'Unionised workplaces are safer workplaces'

Monday, September 14th, 2020

Unite takes part in first TUC debate on safety at work amid Covid-19 pandemic

5 min

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'Amazing victory'

Monday, September 14th, 2020

Topshop's Arcadia retail firm U-turns on redundancy pay after Unite intervenes

3 min

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Chancellor – don’t walk away

Monday, September 14th, 2020

This year’s 152nd TUC conference in London may be very different as it’s being held on line – but the messages trade unions including Unite are making are cryst...

5 min

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‘Chaos and confusion’

Monday, September 14th, 2020

“Given that employers, customs agents and drivers will have to familiarise themselves with complex new border arrangements, it is completely unacceptable that l...

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‘Congress must speak as one on Covid – our class will not pay for another crisis’

Monday, September 14th, 2020

Has the Covid-19 crisis really given us no option other than to brace ourselves for a “necessary period of adjustment”? Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Ba...

6 min

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Early NHS pay rise call

Friday, September 11th, 2020

Unite calls for a ‘well-deserved’ 15 per cent pay rise or £3,000 for NHS staff on the Covid-19 frontline

4 min

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‘Afraid to take sick leave’

Friday, September 11th, 2020

Unite warns Norfolk’s Banham Poultry refusal to provide company sick pay increases risk of another outbreak

4 min

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'Disgraceful behaviour must stop'

Friday, September 11th, 2020

Unite London and Eastern cab section condemns abusive behaviour of London cabbies outside City Hall

3 min

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Momentum grows for furlough scheme extension

Friday, September 11th, 2020

MPs join mounting call for job retention measures to avert employment crisis

4 min

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, September 11th, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid coronavirus crisis

11 min

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'Economic and environmental vandalism'

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Unite slams government denying permission to new open cast coal mine

3 min

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Track and trace doomed to fail unless sick pay raised

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

Majority of workers would face financial hardship if forced to self-isolate on SSP

6 min

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'No more excuses'

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Unite members and MPs demand govt extends furlough scheme

10 min

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Gatwick job losses mount

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

6000 job losses at 'ghost town' Gatwick airport demonstrates devastation in UK aviation

4 min

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FSS SOS

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

A £1.5 billion contract to build Royal Navy fleet solid support ships (FSS) that has been opened to overseas shipyards must go to domestic firms if UK shipbuild...

4 min

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Covid smokescreen used to slash pay

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Unite has launched an international campaign today (September 9) to stop the owners of the Manchester bus company Go North West from using Covid-19 as cover for...

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Unite plea to PM: ‘Don’t abandon us’

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

With Spain becoming the latest country to extend its pay protection scheme “for as long as it takes” – following Germany, the Netherlands and France – the UK go...

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'Do not abandon us'

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Unite reiterates furlough extension call on eve of SOS for Jobs rally, as new figures show UK employers planned 300k redundancies in June and July

8 min

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