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🔥 Village Strike 🔥
Following 3 weeks of continuous strike action members at @Village_Hotels in Govan have won a 10% pay-rise backdated to April 2024 (with all tax/NI paid) & an end to zero hour contracts.
Their fight for full equal pay and the real living wage continues!
Unite Hospitality retweeted
📢 Ahead of #IDAHOBIT, the CGU LGBTI Committee warns that attacks on LGBTI rights signal wider democratic decline. Working together for the common good — while celebrating the diversity that makes us stronger — remains essential. ✊🏾
➡️ lgbtiworkers.org/resources/n…
🎵 Union Busting Is Disgusting 🎶
Incredible solidarity from the people of Manchester last night in support of our leaders at Kimpton Clocktower after they were suspended for minor infractions by IHG days after lodging a collective grievance re: working conditions and for union recognition.
To prevent further escalation, senior management at the hotel must reinstate our reps and meet with our members to discuss these serious issues and a pathway to union recognition.
484 workers sacked.
15 minute teams call with CEO.
25 minutes notice.
Cameras turned off.
No questions allowed.
BrewDog are a national disgrace and we won’t stop until those responsible are held accountable: legally and financially.
Tilray Brands enters agreement to acquire @BrewDog’s key U.S. assets, expanding its U.S. craft beer platform.
Learn more: ir.tilray.com/news-releases/… $TLRY
Workers at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester city centre have taken the historic decision to unionise at one of the largest hotel chains in the world✊
In the days after submitting a collective grievance, staff faced derogatory comments for engaging in Union activity and refusal from management to even consider the request for formal union recognition - a basic workers’ right.
More seriously, they believe they are being subject to Union Victimisation through suspected breach of surveillance laws and the suspension of a team member involved in the union.
Three workers involved in the campaign have said:
"Breaking our backs for lazy management that don’t care about our wellbeing in and out of work has to stop. Having our concerns repeatedly ignored has forced us to join together to fight for a better workplace."
"Hospitality workers face some of the lowest pay and worst working conditions in the UK. We are just asking for basic things like respect & dignity"
“IHG had a 13% increase in operating profit to $1.27 billion in 2025 yet have chosen to to union bust instead of engage with the real concerns of it's staff"
Our union is calling for Kimpton Hotel management to acknowledge the collective grievances and open discussion with their staff 📣
Support their campaign 👇
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🚨 The way in which workers have been treated by @brewdogofficial is nothing short of a national disgrace and the Directors responsible must be held to account.
We are now working with members to ensure that they receive everything they are entitled to.
Why does the press know more than workers about the sale of their own employer?
Workers @BrewDog have still not been told anything other than to be prepared - with 30 minutes notice - for a call with CEO.
Even in the 11th hour of this sale, senior management is failing in its legal and moral duty to consult with the workers who built this business about their own jobs.
A national disgrace.
Revealed: Tilray Brands’ acquisition of BrewDog will include its Ellon brewery in Scotland, alongside most of the company’s assets in the UK, US and Australia, although some of its British bars will be left behind and not form part of the deal. More on my @SkyNews blog soon.
We can confirm that Unite the union have formally reported @Village_Hotels
and @mintpeople_jobs to the @biztradegovuk for unlawful use of agency labour during lawful industrial action.
Village continue to spend a fortune on scab labour, including flying staff to Glasgow from sites across the country for extended stays rather than meet our members demands for fair and equal pay.
If money is not a problem for @Village_Hotels and #Blackstone then why won’t this hugely profitable company pay young workers equally at the real living wage?!
📢 Big news coming out of @villagehotels in Leeds 🚨
Senior management had refused to meet workers collectively but have been forced to pay-out £££s after 2/3 of workers voted for strike action.
🚨Breaking. Pizza Express, Norwich St Benedict’s.
👉Senior management refuse to negotiate over long standing issues on victimisation, rotas, contracts & overtime.
👉We will be looking to publicly escalate unless @PizzaExpress come back with an improved offer.
@UniteLondonEast
Unite Hospitality retweeted
This dispute is a story about a group of young, low paid workers saying enough is enough. They are fighting back and they have @unitetheunion's unstinting support every step of the way. #JobsPayConditions
Unite Hospitality retweeted
Village Hotels CEO Gary Davis said ‘Money isn’t an issue on the Blackstone.’
So, why is the company not paying all staff a real living wage? 😳
@FairHospitality rep Daniel tells us why this group of young workers are striking 📹
Unite Hospitality retweeted
Yesterday, our members at @vuecinemas St Enoch’s initiated the first cinema strike in Scottish history.
They fight for the real living wage, safe transport home, and trade union recognition.
Get down to Osbourne St to show your support. Daily from 15:00!
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Striking workers at @villagehotels are calling for mass support to help win their historic fight for equal pay, the real living wage & union recognition
Join them on the picket this Thursday from 5pm outside the Govan hotel to hear from workers & very special @zarahsultana
Unite Hospitality retweeted
Unite’s members at @Village_Hotels in Leeds are fighting for decency, fairness and equality in the workplace. The fact is that Village Hotels is refusing to pay its workers the real living wage. This is an incredibly wealthy business refusing to pay low paid workers what they deserve. It is shameful and unacceptable.
@unitetheunion will fully support the Village Hotels workers in their brave fight for better #JobsPayConditions
The first cinema strike to hit Britain for almost a decade; 80% of workers at @vuecinemas in Glasgow walked out yesterday and crippled their flagship venue.
What do they want? A wage they can live on and transport home from a company that made £25m in profit last year alone!
Unite Hospitality retweeted
🪧Unite’s members at VUE are taking a brave stand against this very wealthy company in what will be the first strike action at a major Scottish cinema chain.
@vuecinemas St Enoch’s workers have @unitetheunion's full support in their courageous fight for better #JobsPayConditions
“We’re the first @Starbucks workers to go on strike in the UK and we won’t be the last!”
From LA to Glasgow, workers have sent a clear message to one of the biggest corporations in the world - we will not accept unfair labour practices anymore.
#nocontractnocoffee
Unite Hospitality retweeted
Solidarity to all the Starbucks workers striking from Unite East Midlands Hospitality ✊️
#NoContractNoCoffee
