Heroes and zeroes

Friday, July 3rd, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid coronavirus crisis

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Following the shocking news that car parts supplier Unipart Automotive has gone into administration, over a thousand Unite members fear the worst for their jobs.

Halt 'rash' GKN Auto redundancies

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Unite: GKN Automotive must use furlough scheme ‘properly’

3 min

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‘Was that it’?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Our ‘Build Back Better’ club acquired an application from a new aspiring member this week: welcome, Prime Minister. I hope that you will take some time to famil...

7 min

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'1930s figures of unemployment'

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Unite AGS Steve Turner: gov’t must step up to defend vital industries and jobs

2 min

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'Not a moment more to be lost'

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Unite launches new campaign to save UK aerospace

6 min

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‘PM, do not abandon working people now in their hour of need’

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.

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easyJet job losses ‘massive blow’

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

Unite, last night (June 30) described the announcement that easyJet is intending to make 1,290 cabin crew redundant and close its hubs at Newcastle, Stansted an...

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Exploitation of migrant workers and coronavirus link must end

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

The link between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts ‘...

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accident and emergency a&e

NHS staff Covid-19 fears for A&E as pubs reopen

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

NHS ambulance and A&E staff are braced ‘with a great deal of trepidation’ for the fall-out from the mass opening of pubs in England on Saturday, Unite warned to...

4 min

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'The scale of this is devastating'

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

Unite AGS Steve Turner: we need sector-specific support to avert a tsunami of job losses

2 min

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'Act of industrial vandalism'

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020

Unite reiterates call for gov’t aerospace support as Airbus announces nearly 2000 job losses

6 min

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Leicester in lockdown

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

Leicester surge in cases raises fear of more local outbreaks

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'Positively Rooseveltian'?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

No new spending plans in PM’s ‘New Deal’ speech as UK faces ‘jobs abyss’

6 min

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nuclear power

‘New era for nuclear power’?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020

The creation of a ‘clean energy hub’ at Moorside in Cumbria could mean a post-pandemic 25,000 jobs bonanza across the north west, Unite said today (Tuesday June...

3 min

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construction

Construction workers 'must not risk their health'

Monday, June 29th, 2020

Unite calls on construction workers to delay work without proper PPE

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'We need to care for our carers'

Monday, June 29th, 2020

Unite welcomes Labour's call for fast-tracked mental health support for health and care workers

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'No going back'

Monday, June 29th, 2020

As PM claims to reject austerity in future recovery plan, poll shows Britons want a different economy post-pandemic

7 min

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UK urgently needs world-leading satellite infrastructure

Friday, June 26th, 2020

Government stake in satellite company welcome but it has to mean UK manufacturing jobs

3 min

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