub prime loans to needy people. He hasn't got a single idea how to create jobs"
Unite has branded the Beecroft report 'the worst attack on our employment rights in a generation' and has urged the Business Secretary, Vincent Cable to do everything in his power to stop the recommendations ever becoming law.
Unite: Police Privatisation 999
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Unite: Crime reporting will fall if police service privatised
New survey and film reinforce need to ditch police privatisation for good
Queen’s Speech shows deluded government devoid of ideas says Unite
Britain’s largest union, Unite branded today’s (Wednesday, 9 May) Queen’s Speech, as devoid of ideas and accused the government of being delusional if it thinks that making it easier to fire people will kick start the economy back into life.
Unite: London's vote could spur end to nation's austerity nightmare
With under one week to go until the most important election for London in a generation, the leader of the country's biggest union, Unite, is urging Londoners to put the national interest along side their concerns for the capital when they go to the polls on 3 May.
Unite: Recession and budget is proof Osborne is not up to the job
Unite, Britain's biggest union, says Britain's return to recession and the government's disastrous budget is proof that George Osborne is not up to the job.
Unite: Disabled Remploy workers demonstrate in London and Sheffield in fight to save their jobs
Hundreds of disabled workers will demonstrate tomorrow (Friday, 20 April) against cuts outside the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) offices in London and Sheffield, and also outside Parliament.
Unite: Health workers to step up pensions’ fight on 10 May
Up to 100,000 members of Unite, working for the NHS will be staging protests and industrial action on Thursday, 10 May over attacks to their pensions which could see them working until they are 68.
Unite rules out Easter tanker strikes to focus on talks
Unite today (Friday, 30 March) ruled out Easter strike action by tanker drivers in a bid to focus on talks. The announcement came as the union confirmed it was ready to start substantive talks through ACAS as soon as possible.
Unite: Government must act to get Project Horizon back on track
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has urged the government to ensure Project Horizon gets back on track to ensure security of supply and the creation of thousands of skilled jobs.
Unite welcomes prospect of ACAS talks
Unite today (Wednesday, 28 March) welcomed the prospect of meaningful talks through ACAS in a bid to resolve a dispute involving tanker drivers over minimum standards and growing instability in the oil industry.
Unite: Open letter to Ed Davey about tanker driver dispute
Britain’s largest union, Unite, has today (Tuesday, 27 March) urged Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, to intervene in the tanker driver dispute over minimum standards and growing instability in the oil industry. Read the letter here.
Unite: GSK’s investment welcome, but government must do more and urgently invest in manufacturing
Unite, the UK’s largest union, has welcomed the news from pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today (Thursday, 22 March) that it will invest £500m at its various manufacturing sites across the UK, creating 1,000 new jobs.
Unite: BAE workers take battle to save Brough to shareholders
Workers at BAE systems' Brough site, home of the Hawk trainer jet, have vowed to fight the company's decision to end manufacturing at the site and take the battle to the company's shareholders.
Unite: How does making it easier to sack people, reduce unemployment?
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has accused the Tory-led government of trying to sneak through a major attack on employment rights tomorrow (13 March), which means workers will have no protection from unfair dismissal for two years.
As deaths in UK docks increase, Unite declare it is "ludicrous to downgrade dock safety regulations"
As deaths at UK docks increase Unite, the UK’s largest union, finds it ‘ludicrous’ that the government has not only downgraded the safety level of docks, but now proposes to scrap all dock safety regulations – which the union believes to be a ‘recipe for disaster’.
Unite: Liberal Democrat MPs ‘insult’ man with HIV who raised concerns over the ‘privatisation’ health bill
Two Liberal Democrat MPs have been accused of insulting a businessman, who is HIV positive, after he protested at their party’s stance over the controversial Health and Social Care bill.
Unite: Risk register: Stop hiding in plain sight!
Unite, Britain's biggest union, says it is time for the government to treat the people of this country with respect and publish the risk register now.
Government decision to sack disabled workers "barbaric" says Unite
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has called the UK government's decision to sack over 1,000 disabled workers at Remploy ‘Barbaric’.
Ed Milliband is right on manufacturing, says Unite
Commenting on Ed Milliband's speech to the EEF's manufacturing conference today (6 March 2012), Unite's assistant general secretary, Tony Burke said:
Nissan's new model is a boost for British manufacturing
Nissan's announcement for a new model called the 'Invitation' to be built in Sunderland is a boost for skilled jobs and a lifeline for the local economy says, Unite, Britain's biggest union.
Unite: Brough closure a "disgraceful dereliction of duty to a world class workforce"
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has branded BAE Systems' decision to end manufacturing at Brough in Yorkshire, as a "disgraceful dereliction of duty to a world class workforce".
Unite reaction to the launch of the Crossrail contract
Commenting on today's launch of the tender process to supply trains for the £1bn Crossrail contract, Unite's assistant general secretary, Diana Holland said:
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