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Unite the Union, commonly known as Unite, is a British and Irish trade union which was formed on 1 May 2007 by the merger of Amicus and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). Along with Unison , Unite is one of the two largest trade unions in the UK, with over 1.2 million members in construction, manufacturing, transport, logistics ...
Research conducted by trade union Unite has found that over two ... Rachel Reeves revealed the change amongst several cost-cutting measures in July last year, designed to plug the £22bn “black ...
At the end of November, lawyers for Unite, the trade union, asked the High Court for an urgent judicial review of the policy. Unite, which has 200,000 who are affected by the cuts, say that the government should have been more thorough in gathering evidence of the likely impact prior to committing to the changes.
On 5 August, the Unite union announced that 1,900 workers at Felixstowe Docks, one of the UK's largest ports, would stage an eight-day strike from 21 August, after rejecting a 7% pay rise from the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company. Unite described the pay offer as "significantly below" the rate of inflation. [104]
Members of Unite in Coventry have been on strike for weeks in a long-running row over pay for refuse collection workers. Unite union issues funding warning over dispute with Labour-run council ...
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland—where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union [note 1] (ATGWU)—with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the world).
Unison (stylised as UNISON) is a British trade union.Along with Unite, Unison is one of the two largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, with over 1.2 million members who work predominantly in public services, including local government, education, health and outsourced services.
In January 2021, Unite's executive counsel convened to discuss cost overruns on a union-funded building project undertaken by Paul Flanagan, a close personal associate of McCluskey; the construction works, which were originally supposed to cost £7 million pounds, had reached a cost of £96.5 million by January 2021, with an estimated £15 ...