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FEBRUARY 01, 2024
Leeds housing charity refuse to recognise Unite for pay negotiations
Unite blast Leeds housing charity Gipsil for refusing to recognise Unite for pay negotiations and will take them to the Central Arbitration Committee over lack of proper union recognition. Unite, the UK’s leading union, has blasted Leeds housing support charity Gipsil ... Read more
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Hundreds of Oxfam workers to strike for first time in charity’s history
Nearly 500 Oxfam GB workers are to strike for 17 days throughout December for the first time in the charity’s 81-year history, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today (Thursday). Low paid Oxfam staff, who work across the charity’s shops, offices and ... Read more
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Oxfam workers poised to strike for first time over poverty pay hypocrisy
Workers at anti-poverty charity using foodbanks due to low pay Hundreds of struggling Oxfam workers across the UK are balloting for strike action for the first time after rejecting a substandard pay offer. This is despite Oxfam having huge reserves and ... Read more
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Faith workers bearing the brunt of cost-of-living crisis
Unite survey shows clergy struggling to pay bills and relying on food banks A survey by Unite, Britain’s leading trade union, has shown that faith workers across various religions and denominations are struggling with the current cost of living crisis. Unite’s members ... Read more
AUGUST 24, 2023
Autumn council strikes announced
Unite has announced that its members in an initial 23 local authorities will begin taking strike action from next week in a dispute over pay. Unite members have overwhelmingly rejected the local authority employers’ pay offer of just £1,925, a poorer ... 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
JUNE 28, 2023
St Mungo’s workers stage sit-in outside the charity’s corporate style headquarters
Unite members from St Mungos will be staging a sit-in outside the charity’s corporate style headquarters (St Mungo’s head office in Tower Hill, 3 Thomas More St, E1W 1YW) tomorrow from 12 midday. Workers on indefinite strike at St Mungo’s will ... Read more
JUNE 26, 2023
St Mungo’s workers to begin indefinite strike
From tomorrow (Tuesday 27 June) workers at St Mungo’s will stage an unprecedented indefinite strike accusing management of a shocking dereliction of duty towards the homeless and the charity’s own staff. This momentous decision has been provoked by the ongoing indifference ... Read more
MAY 30, 2023
Month long strike begins at St Mungo's
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s begin a month-long strike otoday in a dispute over pay. Members of Unite who work at the organisation will mount picket lines outside its head office in Tower Hill in London and in Brighton, Bristol ... Read more
MAY 09, 2023
St Mungos workers reject pay offer
Pitiful new pay offer fails to prevent month long strike at homeless Charity St Mungo’s which will begin on 30 May and end on 26 June. A month long strike by workers at the homeless charity St Mungo’s will go ahead ... Read more
APRIL 24, 2023
Unite members at the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) have returned a mandate for strike action with 68% voting to strike on a 78% turnout. Workers rejected the pay offer of just 3% after years of pay being squeezed and now the ... 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
MARCH 06, 2023
Rebellion at St Mungo’s homeless charity by underpaid and fed-up workers!
Dedicated charity workers who are fed up with greed at the top of their homeless charity while they struggle to make ends meet are now being balloted for strike action. With the St Mungo's CEO paid more than £189,000 (according to ... Read more
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Outsourced Harlow housing repair and grounds workers to strike over pay
Over 300 staff responsible for Harlow council housing stock and cleaning and maintenance of council grounds and buildings will strike over pay in late February. The workers, members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, are employed by HTS, which is a wholly owned subsidiary ... Read more
FEBRUARY 02, 2023
Staff anger reaching tipping point at the FCA
Management refuse to discuss rock bottom morale and poor pay. Regulator faces crisis with over half considering leaving the FCA. Exodus of experienced staff raises serious questions about the regulator’s ability to keep consumers safe. Unite, the UK’s leading union, has today (1 ... Read more
JANUARY 12, 2023
Shelter pay dispute ends as workers receive improved offer
The long running pay dispute at housing and homelessness charity Shelter has ended after workers accepted a vastly improved pay offer. Over 600 members of Unite, the UK’s leading union, took strike action last December over pay. During the strike action talks ... Read more
JANUARY 11, 2023
As industrial action by housing workers enters its twenty-third week without resolution, Unite demands Department for Communities intervention Thousands of social housing tenants are left without needed repair and maintenance work as a result of management intransigence. Unite the union has written ... Read more
JANUARY 11, 2023
Union leader brands Minimum Services Bill as “another dangerous gimmick”
Union leader brands Minimum Services Bill as “another dangerous gimmick” Grant Shapps is, as usual, economical with the truth. The evidence from abroad clearly shows this kind of legislation only forces unions to use other tactics, inflaming and prolonging disputes. Commenting on the ... Read more
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Youth Workers JNC Pay Agreement
The JNC for Youth and Community Workers has reached an agreement on a pay award for 2022. A pay agreement was reluctantly reached for Youth and Community Workers which is as follows: An increase of £1925 on all other spinal column points ... Read more
DECEMBER 02, 2022
Shelter workers to begin strike action in pay dispute
Shelter staff work tirelessly to keep roofs over people’s heads. But senior management’s refusal to make a decent pay award means that soon, some Shelter staff will be facing the very real threat of homelessness themselves. Over 600 members of Unite, ... Read more
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Shelter workers announce two weeks of strike action in pay dispute
Over 500 workers at the housing charity Shelter will stage a two week strike next month, in response to the organisation’s management attempting to impose a real terms pay cut on its staff. The workers, who are based across the UK, ... Read more
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Unite prepare to formally ballot members at the Regulator of Social Housing
Unite at The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) are now preparing to formally ballot its members for industrial action over pay after senior management attempted to push through modelling options on the basis of a 3% on average pay award ... Read more
NOVEMBER 09, 2022
Inaction by board leaves social housing tenants facing huge backlog of repairs and improvements
4,000 tenants have been left without much needed housing improvements and almost 400 houses left empty as a result of the inaction of the board of the NI Housing Executive. Unite members, who are on the thirteenth week of strike action, ... Read more
NOVEMBER 07, 2022
Unrealistic workloads force community support workers in Hounslow to hold strike vote
Workers employed by Hestia, a referral service which provides adult services in Hounslow in London, have begun a ballot for industrial action. A number of workers who are Unite members provide support for people ranging from mental health support, addiction, immigration ... Read more
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham, says the legal victory means no employer can ever offer their employees inducements to undermine union collective bargaining, adding that union members have been resolute in their six-year battle to defend union rights: Their victory ... Read more
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Axing one in 10 staff at Royal College of Occupational Therapists called ‘rank hypocrisy’
Workers given just 3 days to make life changing redundancy decision or accept new jobs on worse terms Unite represents many of the affected workers, who include counsellors, therapists and support staff, and have called on Royal College of Occupational Therapists ... 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
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Hestia Hounslow LIFE workers ballot for strike action
Workers at Hestia Hounslow LIFE are currently voting in a formal ballot for strike action. Previous articles on our website have indicated how these workers have attempted to engage Hestia in discussion over proposed changes for their service, pay and ... Read more
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Unite shines a light on `shocking’ pay situation for Scotland’s care and support workforce
More than half of those working in care and support in Scotland (52 percent) run out of money before their next pay day, and one in five don’t use energy when at home because they can’t afford to according to ... Read more
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Shelter workers begin balloting for strike action
Workers at housing charity Shelter have begun balloting for strike action after receiving an “insulting” pay offer. Shelter is imposing its pay offer on its staff and refusing to consider any further permanent increases to salaries, which the Union say is ... Read more
AUGUST 24, 2022
Voluntary sector workers face a collective “wage penalty”
Analysis undertaken by Pro Bono Economics (PBE) shows that the voluntary sector workforce in the UK are paid an average of 7 per cent less per hour than equivalent workers in other sectors. The report, The price of purpose: Pay gaps ... Read more
AUGUST 23, 2022
Millions of low-paid workers are being pushed to the brink by eye-watering bills and soaring prices. Yet companies are making record profits and handing massive pay rises to those at the very top. The TUC are calling for a return to ... Read more
AUGUST 16, 2022
Unite statement on record fall in UK wages
Commenting on the record three per cent fall in wages in real terms for UK workers, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This record fall in real wages demonstrates the vital need for unions like Unite to defend the value of ... Read more
MAY 18, 2022
INFLATION: Restrain boardroom greed not workers’ pay
CPI leaps to highest on record at 9 per cent, RPI hits 11.1 per cent As real terms inflation (the RPI) crashes into double–digits at 11.1 per cent, the leader of the Unite union hit back at demands for wage restraint, ... Read more
APRIL 13, 2022
Workers at Thirteen Housing Group balloted for strike action
Workers at Thirteen Housing Group, which has over 35,000 properties in North East and Yorkshire, are being balloted for strike action in a dispute over an ‘insulting’ pay offer as the chief executive pockets £215,000 a year. Unite the union said that in ... Read more
APRIL 13, 2022
Workers facing double whammy of rising inflation and falling wages
Unite says workers facing double whammy of rising inflation and falling wages creating an historic cost of living crisis with published figures showing the highest inflation figures in 30 years. Earlier this week, a report from ONS on pay, showed ... 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
JANUARY 19, 2022
As CPI rate of inflation climbs to 5.4%, Unite GS Sharon Graham demands significant wage rises
As the CPI measure of inflation today was revealed to have climbed to an astonishing 5.4 per cent, Unite says real scale of crisis is revealed in RPI rise to 7.5 per cent – a more accurate figure of rising ... Read more
JANUARY 17, 2022
Economic forecasters to strike in a row over inflation
Economists and researchers at the world famous NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) will stage a two week strike in a row over two years of below inflation pay offers. The strike will start on Friday 21st January and ... Read more
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Workers must not pay for rising living costs with lower wages in 2022
As another report warns of punishing jumps in living costs for 2022, the leader of Unite the union warns that workers must not be swindled out of their pay and pensions. Responding to the Resolution Foundation’s report out today (Wednesday 29 ... Read more
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Wage rises must at least match inflation as RPI hits 6% or workers will pay for the pandemic
Unite’s Sharon Graham says the union will continue to base claims on the RPI figure rather than CPI because it better reflects the actual price rises experienced by Unite members. In the future Unite will also develop its own ‘Bargaining ... 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
OCTOBER 05, 2021
Workers vote for strike action at Greenwich Leisure Limited over back pay owed
Social enterprise Greenwich Leisure Limited (GLL) has been given ‘a reasonable timeframe’ to sort out the pay issues of its Lewisham leisure staff, such as failure to pay wages owed and redundancy enhancements - or face strike action. Unite the union members ... Read more
JUNE 07, 2021
Unions call for a 10% pay increase for Youth and Community Workers
JNC Staff Side unions have today submitted their JNC (Pink Book) Pay Claim today calling for a 10% pay increase for youth and community workers employed on JNC pay and conditions. In the claim, LGA Employers have been reminded that most ... Read more
JUNE 02, 2021
With the end of lockdown restrictions in sight, Unite urges government to see the bigger picture as NHS care backlog grows As the UK today (June 2) marks its first day of zero Covid fatalities in ten months, an ostensible end ... 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
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Employee pension contribution hike for hundreds of workers
The UK’s largest housing association, Clarion Housing Group, has written to members of its Pension Scheme (CHGPS) informing them that from 1 April, employee contributions for some defined benefit pensions could be set at 22.9% of their salaries. This rate will ... Read more
JANUARY 09, 2020
One in four workers on minimum wage illegally underpaid As the government’s mandatory minimum wage is set to rise to just £8.72 an hour in April, new research by The Resolution Foundation report has revealed that an astounding 25 per cent of minimum ... Read more
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Unite to undertake consultative ballot action after RSPCA move towards performance-related pay
Unite is to undertake a consultative ballot on industrial action with its members at the RSPCA over proposed changes to pay and conditions by the charity. The consultative ballot will run until 5 December and is designed to examine the strength of feeling ... Read more
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Peabody surplus up – but pressing ahead with brutal cuts
Despite announcing a £14 million rise in it’s surplus in the last six months taking it to £67 million, Peabody Housing are handing down brutal cuts to vital tenant services and impossible workloads are being forced on neighbourhood managers. With no pay rise ... Read more
OCTOBER 02, 2019
Greenwich council housing repair workers vote to strike
About 120 housing repair workers at Greenwich council have overwhelmingly voted to strike as they are disgusted over the way they are being treated, Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said today. Unite said its members had voted by 95 per ... Read more