Covid crunch time talks tomorrow
Monday, July 6th, 2020
Crunch talks are due to take place tomorrow (Tuesday aJuly 7) to resolve health and safety concerns over the lack of Covid-19 prevention measures at the Crayfor...
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Avert construction apprenticeship crisis call
Monday, July 6th, 2020
The prime minister’s recent promise to ‘build, build, build’ the UK back to economic health will not be ‘get very far’ unless urgent action is taken to avert a ...
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Halt 'rash' GKN Auto redundancies
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Unite: GKN Automotive must use furlough scheme ‘properly’
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easyJet job losses ‘massive blow’
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
Unite, last night (June 30) described the announcement that easyJet is intending to make 1,290 cabin crew redundant and close its hubs at Newcastle, Stansted an...
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Exploitation of migrant workers and coronavirus link must end
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
The link between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts ‘...
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NHS staff Covid-19 fears for A&E as pubs reopen
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
NHS ambulance and A&E staff are braced ‘with a great deal of trepidation’ for the fall-out from the mass opening of pubs in England on Saturday, Unite warned to...
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'Act of industrial vandalism'
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
Unite reiterates call for gov’t aerospace support as Airbus announces nearly 2000 job losses
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Leicester in lockdown
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
Leicester surge in cases raises fear of more local outbreaks
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'Positively Rooseveltian'?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
No new spending plans in PM’s ‘New Deal’ speech as UK faces ‘jobs abyss’
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‘New era for nuclear power’?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
The creation of a ‘clean energy hub’ at Moorside in Cumbria could mean a post-pandemic 25,000 jobs bonanza across the north west, Unite said today (Tuesday June...
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Construction workers 'must not risk their health'
Monday, June 29th, 2020
Unite calls on construction workers to delay work without proper PPE
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'We need to care for our carers'
Monday, June 29th, 2020
Unite welcomes Labour's call for fast-tracked mental health support for health and care workers
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'No going back'
Monday, June 29th, 2020
As PM claims to reject austerity in future recovery plan, poll shows Britons want a different economy post-pandemic
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UK urgently needs world-leading satellite infrastructure
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Government stake in satellite company welcome but it has to mean UK manufacturing jobs
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Inquiry into Covid-19 worker death rates call
Friday, June 26th, 2020
ONS report on Covid-19 worker deaths increases concerns about inequality and working practices
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London cash boost call
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Ministers urged to step in to revive London’s economy
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'Second spike' danger warning
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Unite calls for action on public transport to prevent second spike
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Council services under pressure as people flock to beaches
Friday, June 26th, 2020
Unite warns of ‘Dominic Cummings effect’ and calls for extra council funding
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