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FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Youth workers rally to protect services for young people
Protesters and young people furious about youth service cuts drowned out a Birmingham City Council cabinet meeting today. The protesters gathered at Central Library before marching the short distance to the Council House accompanied by a backdrop of drums and horns, ... Read more
FEBRUARY 08, 2024
Birmingham council protest over cuts to city’s youth services
Protesters will march with drums from the Library of Birmingham to a rally outside Council House on Tuesday (13 February) over plans to slash funding for the city’s youth services in half. When: Meeting 0900 hrs 13 February at Birmingham Library ... Read more
AUGUST 04, 2023
West Norfolk’s largest social housing provider hit by pay strikes
Freebridge Community Housing paying poverty wages despite £3.6m surplus Nearly 60 Freebridge Community Housing workers will strike over poverty pay, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (Friday). Many of the workers, who perform a variety of roles, including in cleaning and ... Read more
APRIL 19, 2023
St Mungo’s strike suspended following new offer
Strike action due to begin on Monday 24 April has been suspended and a new pay offer will now be put to members. The four-week strike followed a ballot of over 500 workers and returned a 93% vote for strike action. Dedicated ... Read more
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Unite pledges to back local government workers battling for better terms and conditions
Unite, the UK’s leading union, has pledged to step up the fight for better pay, terms and condition for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and is gearing up for fresh campaigns in councils. Unite’s local government members ... Read more
JULY 21, 2022
March and Demonstration for action on homeless crisis
Unite the union is lending its support to a demonstration and march in Belfast called by The People’s Kitchen and a wider coalition of homeless charities in response to the recent spate of deaths on the streets. The initiative has ... Read more
MAY 24, 2022
Join us on Saturday 18 June at 11am and march to demand action to tackle the cost of living crisis. Inflation is at its highest level in 30 years. Prices are rocketing. Six in ten people are struggling to make ... Read more
MAY 10, 2022
Unite respond to Queen's speech
In response to the Queen’s Speech 2022, the leader of the country’s leading union has hit out at the lack of action to address the cost of living crisis. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Workers and communities are suffering. We are ... Read more
MARCH 21, 2022
Unite ‘Red Box’ protest outside parliament
Members of Unite Community will head to parliament on Wednesday, the day of the chancellor’s spring statement, to protest at Rishi Sunak's failure to provide meaningful help for the UK’s poorest households through the deepest cost of living crisis for ... Read more
MARCH 02, 2022
DCMS Youth Policy Review published ... but falls short
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its review of youth policy which it says includes plans to encourage more people into the youth work sector, better co-ordinate funding across government departments, improve access to services ... Read more
DECEMBER 01, 2021
YOUNG PEOPLE URGED TO FIGHT FOR GREATER INVESTMENT IN YOUTH SERVICES
The Youth Ask campaign is encouraging young people are being encouraged to write to the Prime Minister and call for greater investment in youth work and describes the offer for youth services made in October’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) as ... Read more
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Animal charity to hold ballot for strike action
Staff at the long-established Mayhew animal charity in North West London, patron the Duchess of Sussex, are holding a ballot for industrial action over staffing levels and trade union recognition. The ballot for strike action and industrial action short of a ... Read more
NOVEMBER 08, 2021
North West housing association workers begin strike ballot over pay
Members of Unite employed by Onward Housing and Hyndburn Homes Repairs Ltd have begun balloting for strike action over pay. The 230 workers at the housing association, who are based at depots in Accrington, Bolton, Manchester, Liverpool, Runcorn and Stockport, primarily undertake ... Read more
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Homeless young people and care leavers hit hard after £20 uplift cut
New research by Centrepoint has found that young people with a history of homelessness and those who have left the care system are going to bed hungry since the government cut the £20 universal credit uplift with vulnerable under 25s ... Read more
AUGUST 26, 2021
Growing numbers of British children are unhappy with their lives
A report from the Children’s Society shows that modern life continues to erode the happiness of young people. Dissatisfied with school, friendships and how they look, children deserve drastic change. The tenth annual Good Childhood Report found that 7% of 10 ... Read more
AUGUST 12, 2021
London Youth Services Funding Cut By £240m Since 2011 Riots
Green Party London Assembly member Sian Berry finds that youth service funding across London as a whole has been cut by 44 per cent in the last decade. London’s youth service cuts 2011-2021: a blighted generation finds that youth service funding ... Read more
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Into the clutches of poverty and hunger
Growing calls to cancel £20-a-week Universal Credit cut as new research shows 420k children will be plunged into poverty if extra payment is axed Pressure on chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift continues to mount as the ... Read more
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
GOVERNMENT USES DIVIDE AND RULE TACTICS WITH PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FREEZE
Unite have strongly criticised the government’s decision to freeze pay for public sector workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In his one-year Spending Review announced today, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the government could not “justify across the board pay rises” due to ... Read more
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Think tank report touting public sector pay freeze ‘an insult’, says Unite
Public sector employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has not learnt the lessons of austerity, Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said today (Friday 20 ... Read more
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Unite campaign to save RSPCA jobs
Unite has launched its campaign to make donors and the public aware of what is happening at one of the country’s best loved and well-supported national institutions. Unite is urging the Chief Executive of the RSPCA, Chris Sherwood, to get around ... Read more
JUNE 18, 2020
‘Excessive’ RSPCA proposals to axe 300 jobs will be ‘challenged’
Proposals by the RSPCA to make nearly a fifth of staff redundant amid the pandemic have been described as being ‘excessive’ and will be ‘challenged’. Unite is demanding that the animal welfare charity enter into a comprehensive consultation to minimise any potential redundancies ... Read more
OCTOBER 24, 2019
ONS show highest year-on-year increase in homeless deaths
In 2018, there were an estimated 726 deaths of homeless people in England and Wales, 129 (22%) more deaths than in 2017 when there were 597 estimated deaths. The increase is statistically significant and represents the largest year-to-year increase in ... Read more
MAY 28, 2019
Tackling serious violence needs real investment in preventative services!
Unite has submitted its response to the Home Office's draft plans for a new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence. Whilst Unite is supportive in principle with taking a public health approach to tackling serious ... Read more