‘Bringing both sides of the community together’

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. B...

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Fat cats cashing in on Covid

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Some big companies have cashed in on pandemic bonanza but are still slashing jobs - UniteLIVE investigates

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 ‘A deep and damaging recession looms’

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Today Friday November 6, alongside our Scottish regional secretary Pat Rafferty, I am co-hosting the latest in a series of regional meetings to discuss Unite...

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Halt Rolls-Royce job losses call

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Rolls-Royce urged to use furlough extension until March to safeguard UK jobs under threat

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Caterpillar job losses 'devastating blow'

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite blasts 700 job losses at Caterpillar sites across Northern Ireland as a 'scandalous profit grab'

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'Misery' for deaf communities

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite slams 'opportunistic’ sign language service attacks during pandemic

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Doncaster braced for Christmas bin strikes

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite to ballot refuse worker members over strike action in bullying and harassment dispute

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'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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