‘Workers are holding their breath’
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Picking up last weekend’s press, I almost choked on my morning tea when I read that ‘Red Wall Tories’ were working to save UK aerospace. This was news to me – a...
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A nurse is for life...
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Last night, July 29, hundreds of London's NHS workers started their march to Downing Street from St Thomas' Hospital on the South Bank to protest about their pa...
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'It costs less to keep people off the dole'
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Government faces mounting pressure to extend furlough scheme
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Unite fears for vulnerable as shielding ends
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
At first being outside was terrifying. Masked and gloved up what would happen if I encountered another human being? Passers-by must have seen the fear in my eye...
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Increase in hunger 'miserable legacy' of pandemic
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
New gov't-commissioned review calls for free school meals expansion
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Pandemic public inquiry call
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Unite renews call for pandemic public inquiry, following MPs’ report into untested patients discharged to care homes
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NHS heroes in fight back stand
Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
Despite 500 NHS and care workers dying in the line of duty, Unite NHS members are now having to take action for their pay, their jobs and their very futures
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Catering staff at NHS trust 'thrown on the scrapheap'
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Barts’ bosses blasted over catering jobs axe
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Childcare crisis
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Sacked mums say lack of childcare provision played role in redundancies
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Early NHS pay rise call
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Anger over NHS pay sparks Downing Street march tomorrow
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'Gov't support must come now'
Monday, July 27th, 2020
Bus maker Alexander Dennis job losses ‘devastating blow’
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Earlier lockdown could have saved London bus drivers' lives
Monday, July 27th, 2020
Unite calls for action following review of high bus driver death rates from Covid-19
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UK may have to wait 4 years for full economic recovery
Monday, July 27th, 2020
New bleak economic forecast highlights need for furlough extension and other gov’t support
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'Warm words and applause are not enough'
Friday, July 24th, 2020
Unite calls for an early pay rise for all NHS workers
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Construction jobs portal 'cautiously welcomed'
Friday, July 24th, 2020
‘One stop shop’ for construction workers seeking jobs must be monitored for abuse
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'Incomprehensible' health visitor and school nurse job losses amid pandemic
Friday, July 24th, 2020
Unite slams planned job losses in Durham of those on public health frontline
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Heroes and zeroes
Friday, July 24th, 2020
UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid coronavirus crisis
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Contagion
Friday, July 24th, 2020
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
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