Time to be ‘more German’?

Thursday, August 20th, 2020

In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance s...

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easyJet passengers and staff treated 'with complete disregard'

Thursday, August 20th, 2020

Abandoned in Croatia, easyJet passenger shares his holiday nightmare story as Unite stages easyJet protests over regional base closures

5 min

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British Airways heading for 'winter of discontent'

Thursday, August 20th, 2020

Unite warns ‘appalling’ BA that fight to stop its industrial thuggery is stepping up

6 min

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Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to 'come clean' over job cuts

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

Unite slams Alexander Dennis over opportunistic job cuts and Turkey outsourcing plans

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'Jobs for the boys and girls'?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

Unite slams ‘nakedly corrupt display’ as Tory peer with no public health experience appointed leader of PHE successor

7 min

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Council workers reject 'poverty pay' offer

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Unite council workers reject ‘insulting £1.83 a day poverty pay’ offer that will now be imposed

4 min

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PHE lined up to be 'the fall guy'

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Public Health England is being used as a scapegoat for government’s Covid-19 failings

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'Huge kick in the teeth'

Monday, August 17th, 2020

Staff at prestigious Glasgow restaurant The Ivy speak out about bosses’ mistreatment during pandemic

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The ‘fight of our lives’

Monday, August 17th, 2020

With the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced, the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to...

6 min

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Landmark toxic cabin air ruling

Friday, August 14th, 2020

Unite welcomes a US ruling compensating a pilot after being exposed to toxic cabin air

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‘Scandalous’ treatment of airport’s staff

Friday, August 14th, 2020

The treatment of Jersey Airport’s Swissport staff facing 70 per cent redundancies by both the company and the island’s government is ‘scandalous’, Unite said to...

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A sightseer in Beirut

Friday, August 14th, 2020

In the morning the vast inspiring Al Amin Mosque. Heads covered feet bare. Under the chandeliers our whispered voices echoes of centuries.

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, August 14th, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis

10 min

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Luton Airport demo

Thursday, August 13th, 2020

Luton Airport protesters demand chancellor keeps aviation promise and stops regional ‘devastation’

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Industrial action 'on the cards' at housing association

Thursday, August 13th, 2020

Shift pattern changes at Liverpool housing association prompts prospect of industrial action

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'We will not allow our reps to be bullied'

Thursday, August 13th, 2020

Manchester bus workers to hold consultative ballot on industrial action, as rep suspended for carrying out trade union duties

4 min

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Rock-bottom morale

Thursday, August 13th, 2020

As NatWest announces voluntary redundancies, UniteLIVE investigates why so many bank branch staff have had enough

7 min

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UK plunged into recession

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

UK suffers ‘world-beating’ recession worse than any G7 country, as Britain’s excess death toll rises to highest in all Europe

8 min

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