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Unite on the Taylor Report: Work must pay; swindling bosses need to fear the law

Ahead of the publication of the long-awaited Taylor Report tomorrow, (Tuesday 11 July) into workers’ rights in the changing economy, the country’s big… Read news article

Unite assists 94 members in recovering almost £400,000 in compensation

Unite the union members, who were made redundant from a Bury packaging firm, will share a collective compensation award of almost £400,000 after their… Read news article

Work isn’t paying, leaving millions facing painful choices this Christmas, warns Unite

Work for increasing numbers of people doesn’t pay, leaving millions facing painful choices this Christmas, Britain’s largest union, Unite, warned toda… Read news article

Corporate spying revelations raise fresh blacklisting questions

Unite, the UK’s largest union, has renewed calls for a public inquiry into blacklisting, after new revelations of how corporate intelligence firms inf… Read news article

Member secures financial settlement and reasonable adjustments after disability discrimination claim

Unite member, Carole Matthews, has secured £1,500 in compensation and agreed a number of reasonable adjustments for her job following a successful cla… Read news article

Car passenger involved in collision is awarded compensation

Alan turned to Unite Legal Services after being injured in August 2016, when the driver of the car in which he was a passenger drove through a red lig… Read news article

Government response to Taylor Review not the leap needed to end insecure work for millions

Responding to the government’s response to the Taylor Review on modern working practices, Unite general secretary, Len McCuskey, said: “This is a tiny… Read news article

Motorway worker awarded significant compensation following brain injury

Unite Legal Services has secured £175,000 in compensation for a member who suffered a brain injury in an accident at work. Mr R was working on the M… Read news article

650 Durham bus drivers to strike for a week in pay dispute

Intransigent bus bosses are being blamed for the impending week-long strike on Sunday by 650 bus drivers in the north east in a pay dispute, which wil… Read news article

Family of Wakefield Unite member compensated after asbestos death

The family of one of our members from Yorkshire turned to Unite Legal Services for guidance after his death from an asbestos-related disease. The Uni… Read news article

"We will resist the Ford Bridgend closure with all our might", says McCluskey

The leader of the UK and Ireland’s largest union, Unite, has branded Ford’s decision to close its Bridgend engine plant a ‘grotesque act of economic b… Read news article

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Government urged to resolve sick pay problems with furlough scheme

Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, is urging the government to resolve a major discrepancy within the government's Job Retention Scheme which… Read news article

Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment, warns Unite

Thousands of social care staff in England could be falling through the net when it comes to the provision of the £60,000 payment in the event of death… Read news article