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'Millions hanging by a thread'

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Don’t take that sharp right, Chancellor.  Work with those in business and the workplaces, the experts in defending and creating jobs, and you will take the righ...

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Airliner easyJet announces jobs cull

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Unite: easyJet jobs threat underlines urgent need for government support for UK aviation

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'Don’t sacrifice jobs in rush to exit furlough'

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

“This report bears out what we have been saying for weeks now, that removing the furlough support before business has had a chance to recover even slightly coul...

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‘Never been a more important time’

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

“That’s the case never more so than now and Unite alone has put on many thousands of new members since the lockdown. 

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Safe work, safe travel, strong unions

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

WATCH: New film explains all you need to know about a safe return to work

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Steel industry vital for 'sustained economic recovery'

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

Unite joins Labour call for steel industry support amid crisis

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Jobs tsunami this summer?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Responding to speculation that the chancellor Rishi Sunak will soon use a statement to detail changes to the job retention scheme (JRS), Unite has urged the gov...

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Agency workers pay victory

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Employment agency workers contracted to provide refuse collection services in Sandwell, West Midlands, are being paid 100 per cent of their wages during lockdow...

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Rescue plan welcomed

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Unite welcomes news of ‘Birch Project’ rescue plan to save businesses and jobs

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‘Betrayal of workers – and of Britain’

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Unite launched a major UK wide campaign on Friday May 22 against British Airways’ (BA) opportunistic plans to use the Covid-19 pandemic to betray thousands of s...

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Unite launches BA campaign

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

Major Unite campaign to oppose British Airways’ betrayal of Britain

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

UniteLive highlights the latest ‘heroes and zeroes’ amid coronavirus epidemic

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'Totally unacceptable'

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment

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‘Victory for fair-minded British people’

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

But late yesterday afternoon, thanks to Unite, action the PM made an astonishing U-turn –saying the charge for overseas NHS and care workers will be removed.

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It’s good to talk

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

We need a new way to organise to keep our members in touch with the union when they are no longer at work. Indeed, even those who are lucky enough to be in work...

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Ministers are at ‘sixes and sevens’

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Unite said that the £1.6bn government bailout - a combination of grant and loans -  for Transport for London (TfL), after the dramatic slump in passenger number...

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Clarks to slash jobs

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Shoemaker Clarks job losses ‘bitter blow’ for Somerset workers

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‘Mean-spirited and shabby’

Thursday, May 21st, 2020

Unite said the hypocrisy of the prime minister was given extra piquancy as he singled out two non-UK  nurses – one from New Zealand and the other from Portugal ...

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