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FEBRUARY 09, 2024
Sanctuary housing maintenance workers vote to strike
The London maintenance team at the large housing association, Sanctuary have voted to strike overwhelmingly supported by members who voted 100% in favour of action on a 60% turnout. This impressive vote follows a series of disputes involving housing maintenance workers ... Read more
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
MARCH 19, 2021
Law needs to change for care workers to have decent pay rise
The government needs to step in and change the law following today’s (Friday March 19) Supreme Court ruling that carers, who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed overnight, are not entitled to the national minimum ... 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