To cut a long story short – we won!
Friday, October 20th, 2023
Hundreds of Unite members at homelessness charity St Mungo’s have just ended their long-running strike after accepting an inflation beating pay increase. After...
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'Liverpool's potential is huge'
Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
Eurovision may be over - but Unite's UnionVision Liverpool hospitality campaign is only just getting started
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Lorry drivers 'voting with their feet' over low pay
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Relaxing immigration rules for lorry drivers is a “sticking plaster’ and won’t solve industry’s problems, warns Unite
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Great Bear lorry drivers secure bumper pay deal
Thursday, July 1st, 2021
Great Bear lorry drivers on Port Sunlight Unilever contract secure pay deal that sees their pay rise by 12 per cent
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'Just not good enough'
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
Unite: re-heated watchdog proposals fail to address biggest issue facing UK workers – fire and rehire
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‘Where’s the hope?’
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Labour councillor Ross Willmott, who’s standing as a Labour candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, has bee...
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'The forgotten key workers'
Friday, March 26th, 2021
UniteLIVE highlights the abuses migrant workers face amid pandemic
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The dark underbelly of the food industry
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Recently, a number of celebrity chefs and restauranteurs, including Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, signed a letter calling on Boris Johnson to ba...
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Meat plant deep clean after new Covid cluster found
Friday, August 21st, 2020
After 35 staff tested positive for the virus the pork meat processing plant will now close for a deep clean this weekend. It’s understood testing and tracing wi...
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Construction jobs portal 'cautiously welcomed'
Friday, July 24th, 2020
‘One stop shop’ for construction workers seeking jobs must be monitored for abuse
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'They're left totally in the dark'
Friday, July 17th, 2020
In part two of our series on rural poverty, we highlight the plight of migrant workers
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‘A disaster waiting to happen’
Monday, July 13th, 2020
For many months Unite’s food and agriculture activists have been extremely concerned over the way workers are being packed into factories and field, many of the...
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Three food processing plants close amid outbreak fears
Friday, June 19th, 2020
Employers have ‘duty’ to safeguard staff and public as more meat factory coronavirus outbreaks ‘suspected’
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Agency workers pay victory
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Employment agency workers contracted to provide refuse collection services in Sandwell, West Midlands, are being paid 100 per cent of their wages during lockdow...
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Coronavirus news round-up
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
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Ryanair pay victory
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Unite signs bumper pay deal with Ryanair
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Wage theft scandal
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
One in four workers on minimum wage illegally underpaid
4 min
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