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Nuclear funding plan call

Monday, September 20th, 2021

Energy unions issue call for nuclear funding plan to be brought forward

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Weetabix engineers to strike

Monday, September 20th, 2021

Weetabix engineers to fight fire and rehire threat with strike action

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Tesco drivers and warehouse workers reject pay offer

Friday, September 17th, 2021

Lorry drivers and warehouse workers at four Tesco distribution centres have rejected a below inflation pay offer. If members vote for strike action, Tesco’s shelves will quickly become empty this winter, potentially affecting the Christmas period, Unite, the UK’s leading union, has warned

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'We can win on fire and rehire'

Friday, September 17th, 2021

Unite ramps up campaign to fight fire and rehire with national day of action

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Work and pensions secretary 'lives on a different planet'

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021

DWP secretary Thérèse Coffey slammed for suggesting families facing Universal Credit cut should simply work longer hours

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TUC Congress highlights

Monday, September 13th, 2021

Monday's highlights from Unite speakers

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Unite GKN members announce all-out strike to save jobs

Monday, September 13th, 2021

Members of Unite employed at the GKN Drivelines factory in Erdington Birmingham, have announced that they will begin an all-out continuous strike action later t...

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'Reps are part of our movement'

Monday, September 13th, 2021

Unite AGS Diana Holland highlights vital importance of union equality reps at TUC 2021

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‘Fire and rehire is an abhorrence’

Monday, September 13th, 2021

“Our priority must be to co-ordinate a fightback at the work place. We have all shown that fire and rehire can be beaten. At British Airways, we stopped the wor...

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Manchester tram drivers vote to strike

Monday, September 13th, 2021

Manchester faces severe disruption as tram drivers vote for strikes over pitiful pay offer

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‘Climate change is here – right now’

Sunday, September 12th, 2021

“Colleagues, nobody in this virtual hall is going to disagree on the scale of the challenge ahead. Climate change is not somebody else’s problem, an issue for t...

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Leeds taxi rank protest

Friday, September 10th, 2021

‘Intolerable obstacles’ at Leeds station face disabled and elderly travellers as taxi rank is set to move, Unite warns

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'A cruel hypocrisy'

Friday, September 10th, 2021

Tories vote against Coventry council supporting the Right to Food campaign

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'All rights to all workers from day one'

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

Unite backs new law to close employment loopholes by providing universal workers’ rights

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'Fair day's pay for hard day's work'

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

North West Argos lorry drivers secure bumper pay increase

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Weetabix workers 'will not accept fire and rehire'

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021

Weetabix workers in Northamptonshire announce autumn walkouts over £5,000 fire and rehire wage cuts

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'Our members stood firm'

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

Shropshire wheel factory workers hail victory in pay dispute

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Tax raid on young and low-paid workers

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

Unite calls for wealth tax and higher care worker wages as PM announces manifesto-busting NI tax to fund health and social care

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