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NHS mental health crisis

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

Unite rep and clinical psychologist Dr Kathryn Lloyd-Williams explores mental health impact of Covid-19 on NHS teams

6 min

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'Beacon of hope'

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick workers rejoice in 'watershed moment' after their campaign pays off and historic site is saved

8 min

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‘It’s your voice we want to hear’

Monday, January 4th, 2021

Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelin...

4 min

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'A fight for our lives'

Thursday, December 17th, 2020

Unite member and award-winning campaigner Hilda Palmer tells UniteLIVE about her decades-long fight for safer workplaces

10 min

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'Enough is enough'

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Heathrow strike gains momentum as Unite stages car rally

6 min

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It shouldn’t happen to a vet

Thursday, December 10th, 2020

When you think about veterinary surgeries it most likely conjures up images similar to James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. Of a friendly and harmonio...

5 min

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'Do the decent thing'

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020

Chancellor faces renewed pressure to keep Universal Credit increase as new poll shows widespread support for the uplift

7 min

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'We really don't know how we survived'

Friday, November 27th, 2020

At the height of the pandemic at Whittington Hospital, photographer Slater King unearths stories of grief, trauma and triumph

10 min

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‘Rights and fights that can and must be won’

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

It’s night time in Wroclaw, south west Poland. It’s dark. The streets are filled with people in face masks holding placards and chanting ‘I think, I feel, I dec...

8 min

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A Phoenix for Christmas Dinner?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

“We’ve been working against holiday hunger for three and a half years now as a trade union with Unite Community and industrial members. I believe trade unions s...

9 min

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'The only way we will get through this is if we help each other'

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Unite rep Ethnie Abbasali explains why she's got involved with Unite's Christmas Appeal - and why everyone should take part too

7 min

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‘Bringing both sides of the community together’

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. B...

6 min

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Sainsbury's

'We'll be fighting tooth and nail for our members'

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite vows to fight to redeploy all members after Sainsbury’s announces 3,500 job cuts

6 min

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'Skills, confidence and opportunities'

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020

For more than 20 years, the Union Learning Fund has improved people’s life chances. Now it is under threat – here’s how you can help

9 min

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, October 23rd, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis

11 min

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'The most visible, tangible benefit'

Monday, October 19th, 2020

Unite’s education director Jim Mowatt explains why the Union Learning Fund is so vital – and why it must be saved

7 min

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Heroes and zeroes

Friday, October 16th, 2020

UniteLIVE highlights the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis

12 min

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‘Critically overstretched’

Friday, October 16th, 2020

Last week there were upsetting reports in the media of new mums feeling abandoned by their health visitors – a claim that has left our Unite dedicated health vi...

7 min

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