Solidarity! It is confirmed that from Monday 27th April Unite’s Officers will take strike action for the first time in our union’s history. Pickets will stand outside our union’s headquarters and local offices as our Officers stand up to defend the principle of independent trade unionism. This
News that Sharon Graham’s team have held secret talks with Nigel Farage’s Reform party is being met with anger across our union. Courting Farage is a betrayal of our members already under attack by Reform and the thousands more in the party’s sights. It’s time to
Our union’s Officers have overwhelmingly voted YES to industrial action, leaving Sharon Graham facing a second strike of union employees during her time in office. It’s time to reunite and end the toxicity which is dividing our union. The ballot was conducted by the Unite Officer’s branch,
This week ballot papers are being sent out for the election of the new Unite Executive Council (EC). The importance of this election for the future of our union cannot be overstated. Together with the election for the General Secretary - which will follow quickly on the heels of the
Warning: Homophobia, far-right content Sharon Graham is under pressure to condemn “homophobic” and far right supporting comments made by Kenny Dinsdale, who is standing as an Executive Council candidate on Graham’s slate. A Facebook post has emerged of Dinsdale cheering on the release of far-right street thug Tommy Robinson.
War in Iran has put energy profiteering back in the headlines. Rather than seizing this moment, Sharon Graham has allowed our union to be co-opted by the most reactionary forces attacking our members. This repeats a disastrous industrial and political approach which has failed to stop major site closures. We
A little over a year since the first strike by Unite staff over a “toxic bullying culture,” Sharon Graham now faces a second industrial action ballot by Unite employees. As the union’s officers ballot for action over union recognition, it’s time to Reunite to end the toxicity and
Reform's new salvo of planned attacks against trade unions and our members is being met with silence from Sharon Graham. Reform have announced plans to rip up workplace equality protections, create a UK ICE terror unit, and threaten public sector trade unionists who are defending workers from attack
Sharon Graham decided to make our Executive Council election a referendum with one question: Are you loyal to Sharon Graham above all else? Now that nominations have closed the answer from our union’s biggest branches and workplaces is loud and clear. NO! Not since David Cameron resigned in the
A far right demonstration at our union’s office in Southampton was a coordinated attempt to intimidate Unite Community members and to silence our union. In response we must Reunite – to defend our union, to defend each other, and to stop the far right. On 29th January far right thugs
It is a grim and unexpected irony that Unite’s hard earned reputation as the organising union in the UK is being trashed by the supposed “Organising General Secretary” Sharon Graham. From Port Talbot to Veolia, in recent years our union’s Organisers have been steadily reduced to underappreciated and
The murder of nurse and trade unionist Alex Pretti by Donald Trump’s federal agents brings home to us all the dangers of the authoritarian far right. Internationally, in the UK and Ireland, in our communities and in our workplaces - we must reunite to stop the far right. On