Unite East Midlands

Unite East Midlands out in force today in a show of solidarity with the striking Birmingham bin workers ✊🏽✊🏿✊🏼

#BrumBinWorkers

🚨 BREAKING | Response to Downing Street on #Birmingham bins

It is not surprising that many workers in Britian question the Labour government’s commitment to working people, when it issues a statement clearly blaming bin workers in a dispute not of their making. 🧵1️⃣👇

British defence jobs and skills will keep us safe, says the PM. So he’d better buy the UK’s jet, not the US one Why purchase American-made F-35 jets instead of upgraded T5 Typhoons? Surely that would make a mockery of all he promised, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of the union Unite

Investment in our #defence must mean British jobs. @theguardian.com ⤵️

Thank you to everyone who came out in support of sacked Unite Hospitality activist Anne Marie over the weekend.

Supporters from across the region came together to tell Premier Inn that union busting is disgusting!

#JusticeForAnneMarie

If the final assembly of the Typhoon does not happen in Britain, it will be an act of self-harm.

The UK Government and John Healey MP need to stop the dithering and delay, get the order in for the British Typhoon's and back British manufacturing. #BackBritain #Defence

Eɴᴇʀɢʏ ᴘʀɪᴄᴇ ᴄᴀᴘ: Cʀᴜᴇʟ ɪɴᴄʀᴇᴀsᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡᴏʀᴋᴇʀs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇʟᴅᴇʀʟʏ

This is a cruel increase which is going to hit the elderly and low paid workers the hardest.

How can this be acceptable when energy companies are making billions in profits and millions of people are struggling to keep warm? 1/2 ⤵️

🚨 This Saturday! 🚨

Join us in Derby at 1pm. Show Premier Inn they cannot treat workers this way. Justice for Anne Marie!

If action is not taken in #Grangemouth, the Labour govt, these Labour politicians, are on the verge of colluding in one of Scotland’s historic acts of industrial vandalism. It’s time for Labour to decide whose side they are on. ⤵️

Image of steel being made at a steel works

Donald Trumps’s steel tariff threat should be a wake-up call for this government. I have long been calling for the steel industry to be classified as critical national infrastructure – just as it is in the US. 1/3

❤️ As we kick off #HeartUnions week , who better to promote the value of being part of a trade union, than our Retired Members Committee.

These members are lifelong trade unionists who stay in their union beyond retirement from the workplace, to fight for their rights as one.

The agreement follows months of negotiations between Unite and Siemens Mobility management. Unite members will now begin the process of electing reps from the workforce for key positions.

Read more ⬇️

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Major high street supermarkets are signed up members of the ETI and will now be aware that Bakkavor is paying poverty wages to its workforce.

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Pensioners ‘missing meals’ after Labour’s winter fuel payment changes Labour changes to the winter fuel payment continue to prove divisive

A Unite survey shows that pensioners are suffering real-life effects of the needless cut to winter fuel. They're shivering at home, having to go without bathing or without meals.

Instead of picking the pocket of pensioners, the govt should be looking at a wealth tax on the very richest in society.

🚨 Solidarity with @unitetheunion.bsky.social Bakkavor workers in Spalding!

They feed the nation but are paid just 10p above minimum wage.

💷 Bakkavor made £94M profit last year—workers demand only an 81p/hr rise (just 2% of profits).

✊ End poverty pay now!

If Princes thinks its threats will weaken workers’ resolve it has another thing coming. This is appalling behaviour from a shameful company. First it pulled the rug from under our members by reneging on a pay deal and now it is threatening their jobs with these union-busting tactics. ➡️ rb.gy/0fx2z7

🔘 @unitesharon.bsky.social: "If Princes thinks its threats will weaken workers’ resolve it has another thing coming ... First it pulled the rug from under our members by reneging on a pay deal and now is threatening their jobs with these union-busting tactics."
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Our members at Princes Long Sutton are in their third week of strike action.

Our Regional Secretary, Paresh Patel stopped by the picket line yesterday to send solidarity greetings from the whole Unite East Midlands region.

The UK this winter:
❄️ Working class pensioners freezing
🚑 Hospitals overwhelmed
💰 Billionaires dodging tax
⏰ Time to do something about it?
Hear Juliet's story. Save the #WinterFuelPayment
📢 Pls sign our petition: cutt.ly/TaxRich & share & make the politicians listen!

❄️ Freezing temperatures won't stop our members! ❄️

Spirits are high on strike day 1 at Princes, Long Sutton. This is part of a wider dispute over pay affecting Princes sites across the UK

Members were visited by our Regional Secretary, Paresh Patel and representatives from the local trades council.

Solidarity! Our members at the Long Sutton Princes site will be out on the picket line from 6am tomorrow.

Strikes are set to escalate at Princes Food after the company failed to come back to the negotiating table with an improved offer after Christmas.

Our members at Long Sutton, Lincs will start their strike action tomorrow and will also be out on 9, 14, 16 Jan

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Our members at Bakkavor had a special visitor on the picket line on Friday 🎅

Members at the site, in Spalding Lincolnshire have been on strike since September in a dispute with the company over low pay.

My Column for Real Britain | @mirror.co.uk

➡️ Profiteering
➡️ Industrial plan for the future
➡️ Labour need to deliver
➡️ @unitetheunion.bsky.social are winning for members
➡️ Winter fuel cuts
➡️ Jobs and security go together

#JobsPayConditions

Hundreds of food factory workers in Lincolnshire have again voted for further strike action due to the continued failure of their employer, Bakkavor, to pay them a fair wage.

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📣 Save Grangemouth oil refinery.

Until last week, our politicians have been missing in action, why have they let it get this far? Scottish Labour and the SNP the message is clear, come out form behind your sofa and stand with us and.....

FIGHT FOR SCOTLAND!

@unitetheunion.bsky.social want the courts to see what we’re saying, that if the proper impact assessment on the #WinterFuelPayment was not done then the UK government need to go back to the beginning and in the interim pay the #WinterFuelAllowance this year.