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'No-go zone for disabled people'

Monday, September 11th, 2023

Unite delegate Martyn Gwyther warns ticket office closures would make train travel 'impossible for many'

3 min

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'The days of pay secrecy are over'

Monday, October 24th, 2022

Unite members at IT firm Fujitsu in Manchester celebrate key pay transparency win in fight for fair pay

6 min

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'Driving the agenda forward massively'

Wednesday, October 19th, 2022

Unite delegate Dave Allan speaks out in defence of social model of disability and social model language

3 min

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hackney

Hackney council workers to strike

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022

Hackney council workers down tools over “insulting” 1.75% pay offer

3 min

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'They should spend a day in our shoes'

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Universal Credit fight not over as Unite Community hits the road on Christmas tour of Tory 'Red Wall' seats

9 min

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‘A testament to the breathtaking strategic approaches’

Friday, December 10th, 2021

Fifty years on veterans of the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) “work-in” have called on young workers to take inspiration from their legendary dispute when ...

7 min

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Leeds taxi rank protest

Friday, September 10th, 2021

‘Intolerable obstacles’ at Leeds station face disabled and elderly travellers as taxi rank is set to move, Unite warns

5 min

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Boss’s shame as staff demand £170k in unpaid wages

Monday, March 1st, 2021

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 tune ...

4 min

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'Difference between heating and eating'

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

Need for chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend £20-a-week Universal Credit boost indefinitely underpinned by Unite survey

5 min

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Wage theft scandal

Wednesday, January 13th, 2021

A probe called for into the boss of Preston firm where workers are owed up to £170,000 in unpaid wages

4 min

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‘Every death is a tragedy’

Monday, July 20th, 2020

“Independent, credible studies such as ones by the University College London and the University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine hav...

7 min

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‘Pick up and carry forward Sean’s work’

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

“We will mark Sean’s passing properly when it is possible to do so,” said Len McCluskey, “but the greatest memorial to his life and work must be to pick up and ...

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True human cost of Covid-19

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Unite workplace reps are at the forefront of dealing with the crisis at work across all sectors of the economy, and a report published this week based on a surv...

6 min

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'Never again!'

Monday, January 27th, 2020

Unite calls on everyone to 'stand together' on Holocaust Memorial Day 2020

7 min

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'We are worth it'

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Local authority workers demand a fair pay rise after a decade of austerity

5 min

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School bus pay victory

Wednesday, January 8th, 2020

Hackney school bus staff dispute ends with pay and agency worker win

3 min

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