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Hopes for Euro hols – but govt support vital

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Commenting on reports that popular European travel destinations will be added to a UK government ‘green list’ for holidaymakers by the end of June, Unite nation...

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Dudley Hospital Covid risk shame

Tuesday, May 4th, 2021

Unite is warning because of systematic failures by outsourcing giant Mitie, which holds the facility management contract for the NHS Dudley Hospital Trust, staf...

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'Amazon workers need an independent voice'

Friday, April 30th, 2021

Amazon profits triple amid reports of union busting and poor treatment

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Public 'firmly against' fire and rehire tactics

Friday, April 30th, 2021

New poll shows seven in ten back ban for ‘bully boy’ fire and rehire

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Coffee workers’ terms row May Day demo

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Workers at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ dispute with a protest on Saturday (May 1), followed up with a...

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Failed pay promises

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Biomedical scientists have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing during the past year.

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Deeply disturbing

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Agriculture has long been considered the most dangerous sector in the UK, with fatality rates 18 times the national average.

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Remembered and honoured

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

Tomorrow (Wednesday 28 April) on International Workers’ Memorial Day, Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey, will join Unite families who have lost loved ones ...

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Ministers in soup over pressures on chefs

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Ministers need to tighten up the legislation to stop chefs - one of the groups of employees most hit by Covid-19 – from being pressurised into working more than...

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Hotel workers say no to ‘fire and re-hire’

Monday, April 26th, 2021

Unite, which represents thousands of workers in the hotel sector, held socially distanced demonstrations today (26 April) outside the flagship hotels of Interco...

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Win for Sheffield University Students' Union workers

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Unite victory for workers on zero hours at Sheffield University Students' Union

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“Our members know their worth"

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Engineers at Melrose-owned Brush Electrical in strike ballot over fire and rehire cuts of up to £15,000

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‘No remote sign on. Full stop’

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

London bus operator Metroline has until 10 May to permanently drop its controversial ‘remote sign on’ policy – or it will face a summer of strikes, Unite warned...

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Secret shame of Crossrail’s way to boost profits

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

Unite has learned that secret changes to the way procurement rules operate on the heavily delayed Crossrail project mean that contractors are able to ignore pre...

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JDE 'acting like employer from Victorian times'

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

Summer holidays ban’ for Banbury coffee workers to thwart industrial action in ‘fire and rehire’ row, claims Unite

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Dyson tax text scandal

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

PM’s Dyson tax texts encapsulates ‘lobbying and sleaze’ that failed UK manufacturing workers

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'Slap in the face to long-serving workforce'

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

Unite to fight to save jobs as Argos announces closure of Somerset distribution centre

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NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021

In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation –...

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