'We'll be fighting tooth and nail for our members'
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Unite vows to fight to redeploy all members after Sainsbury’s announces 3,500 job cuts
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‘People need more than short-term sticking plasters’
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Commenting in response to the Chancellor’s latest announcement (today, Thursday November 5) of additional financial support for business and workers in lockdown...
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The dark underbelly of the food industry
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Recently, a number of celebrity chefs and restauranteurs, including Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, signed a letter calling on Boris Johnson to ba...
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Major job losses announced at LBG
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Unite brands 1,000 LBG job cuts a 'shameful decision'
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Heathrow catering firm named and shamed
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
Heathrow catering company DO & CO snubs furlough extension and plans to sack more than 1,000 workers
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'Skills, confidence and opportunities'
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
For more than 20 years, the Union Learning Fund has improved people’s life chances. Now it is under threat – here’s how you can help
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School support staff and nurses' safety paramount
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
School support staff must be fully protected or action will be taken, warns Unite
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Biomedical scientists being 'ripped off'
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Biomedical scientists carrying out Covid-19 tests at Lancashire NHS trust ‘short-changed’ by £7,000-a-year
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Covid by nation
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
As you will be aware England will go into a second lockdown from 00:01 GMT Thursday November 5. Information from the Cabinet Office on the new national restric...
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'Stop gap deal'
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Unite cautiously welcomes TfL funding deal – but calls for long-term plan
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'We cannot let another bad boss win'
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
Unite’s Wayne King: standing up to Heathrow bosses ‘about fairness in challenging times’
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UK faces ‘a winter of shrunken incomes and punishing uncertainty’ warns Unite
Saturday, October 31st, 2020
As the Jobs Retention Scheme closes the leader of the country’s leading trades union has called on the government to give an exhausted country some hope by brin...
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‘Test and trace’ failure – another nail in NHS’ coffin?
Friday, October 30th, 2020
As the UK population faces Covid-19 restrictions until next spring, the mistakes in the government’s ‘test and trace’ policy have been cruelly exposed and there...
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The word is on the streets - stop these swingeing pay cuts
Friday, October 30th, 2020
He continued, “We are calling on Heathrow Airport boss John Holland-Kaye to use HAL’s cash reserves’ mountain to protect airport jobs, rather than focus exclusi...
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Make a difference to others this Christmas
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Unite launches Christmas appeal for struggling families – and Unite AGS Steve Turner shows how we can all help. He writes:
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‘Timing of the decision is bizarre in the extreme’
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
The government’s decision to axe the Union Learning Fund (ULF) has been met with growing opposition from major employers’ organisations and skills bodies.
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Short time working – join the debate
Thursday, October 29th, 2020
There’s no doubt that the outbreak of Covid-19 has changed many things about the way we work, whether that be in the factory or the field, in the office or in ...
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Use ‘cash mountain’ for staff call
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) needs to dip into its cash mountain to protect airport jobs during the pandemic, after its boss boasted that it had reserves for the ...
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