Tag: #Unite4Better
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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 taxi drivers. “Those who work as private hire taxi drivers operate as self-employed contractors to…
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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 on the road. “Taxi drivers in Unite the union are getting organising to protect themselves…
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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 accepted by the workforce, ending the industrial dispute. “The workers at Allied Bakeries have voted…
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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 dismissed with eight offered employment under significantly reduced terms and conditions. “Unite has been highly…
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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 called out Belfast City Airport security company Mitie on their approach to their workforce at…
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Exploitation of young workers in ‘unpaid shifts’ now rampant across Northern Ireland hospitality sector
Unite exposes scale of use of unpaid shifts by unscrupulous bosses and demands fair pay for work performed In absence of legislation to outlaw practice, the only protection young workers have is to join a union and get organised to secure their rights June 24th: Neil Moore, Unite the union Hospitality Organiser in Northern Ireland…