Unite Follow

The rift and regroupment between union leaders and the Labour Party leadership will rumble on over the summer.

Workers employed by IT contractors Capita struck against a real terms pay cut at six financial companies around Britain on Friday of last week.

Around 150 workers in the Unite union struck for three days at One Housing Group sites across London last week.

The Unite union’s election for a new Executive Council member in the London and Eastern region is set to start on Tuesday of next week.

Some 150 First South East and Midlands bus drivers have voted by 90 percent to strike in Worcestershire and Herefordshire.

A committee of MPs investigating the blacklisting of union members has referred the Crossrail project and the construction companies Bam Ferrovial Kier to the government for further investigation.

Workers at housing association One Housing Group were set to strike from Wednesday to Friday of this week.

Laboratory biomedical scientists and support workers in the Unite union struck for on Tuesday of last week. Their employer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, is imposing new working patterns. 

Pathology laboratory staff at Leeds teaching hospitals struck on Tuesday of this week and plan to begin an overtime ban.

Refuse workers in two south east London councils will no longer be striking next week. They are members of the Unite union employed by Veolia in Croydon and Bromley.

Workers at the University of Liverpool were set to protest outside the honorary graduates celebration dinner on Wednesday of this week.

Around 40 workers at Crown Speciality Packaging in Bootle, Merseyside, struck on Friday of last week after the company dropped an agreed pay rise.