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London United bus workers out in full force on the picket line
Friday, April 16th, 2021
London United bus workers out in full force on strike in ongoing dispute over pay
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Black Friday 1921: One hundred years on the unemployed still need to organise
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Mention Black Friday today and most people will conjure up images of bargain-hunting shoppers grappling with each other for discounted consumer goods. But 100 y...
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‘Fighting its’ members corner’
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Staff members at The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Unite being their recognised trade union to represent ...
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Fancy a coffee?
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Nearly 300 employees at the JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) site in Banbury, Oxfordshire, will start a continuous overtime ban from Saturday 1 May over ‘fire and reh...
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Support pandemic domestic abuse victims call
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
The increase in domestic abuse across the general population caused by the pressures of the pandemic has prompted Unite the union to write to all 32 London boro...
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Fresh London bus strikes as peace talks fail
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Londoners face fresh public transport disruption as Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by London United, a subsidiary of the F...
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‘Leeching the public purse’
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Serco civil enforcement officers in Ealing have voted to strike over the targeting of union activists in the latest in a series of industrial disputes to hit th...
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'There has to be a reckoning'
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
The revelations over scandal-hit Greensill Capital and the role of David Cameron should set alarm bells ringing about the accelerating pace of NHS privatisation...
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Short notice shifts are damaging workers’ health and families
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite has warned that the failure of many businesses to provide adequate notice of shift patterns is damaging workers’ health and destroying family lives.
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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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Outlaw fire and rehire plea to Mayors
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Unite today (Thursday April 15) called on the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to publicly back a declaration to ou...
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GS election 2021
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Yesterday (April 14) the Unite Executive Council set in hand the election process for a new Unite general secretary.
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Hospitality is back – but job loss pain remains
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Pubs and restos are now open outdoors – but 600k jobs in industry have gone
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‘Strength and solidarity’ of members hailed
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Strikes at aerospace parts firm SPS Technologies have been called off after a deal was reached to end ‘fire and rehire’ threats that would have resulted in its ...
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Remote sign on should be ‘jettisoned’ call
Monday, April 12th, 2021
More than 4,000 bus drivers working for Metroline in London have overwhelmingly voted for strike action over the controversial ‘remote sign-on’ policy, Unite sa...
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Unite warns Amazon against using anti-union tactics
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Amazon urged to commit to declaration of neutrality amid Unite campaign to give Amazon workers a real voice
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Urgent support for aviation call
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Commenting on the government’s plan to force holidaymakers to pay around £120 each for Covid tests to travel abroad this summer, Unite assistant general secreta...
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Don’t push workers into poverty
Friday, April 9th, 2021
A London tour guide approached me recently near to the office. He was a Unite member and wanted to know what we have been doing for the past year to help sel...
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