Category Archives: Campaign for Decent Pay
Unite pickets placed on Belfast Taxis at 8.30am tomorrow morning in industrial dispute
In pay talks, Taxi bosses tie minimalist pay offer to significant changes to workers’ terms and conditions Unite Regional Officer, Sean Smyth, confirmed his union’s membership would be picketing outside Belfast Taxi from 8.30am tomorrow morning [Wednesday March 14th]: “Unite … Continue reading
Moy Park and Tayto on list of employers fined for failing to pay their workforce the legal minimum
338 employees at Moy Park denied minimum pay do not work at Unite sites but union seeks urgent meeting with CEO for explanation Wealthy Hutchinson family must answer why their company, Tayto, has had to be fined to pay their … Continue reading
Women in Northern Ireland continue to be denied rights and protections afforded to women in all other parts of UK
Westminster must legislate to extend gender pay gap disclosure duty to employers in Northern Ireland March 8th: Speaking on International Women’s Day, Unite Regional Women’s & Equalities Officer, Taryn Trainor, called on Westminster to legislate to vindicate the rights and … Continue reading
Belfast City Council must vindicate employment rights of outsourced Leisure workers
Outsourced management company Greenwich Leisure Ltd effectively threatens 49 leisure workers around city with redundancy unless they accept reduced T&Cs contracts In addition more than twenty former Andersonstown Road Leisure Centre staff seeking right to return on same conditions of … Continue reading
Workers maintaining roads and water courses are being denied fair holiday pay
Unite questions whether failure to address payments irregularity is due to absence of an Executive Minister At least one thousand workers across Roads Service, Rivers Agency and Forestry Service denied holiday pay based on Working Time Regulations act December 13th: … Continue reading









