Tag Archives: Unite

Cardiff bin workers in Unite the Union have voted by 98% to strike against management bullying and the use of agencies. This massive vote on a 77% turnout follows years of bullying by management. The bin workers earned huge respect from the public all the way through the pandemic as they kept this vital service going – even at the ...

Winter gritters working for Carmarthenshire County council have won big concessions from the council who will now have to adhere to an agreement to pay decent shift allowances that they have been trying to cut back. Members of GMB, Unison and Unite have taken three nights of strike action and operated nine picket lines in a dispute caused by the ...

Pickets were out for a second day today at Carmarthenshire County council depots Nantglas, Crosshands, Cillefwr, Carmarthen and Llandovery in a dispute by gritting crews. Gritters at are taking 12 days of strike action in a dispute over the failure of the council to adhere to an agreement on standing down workers after being on call. Mark Evans, secretary of ...

After 17 days of strike action Stagecoach members of Unite at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots have voted to accept a deal that wins a £1 an hour rise to £10.50, backdated to April. Attacks on sick pay and rights for new starters were also fought off. Stagecoach had offered a measly £10.10 an hour which would be paid for ...

By Dave Reid Stagecoach drivers in Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr are standing firm for a decent pay rise for all workers at the depots. Today on the 17th day of strike action the managing director came out of his office to discuss with pickets. The strikers made it absolutely clear that they will stand firm. The strike has been solid ...

By Dave Reid Over 200 stagecoach drivers at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots, members of Unite, have completed their sixth day of strike action, the first of six phases. The next strike day is due to be Friday 29th October unless the company gives into the union demands for a rise to £10.50 an hour from £9.50. The company has ...

It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4.00 am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise. Over 250 bus drivers, members of Unite the Union at the three Stagecoach depots in the Gwent valleys have started 16 days  strike action to fight for a basic pay rise. Bus ...

Carmarthenshire Unison, GMB and Unite has appealed for solidarity to force Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire county council to instruct Cwm Environmental, the waste disposal company wholly owned by the council, to agree to a trade union recognition agreement (TURA). The Carmarthenshire council unions are appealing for support for their online petition. This is their appeal letter: “Unison, GMB and Unite, the ...

By Rob Williams The sparks, rank and file construction electricians in Unite, have yet again defeated the de-skilling agenda of the big electrical contractors. EDF Energy, Balfour Beatty and NG Baileys opened up their offensive almost a decade to the day when workers kicked off their ultimately successful 6-month fight against the BESNA contract, the last main attempt by the ...

Over 40 sparks descended on the Bouygues site at Cardiff University where NG Baileys is working. NG Baileys and Balfour Beatty have been trying to use trainees at reduced rates of pay to install the electrical system at the giant Hinkley Point nuclear power station construction site as so-called Electrical Support Operatives (ESO), which would then be rolled out across ...