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Food down a snip, but profits still up

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023

Although news just in may be whispering of a wafer-thin helping of food inflation slowdown – for most of us in the real world your tasty turkey dinner is still ...

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Workers still paying the price

Thursday, August 3rd, 2023

The Bank of England (BoE) announced for the first time today (August 3) that interest rates will stay higher for longer, in an effort, it says to battle soaring...

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Is an NHS pay rise affordable?

Tuesday, December 20th, 2022

UniteLive investigates - and the answer may surprise you

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Renationalise energy and no more budgets for the rich

Monday, September 26th, 2022

Unite GS slams power giant at Scottish policy conference

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Workers to pay 'for massive energy company profits'

Thursday, September 8th, 2022

Unite: Liz Truss’ energy bill plan ‘boosts profiteering’

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The ‘new bold trade unionism’

Friday, July 29th, 2022

GS Sharon Graham’s new take on disputes has certainly led to some unique wins – here paying dividends to low waged bank staff

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Ten giant pay leaps – in just one month

Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Unite is unstoppable when it comes to securing great results for our members

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'Solidarity has paid off'

Friday, March 11th, 2022

UniteLive looks at Unite’s recent victories in workplaces across the UK

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‘Catastrophe for millions of people’

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022

Unite slams Sunak’s feeble energy bill payouts as energy price cap rises dramatically

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Profit-hungry Royal Mail plans to axe 900 jobs

Thursday, January 27th, 2022

You’d think that the Royal Mail would want to celebrate and value its’ staff. After all, didn’t they pull out all the stops for the nation – and earned huge pro...

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Sainsbury’s wage win

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022

Unite has welcomed a decision by Sainsbury’s to pay its low paid staff at least £10 an hour – but reminded the company the increase was still too low to keep up...

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One hundred days of winning for you

Monday, December 6th, 2021

Sharon Graham – elected as Unite general secretary on August 27 has, by December 6, her first 100 days in office, won literally millions of pounds in extra pay ...

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Winning for workers

Monday, December 6th, 2021

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, who has now served her first 100 days in office, has introduced radical changes to the way the union operates, focusing i...

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The ‘deserts’ of debt advice

Monday, November 8th, 2021

The union’s warning coincides with the beginning of this year’s Talk Money Week. Proposals from the Money and Pension Advice Service (MaPS) to slash key debt ad...

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Workers to pay price for pandemic

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021

Sadly Unite’s fears that the government would make workers pay for the pandemic were borne out in Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget statement today (Wednesday Oct...

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‘Climate change is a class issue’

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

As extreme weather events increase with ferocious force; as air pollution claims exponentially more lives; and as crop yields wither in once-abundant regions ar...

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‘Really significant victory’

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021

Following revelations from unions including Unite, that logistics giant XPO boosted executive pay around the same time that UK government furlough payments were...

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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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