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Take bins back in-house call
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Bexley councillors have been urged to jettison the controversial Serco refuse contract, as about 140 refuse workers gear up for a strike ballot over health and ...
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‘Heathrow is exploiting the pandemic’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
At a meeting with Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) yesterday (Monday 5 October), MPs representing constituencies around the airport challenged chief executive officer...
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‘Grim news’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
The news that 140 jobs at Magellan Aerospace’s operation in Bournemouth will be lost when the site closes next February is ‘a devastating blow’ to the Dorset ec...
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Fuel drivers to strike?
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Fuel tanker drivers, employed by Hoyer Petrolog UK, and members of the Unite union, are balloting for industrial action in a dispute over job cuts and attacks o...
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‘A poverty of ambition’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compa...
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Bad day for the finance sector
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.
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Broken pay deal prompts strike
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Workers paid below industry standard at Leeds-based bus manufacturer Optare have voted in favour of strike action over the company’s ‘broken promise’ to provide...
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‘Thin gruel for fearful workers’
Monday, October 5th, 2020
“I’m afraid to say that when the country hungers for a hearty diet of jobs saving and creation, the chancellor has offered little more than thin gruel for fearf...
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Winter on the dole?
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Thirty years ago, Norman Lamont was telling us high unemployment was a ‘price worth paying’ for his head-banger economics. Now we have Rishi Sunak. A better c...
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‘Full on struggle to save jobs’
Monday, October 5th, 2020
The battle to save jobs is the most important social and economic issue emerging from the pandemic and we’re in a full-on struggle to save jobs across the econo...
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Bernard Matthews bus win
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Bernard Matthews has suspended fares on company-subsidised buses to all of its sites to help prevent the spread of coronavirus through car sharing, following pr...
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Workers face poverty in Heathrow fire and rehire storm
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Heathrow, one of the world’s largest airports, is facing a complete shutdown this autumn, as members of Unite prepare to ballot for strike action, over the comp...
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‘PM fails our people’
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Boris Johnson should swap the rhetoric on UK sovereignty and taking back control for real action, starting with insisting that UK steel is used throughout the c...
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Stop the ‘no deal car crash’
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Ministers need to put their foot on the accelerator to get a deal with the EU that safeguards the UK automotive industry – employing about 800,000 workers direc...
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Heroes and zeroes
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis
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We need our steel
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Steelworkers unite in Europe wide call for action to safeguard vital sector
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Deliver on pay pledge call
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Colleges must deliver on their promise to increase staff pay now the government has provided further education an extra £400m funding, said education unions inc...
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Celebrate!
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Celebrate the first day of this year's Black History Month and watch our short video below.
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