💙 Work in the NHS? ⚠️ The Health Bill includes the abolition of a number of NHS employers, and allows NHS employees to be transferred out without guaranteed TUPE protection. 💪 Stand up for your pay. Write to the Lords today https://cutt.ly/LordsNHS
Unite the union
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
The UK and Ireland's largest trade union. Fighting for #JobsPayConditions. Join at: http://unitetheunion.org/join
NHS mental health services are stretched to breaking point. Workers are being forced to strike to protect their working conditions and jobs. And to defend patient safety. On #WorldMentalHealthDay please comment and share to show your support for mental health workers 🏥🙏💚✊
🚨 FTSE 100 average CEO pay busts the £5m mark for the first time. 💰💰 If companies can afford to spend millions on pay, bonuses, shares and pensions for bosses, they can afford a living wage for workers.
🌭 Workers making some of the UK’s biggest food brands are still on the picket line in a fight for fair pay and decent conditions This week they are in crucial negotiations. Please share and tell Pilgrims and their clients like Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's to pay up! 📣
Workers are taking action and winning! ✊ From fighting pay cuts to demanding fair pay and better conditions, workers are standing together, taking action and winning better #JobsPayConditions across the country. Not a member yet? Join today: join.unitetheunion.org
🗣️ "Recently settled a discrimination case for a member that been kept on a lower salary for some years. Got a pay out of £8,000” Unite Equality rep. The surest way to ensure fairness at your workplace is a strong union. Resources for reps: www.unitetheunion.org/what-we-do/e... #EqualPayDay
90 years since the Battle of Cable Street & we still stand together against division 📣 Join us in Shoreditch Sat Oct 3 for a night of music, solidarity & resistance with SPORTS BANGER & King Alpha Sound System... 100% of ticket funds will be donated to workers on strike 🎟️ Tickets cutt.ly/NyxG0SDv
Workers are taking action — and winning! ✊ Unite members have won better #JobsPayConditions across a range of sectors: 💰 Massive pay rises 🚌 Air conditioning in bus driver cabs ✊ Union recognition 💪 Stronger workplace power Not a member yet? Join today: join.unitetheunion.org
💔 Low pay. Discrimination. Workers like Iye, Titiilayo and Temitope are essential to our #NHS They deserve to be paid properly and treated with respect. 📺 Please watch and ♻️ share and help get their story heard
🌭 Fridge Raiders, Richmond Sausages, Rollover hotdogs all at risk of disappearing from shelves without workers in Enniskillen. Pilgrim’s Europe made £128 million in profit, but workers are paid just 11p above the minimum wage 😳 Tell Pilgrim's to pay up now cutt.ly/PilgrimStrike
📣 "We want to be fighting cancer. That's what we love to do. But we've been forced onto the picket line" Ahead of critical talks & after 60 days of strikes it's time for @icr.ac.uk to pay their researchers fairly Please help these vital workers get their voices heard. 📺 Watch & ♻️ share their story
🚨“We need to ensure that no stone is left unturned to mitigate these jobs losses Unite was pivotal in securing the £1.5bn government facility for the company after the cyber-attack. Once again we will be demanding all necessary levers are pulled to support JLR workers" @unitesharon.bsky.social
💼 #KnowYourRights: Employers must follow a process to discipline or dismiss workers. 🤔 Did you know that you have the right to union representation at formal meetings? And union members get better results. Your right to representation in Facts and Figures from p65 www.unitetheunion.org/fandf
💰💰💰“There has never been a better time to be a billionaire. A record 3,428 made this year’s World Billionaires list” Forbes' Rich List. The time has come to make the rich pay their fair share. Read JUST HOW RICH the billionaires are in Facts & Figures unitetheunion.org/fandf p53
💰 Huge pay rises for failing execs: 💧 Thames Water CEO Chris Weston saw his salary increase by 13.6% in a year to just under ONE MILLION pounds (£995k). And CFO Steve Buck saw his pay go up over a quarter (26%) to £630k. 📈 Meanwhile average water bills will rise by 5.4% to £639 a year in England.
"We build boats here but we've also built our lives here." The RNLI are closing Fin's boatyard & expect workers to find new jobs on the Isle of Wight or relocate to a more expensive area without financial help. "The behaviour of the RNLI in this dispute has been a disgrace" @unitesharon.bsky.social
The work of the Inquiry – into deceitful ,and possibly criminal, activity by police officers – is far from complete. Will you support the victims of spycops? Take action here: policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/where-we-sta...
💰💰💰 Energy giants are making record profits while households face record bills. 📈 BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.27bn in just three months to the end of June ⏰ Time to tax excessive profits and wealth!
🏦 "It's getting close to as good as it gets" says Jamie Dimon 💰 And well he might. He's an exec at JP Morgan. The big four Wall St banks have raked in nearly £32 billion in net profit in just three months! There IS enough money to go round. Read just how much: www.unitetheunion.org/fandf
🏦Workers like Kwasi work for some of our largest banks and companies. It can be hard work, tough hours & pay & job security are often poor. But workers are organising to improve their work. Give this essential insight into the working life of Europe's cleaners a listen and a share 👂♻️
"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.
🚨BREAKING: BURNHAM ACTS ON SOCIAL CARE🚨 "Britain's social care system has been turned into a cash cow for profiteers making money on the back of suffering. Fixing social care will need a serious plan with real money, that puts workers, pensioners & everyday people first” @unitesharon.bsky.social
💰 “There has never been a better time to be a billionaire” says @forbes.com There are now 3,428 billionaires in the world, up 400 on 2025. Instead of being taxed the super-rich are spanking this wealth on super yachts. There are 210,000 of them bobbing on the sea, costing between $500k & a billion
📣 Tax the rich and renationalise utilities. These are what our supporters told us should be Andy Burnham's new government's priorities. Here's what some of Unite's Executive members say should take priority ⤵️
💰“Extreme wealth sitting idle in the hands of a few can be put to work: reducing inequality, investing in sustainable jobs, strengthening hospitals, schools and social care…” Not us saying it but 120 millionaire supporters of @patmillsuk.bsky.social ⏰ Time for a #Wealthtax
🚨Ulster University is planning to scrap 450 jobs. 😡Terrible news for workers 😡Terrible news for students 😡Terrible news for communities in Northern Ireland 📢You can help: Share & comment on Edward's appeal; contact Ulster University; write to your MP or MLA
⌛ You'd have had to start working in 1896 for the average UK worker to earn the same as the average FTSE100 CEO! 📈 Executive pay went up another 8.6% last year 💰 AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot pocketed £17.7m
🤯2 headlines to blow your mind! 💰Thames CEO trousers a £100k rise And demands clarity on ownership of his company, debt-ridden and accused of pumping sewage into our rivers & seas. 🚰It’s not just bosses who want urgent clarity water ownership. We do too. Will you bring water back into public hands?
🚫"It's always been a melting pot round here." Kay's grandparents fought off Moseley's fascists in Cable Street 90 years ago. Her message to the far right today? "You didn't win then. And you ain't gonna win now!"
Working in a hot kitchen is tough at the best of times - but during a heatwave... 🌡️ As people flock to bars for the world cup, we spoke to a chef about working in extreme heat 🥵 Download our 'Beat the heat' guide: actionnetwork.org/forms/do-you...
GOOD NEWS! (if you’re a CEO) 📈 Profits are booming. Unite analysis of quarterly results shows firms raked in profits of £730 bn! Not bad for just three months. 🏦 The UK's big four banks made profits of £11 bn in that period. Read more in Facts and Figures, from Page 54 www.unitetheunion.org/fandf