#HeartUnions Week: Glee Club recognition win
Monday, February 12th, 2024
During #HeartUnions Week, the TUC highlights Unite’s recognition win at the Glee Club in Cardiff
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Searched: Voluntary sector
Oxfam strike suspended
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
News just in – strike action being taken by Unite Oxfam members has been suspended after talks resulted in an improved pay offer being made.
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Oxfam staff strike
Monday, December 11th, 2023
Set up in 1941, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief as it was originally known is now a global anti-poverty movement. Over 81 years later it has shops and of...
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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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Today's top stories...Red wall voter fears over Three-Vodafone merger
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Red Wall voters want UK government to stop dangerous Three-Vodafone merger
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'Only the beginning for us'
Friday, August 18th, 2023
Unite rep and Glasgow Film Theatre worker Katie Mack on how she and her colleagues secured union recognition - and why all hospitality workers should join a union
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UniteLive's stories of the year - chefs demand better
Saturday, December 25th, 2021
On the third day of Christmas – Unite calls for a better deal for chefs in fight against excessive working hours
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Royal Mail managers – Covid’s unsung heroes
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Christmas was once a ‘busy’ period for Unite’s Royal Mail manager members, who ensure the cornerstone of UK communication, the Universal Service Obligation to d...
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Winding down furlough creating 'unnecessary harm'
Monday, August 2nd, 2021
Quarter of a million jobs at risk as employers asked to contribute more to furlough scheme
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Anger at Lloyds bank branch closures
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Lloyds Banking Group announces closure of 44 bank branches
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Ministers in soup over pressures on chefs
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Ministers need to tighten up the legislation to stop chefs - one of the groups of employees most hit by Covid-19 – from being pressurised into working more than...
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Unite urges govt to be careful over compulsory vacs
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has urged the government to carefully examine the pitfalls, as well as the advantages, of requiring care home staff to be compulsorily vaccinated for Covi...
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'Devastating news for E.ON workers'
Friday, November 20th, 2020
Nearly 700 job losses at energy giant E.ON ‘grim news’, says Unite
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Heroes and zeroes
Friday, October 16th, 2020
UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis
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Cornwall 'hung out to dry'
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Cornwall’s Tory MPs ‘failing to open the batting’ for cash-strapped public sector and economy
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‘A bitter blow’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Responding to the announcement today (October 7) that Manchester Airport is intending to make dramatic job cuts Unite, the principal aviation union, has said it...
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Stobart job losses 'latest blow for airport workers'
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
Stobart Aviation Services to cut ground crew jobs at Manchester, Southend and Stansted Airports
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'Chaos and confusion'
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
Confidence in RSPCA chief executive draining away as redundancy process 'effectively collapses'
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