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Airbus Filton first responders strike postponed for talks

Friday, November 27th, 2020

Securitas first responders working at Airbus’ Filton site have postponed strikes for last minute talks to go ahead

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'We really don't know how we survived'

Friday, November 27th, 2020

At the height of the pandemic at Whittington Hospital, photographer Slater King unearths stories of grief, trauma and triumph

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'Dereliction of duty'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Unite slams failure to boost sick pay with advent of new Covid-19 tier restrictions

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cider

'Preparing to battle'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Heineken Hereford staff fighting huge ‘sack and sign’ contract cuts

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bin strike waste refuse

'We won't be treated this way any longer'

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Doncaster Christmas bin strikes announced as Suez bullying and harassment dispute deepens

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Government's 'levelling up agenda in tatters'

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak fails key workers in latest spending review

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'Act of industrial self-mutilation'

Wednesday, November 25th, 2020

Unite slams Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick Christmas lockout and offshoring decision

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walkers

'Festive crisp famine' warning

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Warrington-based Eddie Stobart drivers on Walkers contract ballot for industrial action

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Workers must have a collective say over economic recovery

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite AGS Steve Turner calls for national recovery council where workers lead the way

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Chancellor has 'the power and the responsibility to renew our country'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite calls on chancellor to use spending review to fend off mass unemployment and build back a fairer economy

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Unite GS to chancellor: 'In this time like no other we need action like no other'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite GS Len McCluskey writes to chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of spending review

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Who will remember them?

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

On sea beds of the Aegean. Of the Mediterranean.

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felixstowe docks

PPE logjam scandal

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Gov’t wasting more than £1m a day as 11,000 shipping containers of PPE sit idle at Felixstowe port

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construction

Stricter measures needed to combat Covid on construction sites

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Unite calls for separate procedures to cover both indoor and outdoor construction work to stop virus transmission

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'Why is it that we pick the pockets of the least well paid?'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite AGS Gail Cartmail tears to shreds arguments in favour of public sector pay freeze

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'Kick in the teeth'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite slams government plans after reports of an upcoming public sector pay freeze

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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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Unite statement on Saudi Arabian human rights abuses

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Ahead of G20 summit, Unite and other unions call on UK gov't to raise concerns over human rights abuses by Saudi authorities

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