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'Amazon workers need an independent voice'

Friday, April 30th, 2021

Amazon profits triple amid reports of union busting and poor treatment

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Mental health issues surging at work

Friday, April 30th, 2021

Unite director of research John Earls: 'We need stronger trade unions to create healthier, safer workplaces and a fairer post-Covid economy'

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Public 'firmly against' fire and rehire tactics

Friday, April 30th, 2021

New poll shows seven in ten back ban for ‘bully boy’ fire and rehire

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‘All one multi-ethnic working class’

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

In this ‘tale of two cities’ Oxford Unite member Dr Hosnieh Djafari Marbini, re-standing as a city councillor, believes that local people working together can t...

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‘An incredible memorial’

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Yesterday (April 28) was Workers’ Memorial Day. As part of the union’s observation of this date when we remember all those who have lost their lives at work, Un...

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Coffee workers’ terms row May Day demo

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Workers at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute with a protest on Saturday (May 1), followed up with a...

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Don’t underestimate our Sarah

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

For Unite member Sarah Murphy, who is standing as a Welsh Labour candidate for the Bridgend constituency at the Senedd election, hard work and trade unionism ar...

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‘The continuing carousel of sleaze and cronyism allegations’

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

There usually comes a time in the life-time of a long-serving government when there is a light bulb moment which turns out to be terminal for its popularity and...

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‘I’m the most unlikely person to stand’

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Carol Mochan, who’s standing to be a Scottish Labour Party candidate in the Scottish Parliament, may not be your usual career politician - but she’s not going t...

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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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'I am living it and I care'

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Nikki Coles, a Unite Community member, who has lived in Fratton, Portsmouth for the past nine years describes herself as just an ordinary mum, but she knows fir...

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Workers suffering mental health ‘epidemic’

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow’s International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28) workers are suffering a mental health ‘epidemic’, a UK and Ireland-wide survey of Unite workp...

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Failed pay promises

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Biomedical scientists have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing during the past year.

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Deeply disturbing

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Agriculture has long been considered the most dangerous sector in the UK, with fatality rates 18 times the national average.

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Remembered and honoured

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Tomorrow (Wednesday 28 April) on International Workers’ Memorial Day, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, will join Unite families who have lost loved ones ...

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Outlaw ruthless ‘fire and rehire’ practices

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Fire and rehire has been described by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey as being a ‘disease that’s ripping through our workplaces’.

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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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