🚨BREAKING: In a historic first, the CAC have accepted a bid for union recognition at Amazon.

Workers in Coventry could become the first ever workforce at a UK Amazon site to win union recognition.

Recognition would enable collective bargaining over pay, terms and conditions.

📢💥Excited to announce publication of Trades Union Congress AI Bill in collaboration with AI: Equality, Data Protection and Human Rights Cloisters Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy! Drafted with multi-stakeholder advisory committee:
tuc.org.uk/research-analy…

Workers should not be fired for having a view about ethics in tech

Facts & Figures April 2024 is out now!

In this month's edition:
🚘 Saba Park Services workers win 26% pay deal
♀️ Gender pension gap analysis
📆 Negotiations at 2,000 Unite employers in April

Access it here: online.flippingbook.com/view/639350232/

Chatbot will assist workers in unionising workplaces
lrd.org.uk/free-read/chat…
General Federation of Trade Unions BFAWU ASLEF Organise Now!

'Global layoffs ... have made tech workers 'union conscious.' The fact is they are no different to other workers - they join unions for protection and representation, and to find collective and just solutions to problems.” Thanks Tony Burke for highlighting tech organising

.Unite the union: join a union will be at the forefront of the fight to save steelmaking in #Wales . In the crucial weeks to come, Tata Steel UK workers and Unite will put up picket lines to prevent the company from taking this disastrous path. #UKSteel ➡️ ft.com/content/832dfd…

Before you log off and enjoy a lovely long weekend, please register for our online talk 'AI: Threats & Opportunities for the Media' Festival of Debate on 25/04 6.00pm: festivalofdebate.com/2024/ai-threat….

AI: overhyped or the next big thing? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/techn…

🚨NEW LOCATION INFO - London March for Palestine

⏲️Saturday 13 April, 12PM
📍 Assemble Russell Square, London, marching to Parliament Square

Londoners, join us on Saturday when we march for Palestine as part of the national day of action. We demand our govt #StopArmingIsrael

Celebrating solidarity in our community and our workplaces!
🎈🎤🎸🎵 📣
👉Unions East Festival 2024👈
📅 Sunday 30 June
📍Leyton E10 unions-east.live

🗳️Have you registered to vote yet?

The deadline to register for the 2nd May elections in England and Wales is 16 April.

‼️Remember to bring photo ID!! You need ID to vote at a polling station.

📲 Find out more at unitetheunion.org/myvote

#DontLoseYourVoice #UKelections2024

#IWMD2024 is just a few weeks away. Here's 3 ways to get involved.

1. Organise an event in your workplace.
2. Spread the message by sharing this graphic.
3. Honour those we have lost by posting a tribute on the Trades Union Congress Workers Memorial Wall.

More info>> unitetheunion.org/iwmd

🚨📢 While EU legislators celebrate the adoption of the EU AI Act, we Amnesty International, alongside the EDRi-led coalition, demonstrate how the legislation does not go far enough to protect human rights 👇

amnesty.eu/news/eus-ai-ac…

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨

Health Workers For a Free Palestine are blockading NHS England HQ to protest their contract with Palantir, a US spy tech company that is resourcing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

Cancel the contract! ❌
No genocide enablers in the #NHS !

📅28 April is #InternationalWorkersMemorialDay , the day we remember workers lost to workplace illness or injury.

Organise and participate in #IWMD24 events as Unite recommits to fighting to keep workers safe.

🕯️Remember the Dead, ✊Fight for the Living.

This is a great resource, not just for union negotiators but for anyone looking to organise at work. The FlippingBook tool makes it really accessible. Dipped in and pulled out a fact: over half Unite's members are employed by firms based outside the UK 🤔

AI: Threats & Opportunities For The Media
Register now for the South Yorkshire Festival Of Debate (in partnership with Media North) panel debate on the Threats & Opportunities for media & digital workers of Artificial Intelligence.

powerinaunion.co.uk/ai-threats-opp…

Unite members lobbying Community Leisure UK, a GLL partner. The question to all partners is simple – is your organisation happy to buddy up with zero hour contract employers? Unite is lobbying all partners in support of GLL library workers.

.Unite the union: join a union stands in solidarity with the PGFTU and its members.