Mental health issues surging at work
Friday, April 30th, 2021
Unite director of research John Earls: 'We need stronger trade unions to create healthier, safer workplaces and a fairer post-Covid economy'
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Public 'firmly against' fire and rehire tactics
Friday, April 30th, 2021
New poll shows seven in ten back ban for ‘bully boy’ fire and rehire
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‘All one multi-ethnic working class’
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
In this ‘tale of two cities’ Oxford Unite member Dr Hosnieh Djafari Marbini, re-standing as a city councillor, believes that local people working together can t...
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'More important than ever to vote Labour'
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
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‘An incredible memorial’
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Yesterday (April 28) was Workers’ Memorial Day. As part of the union’s observation of this date when we remember all those who have lost their lives at work, Un...
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Coffee workers’ terms row May Day demo
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Workers at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute with a protest on Saturday (May 1), followed up with a...
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Don’t underestimate our Sarah
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
For Unite member Sarah Murphy, who is standing as a Welsh Labour candidate for the Bridgend constituency at the Senedd election, hard work and trade unionism ar...
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‘The continuing carousel of sleaze and cronyism allegations’
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
There usually comes a time in the life-time of a long-serving government when there is a light bulb moment which turns out to be terminal for its popularity and...
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‘I’m the most unlikely person to stand’
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Carol Mochan, who’s standing to be a Scottish Labour Party candidate in the Scottish Parliament, may not be your usual career politician - but she’s not going t...
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‘Where’s the hope?’
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Labour councillor Ross Willmott, who’s standing as a Labour candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, has bee...
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'I am living it and I care'
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Nikki Coles, a Unite Community member, who has lived in Fratton, Portsmouth for the past nine years describes herself as just an ordinary mum, but she knows fir...
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Workers suffering mental health ‘epidemic’
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Ahead of tomorrow’s International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28) workers are suffering a mental health ‘epidemic’, a UK and Ireland-wide survey of Unite workp...
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Failed pay promises
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Biomedical scientists have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing during the past year.
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Deeply disturbing
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Agriculture has long been considered the most dangerous sector in the UK, with fatality rates 18 times the national average.
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Remembered and honoured
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Tomorrow (Wednesday 28 April) on International Workers’ Memorial Day, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, will join Unite families who have lost loved ones ...
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Outlaw ruthless ‘fire and rehire’ practices
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Fire and rehire has been described by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey as being a ‘disease that’s ripping through our workplaces’.
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Ministers in soup over pressures on chefs
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Ministers need to tighten up the legislation to stop chefs - one of the groups of employees most hit by Covid-19 – from being pressurised into working more than...
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Hotel workers say no to ‘fire and re-hire’
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hotel sector, held socially distanced demonstrations today (26 April) outside the flagship hotels of Interco...
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