walkers

'Festive crisp famine' warning

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Warrington-based Eddie Stobart drivers on Walkers contract ballot for industrial action

3 min

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Workers must have a collective say over economic recovery

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite AGS Steve Turner calls for national recovery council where workers lead the way

7 min

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Chancellor has 'the power and the responsibility to renew our country'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite calls on chancellor to use spending review to fend off mass unemployment and build back a fairer economy

7 min

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Unite GS to chancellor: 'In this time like no other we need action like no other'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020

Unite GS Len McCluskey writes to chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of spending review

6 min

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Who will remember them?

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

On sea beds of the Aegean. Of the Mediterranean.

2 min

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felixstowe docks

PPE logjam scandal

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Gov’t wasting more than £1m a day as 11,000 shipping containers of PPE sit idle at Felixstowe port

6 min

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construction

Stricter measures needed to combat Covid on construction sites

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Unite calls for separate procedures to cover both indoor and outdoor construction work to stop virus transmission

4 min

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'Why is it that we pick the pockets of the least well paid?'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite AGS Gail Cartmail tears to shreds arguments in favour of public sector pay freeze

2 min

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'Kick in the teeth'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite slams government plans after reports of an upcoming public sector pay freeze

7 min

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'Devastating news for E.ON workers'

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Nearly 700 job losses at energy giant E.ON ‘grim news’, says Unite

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Unite statement on Saudi Arabian human rights abuses

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Ahead of G20 summit, Unite and other unions call on UK gov't to raise concerns over human rights abuses by Saudi authorities

3 min

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'Cast iron guarantees' on UK defence spending call

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite cautiously welcomes UK defence spending boost – but warns money must be spent to support and create UK jobs

7 min

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Think tank report touting public sector pay freeze ‘an insult’

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Unite: Government must ‘turn warm words into hard cash’ for public sector workers

4 min

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'Open the toilets to frontline workers'

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

World Toilet Day: Unite national officer Bobby Morton calls on the government to ensure toilet access for all frontline workers

2 min

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'Everybody should have access to a toilet'

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

World Toilet Day: Unite national officer Adrian Jones explains why toilet dignity is so important

2 min

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‘Rights and fights that can and must be won’

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

It’s night time in Wroclaw, south west Poland. It’s dark. The streets are filled with people in face masks holding placards and chanting ‘I think, I feel, I dec...

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'Yet more cronyism and chaos from this Tory government'

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

Spending watchdog reveals PPE suppliers with Tory political connections were ten times more likely to be awarded contracts

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Unite calls for toilet dignity on World Toilet Day

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

UK drivers denied access to toilets with Covid lockdown worsening situation, Unite survey reveals

4 min

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