news-analysis

Heathrow’s staff pay cuts 'owes more to boardroom greed than this virus'

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

Horrific pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of debt and excessive paymen...

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‘A poverty of ambition’

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

Prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge that every UK home will be powered by electricity from offshore wind farms by 2030 revealed ‘a poverty of ambition’, compa...

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Bad day for the finance sector

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

In another bad day (October 6) for the finance sector job losses are announced in finance firm LV and JN bank. The moves have been roundly condemned by Unite.

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Stop the ‘no deal car crash’

Friday, October 2nd, 2020

Ministers need to put their foot on the accelerator to get a deal with the EU that safeguards the UK automotive industry – employing about 800,000 workers direc...

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Chaos looms as drivers slam govt over ports paperwork Brexit shambles

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

Angry lorry drivers have accused government minister Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of ‘blame shifting’ as he tells them to prepare paperwor...

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Covid smokescreen used to slash pay

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020

Unite has launched an international campaign today (September 9) to stop the owners of the Manchester bus company Go North West from using Covid-19 as cover for...

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Govt failure to support industry is ‘green light’ to sack workers says Unite

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

Aviation workers from two companies which have made brutal cuts on the back of the Covid-19 pandemic are bringing their call for the government to provide long-...

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Apprenticeship 999

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020

The future of the UK’s world class base of highly skilled workers is now at great risk, Unite, other unions and employers warned yesterday (August 31).

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Save our world class workers

Friday, August 28th, 2020

“Labour believes in our incredible workforce so why can’t the government?  It’s simple – building our Royal Naval Fleet Support Ships here in UK shipyards is es...

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Govt’s ‘scrimping’ could cost lives

Friday, August 28th, 2020

Thirteen quid a day. Not a lot really when you take your bills, outgoings, kids’ school uniforms, gas – not to mention food – into account. It all adds up to ea...

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Meat plant deep clean after new Covid cluster found

Friday, August 21st, 2020

After 35 staff tested positive for the virus the pork meat processing plant will now close for a deep clean this weekend. It’s understood testing and tracing wi...

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‘Forced out by company greed’

Friday, August 7th, 2020

Today August 7, more than 6,000 BA staff - 4,000 of them being cabin crew, are being forced to leave British Airways, and while the remaining workforce will soo...

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‘Heartless and reckless’ move

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Today (July 29) it was the TUC’s turn to join the ever growing chorus of those highly concerned about pushing extremely vulnerable workers back to the workplace...

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‘Drop opportunistic ‘fire and rehire’ plans’ urges Unite

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Despite its’ actions and plans to sack 12,000 staff and to cut the wages of a further 30,000 workers being roundly condemned by Unite, the public, the Labour Pa...

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Back UK auto-industry – or risk losing it call

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

According to the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), figures released today (July 30) show UK automotive production during the first half of 202...

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waiter tipping tips

Fix broken tipping system now

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Hospitality workers ‘won’t be holding their breath’ over latest gov’t promises on tips legislation

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‘Every death is a tragedy’

Monday, July 20th, 2020

“Independent, credible studies such as ones by the University College London and the University of Oxford and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine hav...

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The struggles of rural poverty

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

Moving to the country might sound idyllic – but poverty in a rural setting is no picnic. We investigate

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