Return to austerity?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Gov’t accused of hypocrisy after chancellor urges public sector pay ‘restraint’ and warns of cuts to come

7 min

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waiter tipping tips

Fix broken tipping system now

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Hospitality workers ‘won’t be holding their breath’ over latest gov’t promises on tips legislation

6 min

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easyJet staff 'losing faith' in airline

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

easyJet staff to stage airport demonstrations after voting no confidence in COO

4 min

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'Save our Jobs' call

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Unite hospitality members stage socially distanced demos in defence of their jobs

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Millions of public sector workers denied pay rise

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Care, local authority workers and most NHS staff left out of pay award despite working through pandemic

6 min

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steel tariffs

Protect our steel jobs call

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Speculation has emerged that Tata is in talks with the UK government to replace the plant’s blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces as a condition of its inve...

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UK govt ‘not doing enough’

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Unite has commented on business secretary Alok Sharma’s new announcement today (July 20) of £200m worth of grants for the aerospace industry – saying that despi...

3 min

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‘Fighting back against tyranny’

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunc...

6 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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Southbank Centre support call

Friday, July 17th, 2020

No financial support for the Covid-19 hit Southbank Centre would be ‘a national disgrace'

3 min

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Unite: Govt must ‘step up to the plate’

Friday, July 17th, 2020

Unite is urging the government and industry’s major employers to step up to the plate and act responsibly to save jobs, invest in skills and employee developmen...

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Scrap ‘queen of the skies’ call

Friday, July 17th, 2020

Unite believes that while the 747 jet is held in high regard, it is now time for the ‘queen of the skies’ to relinquish her throne. The entire aviation industry...

4 min

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, July 17th, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus pandemic

9 min

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'They're left totally in the dark'

Friday, July 17th, 2020

In part two of our series on rural poverty, we highlight the plight of migrant workers

10 min

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appledore shipyard

Buyers seek to purchase Appledore

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Expected re-opening of Appledore shipyard vindication of Unite’s campaign

3 min

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UK payrolls dwindle by 640,000 under lockdown

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Pressure builds on Chancellor to act as job loss crisis grows

5 min

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Here’s why you should fix the apprenticeship levy, Chancellor

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their ...

7 min

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More BBC job losses announced

Wednesday, July 15th, 2020

Latest round of BBC job losses is deplored by Unite

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