Unite warns it will hold back funds if Labour weakens plan on workers’ rights

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UK May Day in London [Waltham Forest Trades Council on Twitter] 01-05-2024

UK / Palestine Vigil held in London to commemorate journalists killed in Gaza [AA] 30-04-2024

UK Pay packets worth less than 2008 in nearly two-thirds of UK local authorities – TUC analysis reveals [TUC] 29-04-2024

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Wales Tata’s insulting offers to workers are just adding insult to injury ahead of industrial action 2024-05-05 [Unite - the Union]

Unite warns it will hold back funds if Labour weakens plan on workers’ rights 2024-05-05 [The Observer]

Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in England 2024-05-04 [The Guardian]

England FIFPRO, PFA England, Nike & Leeds Beckett University launch project to reduce ACL injuries in women’s football 2024-05-04 [FIFPRO]

Heathrow strike suspended for two days 2024-05-03 [Unite the union]

ELE Advanced Technologies increases workers’ wages by 13% following strike, Unite says 2024-05-03 [Unite the union]

RFA seafarers to take strike action 2024-05-03 [RMT]

DWP offices facing closure due to GMB G4S security guard strike 2024-05-03 [PCS]

Scotland Scottish Labour fury as Keir Starmer waters down workers' rights plan 2024-05-03 [The National]

Most college staff want Ofsted inspections to be abolished, a damning union study has found 2024-05-03 [Morning Star]

Palestine Union votes not to take a stand on Gaza 2024-05-03 [Society of Authors]

NUJ welcomes BBC call for inquiry into police surveillance of a journalist 2024-05-02 [NUJ]

PCS urges Labour not to water down new deal for workers 2024-05-02 [PCS]

Christina McAnea stresses how vital school support staff are 2024-05-02 [UNISON]

Unions warn Labour not to water down package on workers’ rights 2024-05-02 [The Herald]

Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ will not fully ban zero-hours contracts 2024-05-02 [The Guardian]

May Day in London 2024-05-01 [Waltham Forest Trades Council on Twitter]

RMT responds to New Deal dilution media briefings 2024-05-01 [RMT]

Unite chief blasts Labour’s watering down of New Deal 2024-05-01 [Unite]

Amazon Legal Challenge: Workers Fight for Union Recognition Amid Anti-Union Tactics 2024-05-01 [UNI Global Union]

Scotland STV members strike action, day two 2024-05-01 [NUJ]

UK The deadliest days for journalists in war zones - World Press Freedom Day 2024-05-01 [Inter Press Services]

UK Dividends payments soar globally as worker pay stagnates 2024-05-01 [The Guardian]

17 year wage squeeze the.worst in 200 years 2024-05-01 [TUC]

Unite warns of EU border delays as fresh import checks introduced 2024-04-30 [Unite the union]

NUJ calls out “sexist” Spectator column 2024-04-30 [NUJ]

Scotland Unite secures 10.9% pay uplift for OCS workers at Glasgow airport 2024-04-30 [Unite the union]

Northern Ireland education workers ready to strike over budget 2024-04-30 [GMB]

Palestine Vigil held in London to commemorate journalists killed in Gaza 2024-04-30 [AA]

New wave of strikes to hit south west London bus services 2024-04-29 [Unite the union]

Refuellers strike at Heathrow called off as Unite wins new deal for workers 2024-04-29 [Unite the union]

'No room for complacency” about media freedom warns the NUJ 2024-04-29 [NUJ]

Industrial action hits defence giant Rolls-Royce 2024-04-29 [GMB]

People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister 2024-04-29 [The Guardian]

Workers' Memorial Day 2024 - For rail, minimum service levels could be deadly 2024-04-29 [Morning Star]

Workers' Memorial Day 2024 - Firefighters are being left to die 2024-04-29 [Morning Star]

Pay packets worth less than 2008 in nearly two-thirds of UK local authorities – TUC analysis reveals 2024-04-29 [TUC]

Stats officials refuse two-day week in office 2024-04-28 [BBC]

International Workers’ Memorial Day 2024: Usdaw highlights climate risks for workers 2024-04-28 [USDAW]

International Workers' Memorial Day ceremonies take place across Britain 2024-04-28 [Morning Star]

Inequality has soared under the Tory Government 2024-04-28 [USDAW]

Workers' Memorial Day 2024-04-28 [Unite]

New wave of strikes in Haringey as housing repair workers walk out over pay 2024-04-27 [Unite the union]

Struggling schools forced to rely on teaching assistants as cheap cover for teachers 2024-04-27 [UNISON]

‘A blot on our legal system’: New head of prisons’ union calls for urgent review of indefinite sentences 2024-04-27 [Independent]

Black and minority ethnic women are twice as likely to be on zero-hour contracts as white men 2024-04-27 [Morning Star]

Unite: Tata plan confirmation will be answered with industrial action 2024-04-26 [Unite the union]

Unite to coordinate on strikes after finance minister fails to deliver pay and grading review 2024-04-26 [Unite the union]

Firefighters win 4% pay offer and advances on maternity following talks 2024-04-26 [FBU]

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This month in labour history

4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]

5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]

10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]

14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]

30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]