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Check out the latest campaign news of the Unite for a Workers' Economy campaign
- Labour’s top union backer to urge Starmer to nationalise UK energy sector – Financial Times, Wednesday 17 May 2023
- New union investigation reveals taking energy into public ownership would end the ‘scandal of energy company profiteering’ – Wednesday 17 May 2023
- Humza Yousaf faces trade union backlash over free school meals u-turn - Daily Record, Thursday 4 May 2023
- Humza Yousaf told don't 'U-turn' on free school meals for more pupils - Glasgow Times, Wednesday 3 May 2023
- Humza Yousaf hints at tax rises for wealthy to pay for anti-poverty policies - The Scotsman, Wednesday 3 May 2023
68 is too late! Unite joins forces with National Pensioners' Convention and Scottish Pensioners' Forum to oppose state pension age rises with London demo – UniteLIVE, Wednesday 3 May 2023- Campaigners demand end to rise in state pension age at protest - Left Foot Forward, Wednesday 3 May 2023
- State pension revolt over Tory threat to make millions work longer – Daily Mirror, Tuesday 2 May 2023
- 'Scrap plans to raise state pension age to 68,' UK Government urged - STV News, Tuesday 2 May 2023
- Petition calls for UK Government to halt pension age rises - The National, Tuesday 2 May 2023
- State pension age: Campaigners call on Government to rule out any further increases - Belfast News Letter, Tuesday 2 May 2023
- Campaigners and MPs to protest outside Parliament against further increases to state pension age - Morning Star, 1 May 2023
- Further coverage of 68 is too late demo in print editions of the Mirror, Yorkshire Post, Daily Star, Scotsman, Western Mail, Press & Journal (Scotland), Daily Record, Derby Telegraph, The News Portsmouth, Liverpool Echo, Aberdeen Evening Express, Manchester Evening News, Huddersfield Examiner, Worcester News.
- 68 is too late: don’t raise the state pension age – Joe Rollin writes in the Morning Star, Saturday 29 April
- A Workers’ Economy from Canteens to Coffins – Scottish Left Review, Wednesday 19 April 2023
- Inflation figures change nothing for workers - Wednesday 19 April 2023
- Tesco accused of ‘rampant profiteering’ as ‘obscene’ profits published - Thursday 13 April 2023
- School meal debt to be scrapped in Glasgow - BBC News, Thursday 30 March 2023
- School meal debt written off in Glasgow – The Herald, Thursday 30 March 2023
- Glasgow school meal debt to be written off as campaigners call for end to food poverty – Glasgow Live, Thursday 30 March 2023
- Glasgow city council votes to write off £300k of school meal debt – Clyde Radio, Thursday 30 March 2023
- School meal debt written off in Glasgow – Glasgow Times, Thursday 30 March 2023
- School meals debt written off in Glasgow – Clydebank Post, Thursday 30 March 2023
- Unite pressure spurs Glasgow City council to write-off school meal debt - Wednesday 29 March 2023
- Unite and the National Pensioners’ Convention join forces to oppose pension age rises - Tuesday 28 March 2023
- Food prices: The British public are hostages to ‘greedflation’ – Unite, Tuesday 28 March 2023
- Save Debt Advice day of action - Unite update, 15 March 2023
- Union activists and debt campaigners protest outside DWP – Morning Star, 13 March 2023
- ‘Global greedflation’: Big firms driving shopping bills to record highs’ – The Guardian, 12 March 2023
- The Guardian view on corporate greed: It’s causing inflation – The Guardian, 12 March 2023
“Feed the Weans” | Rally demands free school dinners for all children – Morning Star, March 2023 - Activists launch campaign to end school hunger in Glasgow – Unite, March 2023
- Unite delivers food parcels amid poverty in Workington – Unite, February 2023
- Workington Cost of Living crisis demo - update on the action taken at Workington MP's office - February 2023
- EDF’s UK profits is proof of our broken economy - Friday 17 February 2023
- Banks’ bonanza profits show cost-of-living crisis fuelled by ‘epidemic of profiteering’ - Friday 17 February 2023
- Obscene Centrica profits confirm the need for tougher energy windfall tax - Thursday 16 February 2023
- Unite delivers donations to local food bank after revealing extent of food poverty in Grimsby - Monday 6 February 2023
- Activists in Hull demand an end to supermarket profiteering - Friday 3 February 2023
- Bank of England interest hikes making profits bonanza billions for big banks - Thursday 2 February 2023
- February 2023 action leaflet - campaigning in Hull and Grimsby to put working people over profit and politics [PDF].
- Unite blasts Jeremy Hunt’s ‘With one leap Jack was free’ economics - Friday 27 January 2023
- Unite for a Workers' Economy in Barrow - Join Unite on 9 February [PDF].
- Unite for a Workers' Economy in Wokington - Join Unite on 28 January [PDF].
- Protestors use local MP’s birthday to highlight food poverty in Workington - Thursday 26 January 2023
- Government proposals on ‘fire and rehire’ labelled ‘an insult to workers and their families’ - Tuesday 24 January 2023
- Unite accuses government of setting fire to workers’ rights in a `forever war’ to make workers poorer - Wednesday 18 January 2023
- We say no to crumbs - Workers will "not be broken or beaten by Rishi Sunak" says Unite's Sharon Graham - Sunday Mirror - 1 January 2023
- Unite protests outside UK Power Networks amid cost-of-living crisis - The Argus 16 December 2022
- Support the Striking Co-op Workers - petition
- Don't Leave Our 'Heartland Communities' Behind - petition
- Read: Sharon Graham interviewed in the Big Issue North on how she is delivering double digit pay rise for Unite members across the country - December 2022
- Why Ofgem is failing and needs to take action - Unite campaign update - November 2022
- EVENT: 18 November 2022 - Solidarity Not Charity gig with The Wakes and Calum Baird - The Admiral Bar, Glasgow
- Poll of 6,000 adults reveals strong public support for fair pay for NHS workers - 9 November 2022
- Hull Stagecoach strikers rally - 3 November 2022
- ‘It’s no coincidence the Tories are attacking unions now – it’s because we’re winning’ - Unite general secretary Sharon Graham speaks to Morning star editor Ben Chacko - Tuesday 18 October 2022
- Fans Supporting Foodbanks - Check out the latest on communities coming together, rising up and driving #solidaritynotcharity to help deliver practical change following the failure of politicians to act - Wednesday 12 October 2022
- Unite chief says workers subjected to `a national pay cut’ - Tuesday 11 October 2022
- Unite chief: “If Liz Truss really wanted to help the UK economy she would be helping us get more money into workers’ pockets” - Wednesday 5 October 2022
- Unite for Affordable energy event - Saturday 1 October 2022 - coverage of some of the first actions taken by Unite for a Workers Economy
- Time to deliver results for the working class where politicians have failed - Thursday 29 September 2022 - Unite's Claire Peden writes in the Morning Star on the new initiative from Britain's and Ireland's largest trade union to extend and deepen the class struggle in and beyond the workplace.
- Unfettered profiteering sparks Scottish Power protest - Tuesday 27 September 2022
- Renationalise energy and no more budgets for the rich - Monday 26 September 2022
- Unite calls on Labour to fix broken economic model and back workers fighting for fair pay rises - Monday 26 September 2022
- The Chancellor’s mini-budget is a colossal warning to workers - Friday 23 September 2022
- Interest rate rise sends another `cold chill’ across UK households - Thursday 22 September 2022
- Government business energy plans are a taxpayer funded ‘panic measure’ as job fears grow, warns Unite - Wednesday 21 September 2022
- Scrapping bankers’ bonus cap a grave insult to workers - Thursday 15 September 2022
- Inflation: Current levels continue to threaten living standards of millions - Wednesday 14 September 2022
- Unite: Liz Truss energy bill plan ‘boosts profiteering’- Thursday 8 September 2022
- ‘Soaring’ Ofgem price cap fuelled by ‘rampant corporate profiteering’ says Unite -
Friday 26 August 2022 - On eve of new price cap Unite research confirms ‘rampant corporate profiteering’ fuelling soaring energy bills -
Thursday 25 August 2022 - Union hits out at another government assault on workers during cost-of-living crisis - Friday 19 August 2022 - Sharon Graham: “This government has made it very clear what it thinks of this country’s workers. P&O blatantly sacked nearly 800 workers without notice because it was cheaper to break the law and the Government saw no need to change it."
- Unite's power in the workplace spreads to battleground seats to create a Workers' Economy - Thursday 18 August 2022 - From workplace to community Unite is driving a UK-wide strategy to help bring change to ‘heartland’ communities following the failure of politicians to act.
- Inflation: Corporate greed driving price rises not wages - Wednesday 17 August 2022
- Unite statement on record fall in UK wages - Tuesday 16 August 2022
- Unite response to Labour energy proposals - 15 August 2022 - Unite chief Sharon Graham: “The case is being made before our own eyes that selling off our energy sector to the private profiteers has ended in tears. A piecemeal approach won’t work.”
- Interest rate rise spells misery for millions warns Unite - Thursday 4 August 2022
- Unite accuses BP of ‘unfettered profiteering’ - Tuesday 2 August 2022
- Unite will continue to resist attacks that make workers pay the price of the inflation crisis -Wednesday 20 July 2022
- Unite leader says, hundreds of disputes, involving tens of thousands of workers, will resist employers attacks on workers’ living standards - Friday 15 July 2022
- Unite to unveil giant ‘snakes and ladders’ game in Leeds to highlight pain of price rises - Wednesday 6 July 2022
- Workers have had enough - cap profiteering not workers’ rights, says Unite - Sunday 12 June 2022
- Wage restraint? Maybe it’s time we started talking about profiteering restraint - Thursday 9 June 2022
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Why Ofgem is failing and needs to take action
‘Rampant profiteering’: Unite asks Ofgem to cap power distributors’ profits after UK networks rake in £15.8bn, Sharon Graham says they’re holding the public to ransom
The companies responsible for bringing electricity to UK homes have been accused of “rampant profiteering” by a leading union that is calling for the energy regulator to cap their earnings.
- Why Ofgem is failing and needs to take action - Find out more in the Unite campaign update - November 2022
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#WorkersEconomy #CostOfGreedCrisis - Find out more in the Unite campaign update