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Covid crunch time talks tomorrow

Monday, July 6th, 2020

Crunch talks are due to take place tomorrow (Tuesday aJuly 7) to resolve health and safety concerns over the lack of Covid-19 prevention measures at the Crayfor...

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Avert construction apprenticeship crisis call

Monday, July 6th, 2020

The prime minister’s recent promise to ‘build, build, build’ the UK back to economic health will not be ‘get very far’ unless urgent action is taken to avert a ...

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BA should face slots review says angry public

Monday, July 6th, 2020

A new poll out today (July 6) reveals that the British public backs tough action against British Airways over its ‘fire and rehire’ plans – with both Conservati...

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‘They are putting people at risk’

Friday, July 3rd, 2020

When meat processing worker ‘Alex’ tested positive for coronavirus, he was forced to stay off work for a number of weeks, along with the colleagues he shares a ...

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In the line of duty

Friday, July 3rd, 2020

It’s rare for Unite Ireland senior regional organiser Davy Kettyles to watch breakfast TV – he normally listens to Today on Radio 4. But on one fine May morning...

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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’

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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...

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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

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'Not a moment more to be lost'

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

Unite launches new campaign to save UK aerospace

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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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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...

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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

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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

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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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