Chancellor announces changes to furlough scheme
Friday, May 29th, 2020
McCluskey: Furlough changes welcome but fragile economy needs further assistance
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British car production plummets
Friday, May 29th, 2020
UK car industry’s lowest output since Second World War highlights need for gov’t support
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BA betrayal: customers and partners alerted
Friday, May 29th, 2020
This week campaigners have been alerting companies including HCL in Surrey, Barclays in Glasgow, Vodafone in Newbury, Microsoft, in Reading, GSK in Ulverston an...
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London bus workers' safety 'absolutely crucial'
Friday, May 29th, 2020
Unite safety reps to inspect London buses in phased return to front entry
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Boost for post-pandemic economy
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
New nuclear power station construction to create 25,000 jobs
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Production to stay at Nissan Sunderland plant
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Unite warns Nissan Sunderland efficiency savings must not include attacks on jobs or T&Cs
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Airliner easyJet announces jobs cull
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Unite: easyJet jobs threat underlines urgent need for government support for UK aviation
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'Don’t sacrifice jobs in rush to exit furlough'
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
“This report bears out what we have been saying for weeks now, that removing the furlough support before business has had a chance to recover even slightly coul...
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‘Never been a more important time’
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
“That’s the case never more so than now and Unite alone has put on many thousands of new members since the lockdown.
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Steel industry vital for 'sustained economic recovery'
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Unite joins Labour call for steel industry support amid crisis
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Jobs tsunami this summer?
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Responding to speculation that the chancellor Rishi Sunak will soon use a statement to detail changes to the job retention scheme (JRS), Unite has urged the gov...
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Agency workers pay victory
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Employment agency workers contracted to provide refuse collection services in Sandwell, West Midlands, are being paid 100 per cent of their wages during lockdow...
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Unite launches BA campaign
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Major Unite campaign to oppose British Airways’ betrayal of Britain
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'Totally unacceptable'
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment
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‘Victory for fair-minded British people’
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
But late yesterday afternoon, thanks to Unite, action the PM made an astonishing U-turn –saying the charge for overseas NHS and care workers will be removed.
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Ministers are at ‘sixes and sevens’
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Unite said that the £1.6bn government bailout - a combination of grant and loans - for Transport for London (TfL), after the dramatic slump in passenger number...
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Clarks to slash jobs
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Shoemaker Clarks job losses ‘bitter blow’ for Somerset workers
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‘Mean-spirited and shabby’
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
Unite said the hypocrisy of the prime minister was given extra piquancy as he singled out two non-UK nurses – one from New Zealand and the other from Portugal ...
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