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‘Brutal pay cuts’
The Living Wage Foundation has been urged to end its accreditation of London-based lettings software provider Goodlord over ‘brutal’ £6,000 pay cuts that have forced staff to... Read More
Budget: has govt learnt anything from pandemic?
Will workers be paying the price of govt’s errors? Unite GS Len McCluskey writes
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Budget ‘must unite the whole country’
Ahead of the Budget on Wednesday (March 3), Unite is reiterating its calls to chancellor Rishi Sunak to take urgent and decisive action to protect... Read More
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Keeping those afloat from going adrift
Unite warned today (March 1) that plans by the London Resort – the Disney style theme park due to be built in the Kent estuary... Read More
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London bus strikes latest
London bus passengers should brace for further severe disruption this week, Unite has warned, after fresh strikes in a dispute over pay and terms and... Read More
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Cruise ship accommodation plan warning
Unite has warned that plans by the London Resort, the Disney style theme park due to be built in the Kent estuary, to house 2,000... Read More
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Boss’s shame as staff demand £170k in unpaid wages
Serious questions continue to be asked into allegations that the owner of Lunar Automotive, previously based in Preston, has not paid his workforce to the... Read More
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Manchester mayor urged to intervene ahead of bus strikes
Unite, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham urging him to intervene,... Read More
Coronavirus News
Pay delay for council workers a ‘disgrace’
Local government employers must speed up the pay process so that council workers and school staff – who have sacrificed so much during the pandemic... Read More
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Sainsbury’s ‘pathetic’ pay rise slammed
Sainsbury’s 2021 pay offer to staff – a 20p increase to £9.50 an hour – has been ‘put to shame’ by Morrisons’ pledge to pay... Read More
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Britain should not support Aussie rightwinger for top job at OECD
The TUC has intervened in a row over the appointment of the new secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urging foreign... Read More
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Crossrail investigation call
Unite is demanding that Crossrail takes immediate action to ensure that taxpayers money stops being misused and workers denied basic employment rights, on the troubled... Read More
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Home insulation must be top priority to tackle climate emergency
The government must strengthen the Green Homes Grant and bring it under public control, or else risk failing to meet vital and legally-binding carbon targets... Read More
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Metroline strike action ballot
Passenger welfare and staff safety are behind a re-ballot of more than 4,000 bus drivers in London for strike action over the controversial ‘remote sign-on’... Read More
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‘Plane wrong’ pay disparity
Strike action by Babcock Aerospace workers at RAF Leeming, near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, over a ‘plane wrong’ £5,000 pay disparity will increase in length... Read More
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‘Difference between heating and eating’
The pressure on chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) indefinitely in next week’s budget has been reinforced by a... Read More
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Big brother fears in bus strike CCTV frenzy
Unite has warned that Manchester bus operator Go North West appears to be more intent on monitoring every movement of their workers, than resolving the... Read More
Comment Coronavirus
‘Trojan Horse’ for more NHS privatisation?
The government’s plans to jettison the ‘reforms’ of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which apply to England-only, must not become a Trojan Horse... Read More
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Unite slams govt plans for private sector bio-med labs
Unite, which represents over 100,000 health care workers, has today (February 24) added its voice to warnings that the government’s plans to create a mega... Read More
Coronavirus News Feature
‘I don’t know how I will cope’
Unite has reiterated its call for the government to cancel a proposed cut of £20 a week to Universal Credit payments after a new survey... Read More