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Widow of Unite member receives more than £275,000 in compensation for mesothelioma claim on his behalf … Read full story -
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At Unite Legal Services, we believe that losing a limb shouldn’t mean you lose your independence. Wh… View page -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 27 April 2020
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 12 July 2021
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 25 January 2021
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 08 February 2021
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 22 March 2021
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services defends bus driver wrongly dismissed by employer for “gross misconduct”
Fifty-five-year-old Alan Bailes, who had been employed as a bus driver for more than 22 years, was wrongly dismissed by his employer for “gross miscon… Read news article -
Unite member suffers life-changing injuries in workplace accident
A Unite member from the Wirral, who suffered a traumatic brain injury at work, has received substantial compensation with the help of Unite Legal Serv… Read news article -
Mesothelioma victim urges Unite members to seek union advice
A retired Unite member, who has developed the fatal asbestos disease, mesothelioma, 20 years after accepting a final settlement for pleural plaques th… Read news article -
Unite takes action against diesel fumes ‘time bomb’
A major new initiative to protect workers from the ticking time bomb caused by exposure to diesel fumes has been launched by Unite, the UK’s largest u… Read news article -
One year on: the construction blacklisting victory
Richard Arthur, of Thompsons Solicitors, one of Unite’s panel firms, reflects on the blacklisting High Court victory one year on. Today (May 6) marks… Read news article -
Unite to bring leading blacklisters to court
Unite, the UK’s construction union, has issued high court proceedings to bring the ‘controlling minds’ behind the systematic blacklisting of workers t… Read news article -
Unite lobbies Parliament as part of blacklisting day of action
Members of Unite working in the construction industry are lobbying Parliament today (Wednesday 6 December) as part of a nationwide day of action, in t… Read news article -
Unite calls for fundamental reforms after scale of Carillion’s mismanagement revealed
Unite, the UK’s largest union, has called for the urgent reform of company and pension laws, after the true scale of the fundamental flaws that allowe… Read news article -
Unite set for first hearing in legal battle over bogus self-employment with construction firm Munnelly Group
Unite, the UK’s construction union, began legal proceedings against the Munnelly Group and several of its subsidiaries in March 2019, claiming its wor… Read news article -
Threats to UK manufacturing and those not covered for statutory sick pay are key issues arising from the coronavirus outbreak
Emergency legislation is needed to ensure that millions of workers not entitled to statutory sick pay receive it from day one if they can’t work becau… Read news article -
Unite hails victory as 1,500 Marriott hotel workers go on coronavirus job retention scheme
The decision by Marriott International today (Wednesday 22 April) to put its 1,500 casual workers onto the government’s coronavirus job retention sche… Read news article -
Ministers are at ‘sixes and sevens’ over London transport advice and funding, says Unite
The government was accused today (Thursday 21 May) of being at ‘sixes and sevens’ over its London transport policy and plans to get commuters back t… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 10 August 2020
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 16 November 2020
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 14 December 2020
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article -
Prime minister urged to speed up NHS pay rise as public backs the move
Health unions representing more than 1.3m workers across the UK have written to the prime minister today urging him to speed up the pay process so NHS… Read news article -
Fresh London bus strikes this week in battle to protect pay and conditions
London bus passengers should brace for further severe disruption this week, Unite the union has warned, after fresh strikes in a dispute over pay and… Read news article -
Unite Legal Services: Weekly coronavirus COVID-19 latest news round-up – 02 August 2021
At Unite Legal Services, we’ve collated the latest news and information regarding employment matters and workers’ rights in relation to coronavirus CO… Read news article