Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2021, McCluskey announced his retirement as general secretary of Unite after ten years in the role. [18] The union's left-wing United Left faction held a hustings and ballot to determine a single candidate for the faction, which was won by the union's assistant general secretary Steve Turner. The other participant, Howard Beckett, continued ...
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 ...
He was General Secretary of Unite the Union, the largest affiliate and a major donor to the Labour Party. [2] As a young adult, he spent some years working in the Liverpool Docks for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company [3] prior to becoming a full-time union official for the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU) in 1979.
Scottish Water staff to ballot on strike action. January 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM ... Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary, said: "Scottish Water has failed to make our members a fair and decent pay ...
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham and Scottish secretary Derek Thomson both called for action from ministers at Westminster and Holyrood. Government must be ‘forced to act’ to save ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The ballot of both unions' membership during February and early March 2007, approved the merger. The result of the ballot was announced on 8 March 2007: 86.4 per cent of T&G members and 70.1 per cent of Amicus members voted to support the merger, from a turnout of 27% in both cases. [5] [6] [7]
However, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, who has previously called for the party to offer strengthened employment rights like an outright ban on fire-and-rehire, cancelled planned talks ...