March/April 2013 The magazine for Unite members uniteWORKS News 4 Comment


GS Len McCluskey writes 4 News in pictures


Big stories in big pictures


8 Top stories Exactly that


Real lives


18 Family at benefit breaking point


Unite’s Counihan family fights benefits injustice


20 Welfare – the truth The cuts will affect us all


22 Cuts and losses Members fear looming poverty from unfair cuts


24 Spare room madness The bedroom tax


26 The big benefits change


Get ready for it


28 Working for the regime


The view from benefits office staff


29 Let them eat soup Food banks on the rise


34 Unite Life Uphill struggle


3 uniteWORKS March/April 2013


17 Bad blood in Milton Keynes


Biomed staff pay docked – over tea


33 Unite Agenda Order your


Morning Star


12 Sector focus Nuclear storm


Contents Features


14 Scandal which must be exposed


Inquiry call into blacklisting Plus


30 Unite Review Spirit of ’45


32 Just for fun


All the puzzles, all the prizes


Opinion 31 Soapbox


Your say your way


31 Your letters Over to you


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