Tag Archives: #Unite4Better
Stormont must extend income guarantee to self-employed to protect private hire taxi drivers
Taxi drivers face pauperisation from depot-rent and car-rent charges at time of sharp downturn in fares Unite Regional Community Coordinator, Albert Hewitt, called on the Ministers in the Stormont Executive to intervene to extend the Coronavirus income guarantee to … Continue reading
Private hire taxi drivers seek three-month holiday on depot-rents from taxi company bosses as Coronavirus impacts income
Taxi drivers across Northern Ireland are organising in Unite the union to defend their livelihoods Unite Regional Community Coordinator, Albert Hewitt, called on the owners of taxi companies operating across Northern Ireland to suspend charges and help their drivers stay … Continue reading
Workers at Allied Bakeries vote to accept improved pay offer and end industrial action
Result confirms that union-organised workforces can win Susan Fitzgerald, Regional Coordinating Officer for Unite, commended the workforce at Allied Bakeries in Northern Ireland whose decisive and powerful strike action on Sunday won a significantly improved pay offer which was subsequently … Continue reading
Nicholson & Bass workers print workers seek justice after being laid-off with no notice or redundancy payments
Unite lodges legal claims for workforce at former Belfast printers over unfair dismissal Regional Officer for Unite, Brian Hewitt, confirmed that his union would be initiating legal claims for workers at Nicholson and Bass fourteen of whom have been recently … Continue reading
Workers ‘used and unappreciated’ by Mitie security while Belfast City Airport contests for ‘Airport of the World’ award
In Unite survey, airport security workers report health and safety concerns; 94 percent ‘undervalued’ by their employer Some Mitie security officers expected to work eight and a half hours shifts without access to drinking water Unite Regional Officer, George Brash … Continue reading









