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Manchester Stagecoach bus drivers to vote for strike action

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

Bus passengers in Greater Manchester could face severe disruption if drivers employed by Stagecoach vote for strike action

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Bring back mandatory masks on public transport call

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

Unite and others raise safety concerns as mask-wearing on public transport falls after mandate dropped

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'Members in dispute must be my first priority'

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021

Unite GS Sharon Graham says industrial disputes will take priority over attendance at Labour conference

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Scottish Ambulance Service funding 'welcome' but 'not enough'

Tuesday, September 21st, 2021

Unite welcomes extra support for Scottish Ambulance Service but warns it ‘will not be enough’

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Manchester Metrolink strikes off

Tuesday, September 21st, 2021

Manchester Metrolink strikes suspended as workers secure improved pay offer

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Lorry drivers' hours extension 'reckless'

Tuesday, September 21st, 2021

Unite warns 'law-breaking' fresh extension of lorry drivers' hours brings danger to roads

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Health and Care bill 'Trojan horse' for more NHS privatisation

Tuesday, September 21st, 2021

Government accused of using pandemic as ‘smokescreen’ to push through new health bill

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Stagecoach in Chesterfield 'penny pinching' on pay

Monday, September 20th, 2021

Chesterfield bus passengers face serious disruption if pay strikes at Stagecoach go ahead

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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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