Heathrow: Don't cut our pay plea
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Last month Heathrow Airports Ltd (HAL) issued a section 188 notice beginning a process which could result in over 4,000 workers directly employed by the airport...
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Heathrow’s staff pay cuts 'owes more to boardroom greed than this virus'
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive paymen...
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XPO EXPOSED
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Workers at XPO Logistics report unsafe working conditions, wage theft, misclassification and dangerous pandemic response in analysis of company’s operations in ...
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Anxious workforce in Covid-19 outbreak
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
The Seagate workforce, based in Derry/Londonderry has been left anxious over an inadequate management response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Staff have been informe...
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‘A bitter blow’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Responding to the announcement today (October 7) that Manchester Airport is intending to make dramatic job cuts Unite, the principal aviation union, has said it...
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‘Nurture newer voices’
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
The decision taken by the union’s governing body, its Executive Council, will see Unite’s affiliation to the party drop by 10 per cent, or 50,000 affiliates – a...
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‘From strength to strength’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Unite’s Unity over Division (UoD) campaign has received yet another boost after Caerphilly County Borough Council in Wales became the second employer to sign th...
8 min
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Take bins back in-house call
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Bexley councillors have been urged to jettison the controversial Serco refuse contract, as about 140 refuse workers gear up for a strike ballot over health and ...
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‘Heathrow is exploiting the pandemic’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
At a meeting with Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) yesterday (Monday 5 October), MPs representing constituencies around the airport challenged chief executive officer...
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‘Grim news’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
The news that 140 jobs at Magellan Aerospace’s operation in Bournemouth will be lost when the site closes next February is ‘a devastating blow’ to the Dorset ec...
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Fuel drivers to strike?
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Fuel tanker drivers, employed by Hoyer Petrolog UK, and members of the Unite union, are balloting for industrial action in a dispute over job cuts and attacks o...
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‘A poverty of ambition’
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compa...
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Bad day for the finance sector
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.
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Broken pay deal prompts strike
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Workers paid below industry standard at Leeds-based bus manufacturer Optare have voted in favour of strike action over the company’s ‘broken promise’ to provide...
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‘Thin gruel for fearful workers’
Monday, October 5th, 2020
“I’m afraid to say that when the country hungers for a hearty diet of jobs saving and creation, the chancellor has offered little more than thin gruel for fearf...
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Winter on the dole?
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Thirty years ago, Norman Lamont was telling us high unemployment was a ‘price worth paying’ for his head-banger economics. Now we have Rishi Sunak. A better c...
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‘Full on struggle to save jobs’
Monday, October 5th, 2020
The battle to save jobs is the most important social and economic issue emerging from the pandemic and we’re in a full-on struggle to save jobs across the econo...
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Bernard Matthews bus win
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Bernard Matthews has suspended fares on company-subsidised buses to all of its sites to help prevent the spread of coronavirus through car sharing, following pr...
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