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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
If successful this would create an international "super union" with more than 3 million members, more able to pressure multinational companies and their managers. [12] [13] [14] In 2008 these talks resulted in the creation of Workers Uniting, a union which Unite and the USW are constituent members of. [15] Unite was officially established on 1 ...
Unite members must legally give seven days' prior notification of a strike; no such notification had been given as of 30 March. Panic buying and long queues at garages were reported in Banbury, Christchurch [10] and Crawley. [11] The Unite trades union threatened a strike over health and safety standards earlier in March 2012. Unite represents ...
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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).